Pinnacle Airlines Corp announced a leadership transition under which John Spanjers, currently chief operating officer of the company, will succeed Sean Menke as chief executive officer, effective June 1, 2012. Spanjers has been COO at Pinnacle since September 2011, and was president of Mesaba Aviation prior to joining Pinnacle.
Aviation Partners Inc. (API) announced the promotion of Gary Dunn to Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Dunn joined API in the mid-1990s to support the Gulfstream II Blended Winglet program, and moved to the sales team in 2001. Dunn has over 20 years of aviation experience in maintenance, engineering, product support, sales and marketing
Canada–based Flying Colours Corp. has appointed Gary Wood as a Corporate Sales & Marketing Representative with immediate effect. Wood will be based at the Peterborough, ON facilities and will be focused on continuing to develop corporate sales and marketing worldwide. The new role has been created to support the sustained and continuous international growth that
Atlas Composites strengthened its Quality Management Team with the recent appointment of Andrew Clarke to the position of Quality Systems Manager. Andrew will succeed John Davie, who joined Atlas Composites in October 2001, and who retires at the end of May as one of its longest serving employees.
United Continental Holdings announced that John Rainey has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer, succeeding Zane Rowe. In his new position, Rainey is responsible for the overall financial operations of the holding company and its operating subsidiaries, including corporate finance, treasury, financial planning and analysis, tax, accounting, investor relations, fleet, procurement, internal
Robert Randall has been appointed to OEM Sales Manager for Universal Avionics. Mr. Randall is affiliated with Universal’s U.S. Midwest Office in Wichita, Kansas with much of his work based out of a satellite office in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr. Randall’s overall responsibility will be developing and maintaining existing sales of Universal’s products to U.S. Original
GAMECO has appointed Mr. Lutz Wierschin as Director of Business Development Component, effective 01 April, 2012. Lutz has over 30 years experience in the aviation industry. His previous assignments were with Lufthansa Airlines, AMECO Beijing, Lufthansa Technik Component Services, Hawker Pacific Aerospace and Jet Aviation. Lutz is a specialist with extensive and diversified knowledge in
Crane announced the appointment of Robert (Bob) Tavares as President of the Electronics Group of Crane Aerospace & Electronics, and David Bender as President of the Aerospace Group of Crane Aerospace & Electronics. Previously, Bender was president of both the Aerospace Group and the Electronics Group.
PAS Technologies appointed David W. Theis as its Vice President, Business Development. In his new role, Mr. Theis assumes direct responsibility for the development of new business opportunities to expand PAS Technologies’ revenue generation for serving commercial, aero, and land-based aero-derivative-engine-repair markets.  Mr. Theis is also responsible for certain non-rotating-equipment-related business development activities in the
Rockton AB announced that Steven Lever has joined the company as Head of Asset Management. He is based at Rockton’s headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Steven has over 20 years’ experience with aircraft leasing and sales. Prior to joining Rockton, he was at Saab Aircraft Leasing for 13 years playing a leading role in the management
