Senior Manager, Airport Development

• Jan 2020 - Present

As part of the senior leadership team of Canada’s only municipally owned airport in the Candian Airport System and Canada’s tenth busiest airport, Geoff is responsible for ‘all things development’. His portfolio includes; Air Service Development, Commercial Development, Business Development, Community Relations, Capital Project Management, and Facility Design Build Management. As part of the senior leadership team of Canada’s only municipally owned airport in the Candian Airport System and Canada’s tenth busiest airport, Geoff is responsible for ‘all things development’. His portfolio includes; Air Service Development, Commercial Development, Business Development, Community Relations, Capital Project Management, and Facility Design Build Management.

Senior Director, Key Accounts

• Oct 2013 - Jan 2020

Invest Alberta - Strategic leadership for industry and economic development and large scale foreign direct investment attraction critical to the implementation of the provincial government's Investment Attraction Strategy. Increasing and diversifying sources of foreign investment. Working with a wide variety of internal and external resources and partners on a local, national, and international basis to attract business, jobs and capital. Responsible for initiating interactions with senior executives of high value, impactful, and investment ready organizations. Provide expertise in identifying issues, opportunities and challenges that impact provincial investment attraction capacity. Manage and ensure that portfolio resources are adequate to develop and lead investment strategies that identify priority markets, sectors, organizations, and key decision makers. Industry Development - Accountable leadership for growth and development of specific industry sectors across the province. Integrating industry intelligence and developing priorities for target sectors. A pathfinder position that opened doors for new strategic relationships in multiple industry sectors. Ensuring strategic guidance, alignment and integration within the provincial government, federal government departments and related industry stakeholders. Guiding growth and attraction initiatives through the negotiation of partnerships and engagements with MNE’s and development of agreements with foreign partners. Aerospace & Defence - Management of projects to ensure industry sector development, market access, growth and competitiveness. Monitoring of the allocation of funds across projects, reporting of outcomes and benefits. . The provincial governments subject matter expert on issues relating to the provincial, national and international aerospace and defence strategies and their implementation. Show less

Managing Director

• 2006 - Oct 2019

Leads the overall day to day management of AeroNautical Ltd. an experienced Aviation and Marine technical support company with an extensive range of technical and maintenance management expertise. Leading a team of managers and technical professionals who fully comprehend the needs and requirements of the challenging and high paced Aviation and Super Yacht markets. Directing high value multi-million dollar projects simultaneously in remote locations while understand the necessities of the customers requirements and manage the relevant teams to continually deliver high quality personal service. From a head office based in Canada, AeroNautical operates internationally through locally based technical support professionals, providing experienced technical support to companies and individuals on a global scale with the added advantage of local knowledge and international networks. Servicing the mixed and rotary wing Commercial and Executive Aircraft & Super Yacht Markets and providing operational and project management of large scale technical and maintenance projects including; new build project management, import and export of commercial and corporate aircraft, maintenance input management, lease contract negotiation and review, technical records management and reviews of maintenance operations within regulatory and governmental processes for the aviation, marine and lease finance industries. Show less

Managing Director

• Oct 2004 - Oct 2013

Leads the day to day operations of Aerotech International Ltd. which services the commercial aircraft and aviation maintenance industries. An experienced aviation consultancy company offering a wide range of technical expertise. Acquisition support for new or pre-owned aircraft, checking lease conditions, lease return project management, implanted maintenance and airline management consultancy services, aircraft import and export to and form all jurisdictions. Leads the day to day operations of Aerotech International Ltd. which services the commercial aircraft and aviation maintenance industries. An experienced aviation consultancy company offering a wide range of technical expertise. Acquisition support for new or pre-owned aircraft, checking lease conditions, lease return project management, implanted maintenance and airline management consultancy services, aircraft import and export to and form all jurisdictions.

Business Unit Leader - Director

• Jun 2003 - Apr 2007

Leading the business unit at executive level and a board member for Canada’s number one defense contractor at SPAR Aerospace. Managing multidiscipline teams of management, technical and support personnel in a project management environment within an aircraft maintenance and engineering overhaul facility. Developed and led efficiency improvement processes increasing productivity by 20%. Developed and led lean and continual improvement processes to reduce aircraft input timelines and increase overall maintenance capacity. Led the company in the development and implementation of a monumental change program to restructure and increase its competitiveness. Encouraging process and procedural change while increasing all the business units profitability. Developed and executed strategic initiatives for the Business Unit and the company including change of product focus to include manufacturing processes by way of diversifying from solely traditional company repair oriented practices. Show less

Line Station Manager

• Oct 2000 - Jun 2003

Oversaw KLM’s London Heathrow airport operations through management and supervisory teams, planning and monitoring milestones, costs, labour tracking, licensing, and training requirements to support over company and customer airlines. Managerial responsibility for 40 staff members plus contracted personnel in support of company operations. Through a targeted growth plan coordinated and built KLM’s London Heathrow station into a critical profit centre, and the largest facility outside of the airlines’ headquarters. Responsible for leading the acquisition of a major middle eastern airline and amalgamating services for Gulf Air into KLM’s system. Developed and led the increased staffing and workloads establishment required to support the growth in operations through a radical and effective change management process. Show less

Maintenance Manager

• Aug 1998 - Oct 2000

Bay Manager -Licensed Engineer

• 2000 - 2000

Licensed Aircraft Engineer

• 2000 - 2000

Aircraft Maintenance Engineer

• 2000 - 2000