14:00 - 15:00
Amit Tyagi
CTO, Acumen Aviation
Amit joined Acumen in 2009. His responsibility as Chief Technical Officer is to ensure all the projects are executed exceeding clients’ expectations. Before joining Acumen, Amit worked in various Engineering roles in Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Air Deccan, SpiceJet and Indigo. He is an Associate Member of Aeronautical Society of India and have passed AMAeSI Exams and is holding a B.E. Aeronautical (Avionics) Degree. He holds a Bachelor in Science and Basic Licence of AME including Electrical, Instruments & Radio Navigation. Amit is a candidate appraiser in ISTAT appraiser program.
Tony Whitty
Managing Director,Air Partner
Tony started his career in aircraft remarketing in 1990. Tony has been based both in Europe and the USA and has achieved considerable success in aircraft remarketing on behalf of a variety of airline and financial sector clients. His experience includes success in many different aircraft types including wide and narrow-bodied jets, regional and commuter turbo-prop aircraft and freighters.
In 1998 Tony became one of the founder members of Cabot Aviation, an aircraft remarketing company based near London Gatwick Airport. Cabot Aviation represents aircraft owners as an their exclusive remarketing agent and also undertakes acquisition mandates on behalf of airlines, lessors and spares companies. It also assists airlines in sourcing aircraft on wet lease. In May 2015 Cabot was acquired by Air Partner PLC.
Igor Panshin
Deputy CEO, Sales & Planning,ENGINEERING of S7 Group
Deputy CEO – Sales & Planning at ENGINEERING The Aviation Maintenance Holding
Igor Panshin is the Deputy CEO for Sales and Planning at ENGINEERING - The Aviation Maintenance Holding – a managing company of two leading Russian MRO’s - S7 Engineering and Sibir Technics.
Before joining ENGINEERING team in 2012, Igor has been working on the Maintenance and Engineering aspects of fleet renovation and aircraft transaction programs for S7 Group since 2003. He has managed over 100 aircraft acquisitions, sales & transactions projects and gained priceless industry experience dealing with major Aircraft Manufacturers, Airlines, Lessors and numerous MRO’sin Europe, Asia, USA and Canada.
• Outlook of India, Russia aviation market development
• What are unique challenges in these regions respectively?
• Potential markets to absorb used aircrafts from China?
• How for Chinese lessors to penetrate into these growing markets?
• Repossession risks
Moderator : Tony Whitty, Head of Aircraft Remarketing & ACMI, Air Partner