Patee Sarasin is the Chief Executive Officer of Nok Air, the truly Thai low fare airline.    Patee received his secondary education in England at Kings School, Canterbury, and then spent his college years in the U.S.A., receiving a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and Computer Science...

Began aviation career as a pilot with the Republic of Singapore Air Force. Flew multi-engine turboprop and jet aircraft. Was Chairman of the Flying Control Committee of Asian Aerospace 2002. Prior to current position, was Head of Operations at Jetstar Asia and Viva Macau. Was COO of Jetstar...

Dermot Mannion is the Deputy Chairman of Royal Brunei Airlines.  He was appointed by the Brunei Ministry of Finance in 2010 to lead the corporate restructuring of the business at the country's flag carrier. Prior to that he was Chief Executive Officer of Aer Lingus, where he successfully...

Andrew Cowen is Chief Executive Officer for HK Express, Hong Kong’s one-and-only low-fare airline. Andrew provides strategic direction for the airline, leading and growing the team through the transition from full service carrier to a low-cost carrier (LCC).  With a targeted fleet number of 30 by...

H. Sammy Aramaki is the Vice President - Innovation & IT Strategy for All Nippon Airways (ANA), the Japanese leading 5-star airline, for 3 years. Before that he served ANA for 24 years in various management positions. During his tenure as the VP of Innovation & IT Strategy with the...

Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has appointed Dr. Jassim Haji as the Director of Information Technology Division since August 2011. Dr Haji has been instrumental in implementing some key innovations at Gulf Air’s IT systems and processes in recent times, most notably, the...

Patrick Fennell is a seasoned airline industry executive with over 20 years of operational expertise gained around the globe. He has a wide-ranging skill-set developed at almost a dozen airlines in every business model from LCC to 'legacy', and charter to cargo and VIP.To-date, he has been...

Kamal Hingorani currently serves as Sr. Vice President & Head InFlight Services and Customer Experience at SpiceJet. He heads InFlight department, Catering and Customer Experience, the last one entailing all customer touch points across SpiceJet network.Prior to the above role, Kamal has served ...

Yanik joined IATA in May 2011 where he was accountable for leading and coordinating the development of new solutions and new Industry services  He has over 25 year’s airline experience, most of which at British Airways where he began as Senior Manager Revenue Management in 1996. From 1999 to...

Mr. Harry Teng currently serves as the Chief Information Officer of V Air.  Prior to joining V Air, he worked primarily in the technology sector, including companies, such as Yahoo, Expedia, and Microsoft.  He also has 8 years of experiences working as a management consultant for global clients in...

Managing Director Sirinun Jiradilok leads the 35 IT and Payment Solutions team. In this role, Sirinun has overall responsibility for the team's accomplishment in IT initiatives for the Nok Airline including technical integration; applications development for; Reservation...

Stanley KAN Ho Yin, Director of Service Delivery Department of Hong Kong Airlines Limited and Managing Director of Hong Kong Aviation Ground Services Limited, has engaged in the airline industry for 20 years. His career began in 1995 and soon covered various fields including ground...

Yevgeniya is a graduate of Karaganda State University named after E. A. Buketov and holds diplomas in foreign languages and law. She joined Air Astana in October 2002, as Executive Assistant to the President.Since September 2005, she has been the head of the HR Department, which also oversees the...

Steven has 18 years of airline and consultancy experience, 10 of these with Low Cost Carriers, primarily in senior Commercial roles. Having worked across the world with start-ups, turnarounds and established leading airlines, Steven’s specialist areas include sales and distribution, revenue...

From a childhood in the iconic French Riviera to being the mobile director of Nok Airlines in Bangkok. Cheese, travel and technology have always been a big part of Jerome’s life. Raised in France by an Italian father and a Spanish mother, he is of a quiet international and multicultural...

Pradeepa Kekulawala is a senior human resource development professional in the corporate sector with over 2 decades of managerial experience behind him. He has been holding key management positions in the disciplines of project management, general management, marketing and business development...

Akira Mitsumasu joined Japan Airlines in 1989, and has previously been responsible in the company for passenger services, network planning, international affairs, business development in China and internal auditing, before taking on the role from June 2014 as VP for marketing and strategy of...

Shakeel Adam is Managing Director of Germany-based international aviation consultancy Aviado Partners which assists airlines across a range of issues including M&A, start-ups and turnarounds as well specific topics such as network & fleet planning, alliances and partnerships, and revenue...