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2001
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Judging Pane! Pierre Jeanniot Pierre Jeanniot has led the International Air Transport Association as its director general since January 1993. This was preceded by a 35-year career with Air Canada, which cul minated in him becoming the airline's president and chief executive in 1984. Jeanniot's tenure at Air Canada included executive positions in sales, marketing, technical, information services, planning, plus subsidiary companies. Brian Rowe Brian Rowe started his engine career in 1947 with de Havilland Engines. He joined GE in 1957, positions at which included engineering manager of GE's Lynn, Massachusetts, engine programmes; CF6 general manager; VP and general manager of commercial engine projects; president and CEO of GE Aircraft Engines and senior VP of the General Electric Company. He retired as chairman of GE Aircraft Engines in February 1995. Rowe is now chairman of Atlas Air Klaus Koplin As chief executive of Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities, Klaus Koplin has spearheaded the development of that organi sation. Koplin started his career in 1968 with the German aviation administration, Luftfahrt-Bundesamt Braunschweig. He remained there until he joined the JAA in 1995, after positions including certification engineer for sailplanes and airships, chief of the section for certificating aircraft and rotorcraft, chief of the enaineerina division and director of the authority. Dart Martinec Avionics specialist Dan Martinec joined Annapolis, Maryland-based ARINC in 1976 after four years with the US Air Force where he worked with experimental digital flight control systems. Martinec is ARINC's director of avionics engineering, and chairman of the Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee, where he is responsible for overseeing the preparation of ARINC avionics standards. Previous positions with ARINC include research work in the aircraft and vehicles division. Eugene Schwarting Eugene Schwarting retired last year after a career at avionics manufacturer Rockwell Collins which began in 1962. His last position there was director of strategic management where he was responsible for long-range industry and technology fore casting. Prior to that, Schwarting was director of product management where he was responsible for the planning, intro duction and management of the business product lines. Sergei Sikorsky Son of aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky, Sergei Sikorsky grew up with aviation, watching his father designing and building the Sikorsky flying boats. During World War II Sikorsky served as a helicopter mechanic in a joint Coast Guard, Navy and RAF heli copter detachment based at Floyd Bennett Field, New York. In 1951, Sikorsky joined United Aircraft, working on S-55 production in Japan, introduction of the S-58 in Germany and the S-64 'Flying Crane' prototype. He returned to Sikorsky in the USA in 1975 and retired as VP SDecial Droiects in 1992. Giinther Matschnigg Since September 1999 Gunther Matschnigg has been VP of the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Operations and Infrastructure division, where he is responsible for develop ing a safe global airtransport infrastructure. Matschnigg joined IATA after four years as VP maintenance at Austrian Airlines, hav ing amassed 20 years of technical aviation expertise which included being deputy head of technical and operational affairs in Austria's Federal Ministry of Transport. He has served exten sively on IATA and JAA committees. Derek McLauchlan Best known as the UK's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) first chief executive (1991 -1997), Derek McLauchlan started his career in the satellite industry. The air traffic control phase of his life began in 1989 when he joined NATS as director gen eral for projects and engineering. On retiring from NATS in 1997 he established the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO). McLauchlan retired in February. Chris Tarry Aerospace analyst Chris Tarry joined his current employer Commerzbank, in London, in May 1999 after nearly 11 years as an analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Securities. Tarry became an analyst in 1984 focusing on engineering in aviation, switching in 1986 to work on air transport and airlines. Since then Tarry has regularly been ranked among the top three European transport analysts and has led a number of major international airtransport share issues. David Todd Space industry specialist David Todd is space analyst at London-based aviation loss adjuster Airclaims, which also sup plies databases, publications, consultancy and legal services to the aerospace industry. Todd's main role at Airclaims is editing the SpaceTrak database, which is used by space and insurance companies worldwide, in addition to contributing to the com pany's Blueprint publication and www.space-launcher.com. Todd has nreviouslv worked in enaineerina. teachina and iournalism. «• JackOlcott John "Jack" Olcott joined the US National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) as its president in May 1992 following almost 20 years as an aviation journalist. Olcott's aviation career started in 1962 withLinden Flight Service in New Jersey, where he rose to the position^ VP From 1966 to 1968 he was a flight research specialist assigned to Kanpur, India. He moved into journalism in 1975 joining Flying magazine as senior editor, becoming editor of Business and Commercial Aviation three years later, where he remained until joining NBAA. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL Ron Woodard Best known as president of Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group, Ron Woodard left the manufacturer after a 32-year career in June 1999. Woodard's positions at Boeing included president of Boeing de Havilland, VP and general manager of the Renton and the materiel divisions, and culminated in head ing up the commercial aircraft operations. Woodard is now president and CEO of MagnaDrive, which he co-founded in June 1999. He is also a director of Atlas Air. •
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