GUY ANTOGNELLI - Director - Monaco Government Tourist and Convention Autrhority

Born in Monaco, Guy Antognelli shares the love of his country and an insatiable curiosity of others and new experiences. After studying economics at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis concluded with a DESS in Financial Engineering; GUY ANTOGNELLI began his career with the Back Office Titres of the Monegasque subsidiary of a private bank in Switzerland; he then joined the Risks and Internal Audit department of the same bank. For the next 10 years he contributed to the development of an insurance firm in the Principality, first as a client manager and then as an agency manager. On this occasion, he was able to show his full sense of contact and service to a high-level international clientele requiring tailor-made products. In 2011, he seized the opportunity to participate in the tourist influence of Monaco by moving to the position of head of the Statistics Department of the Tourism and Congress of the Principality of Monaco. He has since contributed to developing and reorienting the missions of this service, which has since been in charge not only of statistics, but also of strategic and competitive intelligence, but also of tourism foresight. Appointed Assistant to the Director in 2015, he is since February 2019 Director of this structure whose missions are multiple: Ensuring the promotion of the destination abroad, Welcoming visitors to the Principality, Bring all the necessary assistance via its Convention Bureau to the organization of events on the territory.
YANNICK ASSOUAD - CEO - Latécoère
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Yannick Assouad is Chief Executive Officer of Latécoère since November 2016.
Mrs Assouad is a graduate of the InstitutNational des Sciences Appliquéesand earned a PhD at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
She joined Thomson CSF in 1986, where she was head of the thermal and mechanical analysis group until 1998.
From 1998 to 2003, Mrs Assouad served first as Engineering Vice President and then as Chief Executive Officer of Secan, a subsidiary of Honeywell Aerospace, before being appointed Chairman of Honeywell Secan.
In 2003, she joined Zodiac Aerospace, initially as Chief Executive Officer of IntertechniqueServices, a position she held until 2008. Appointed to Zodiac Aerospace’s Executive Committee that same year, Mrs Assouad organized the group’s Services business segment, which she headed until 2010, when she was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Aircraft Systems segment. In May 2015, she became the first Chief Executive Officer of Zodiac Cabin, a newly created segment of Zodiac Aerospace, merging 2 former segments Galleys & Equipment and Cabin Systems.
She became a member of the executive board of Zodiac Aerospacein October 2015.
PIETER BOOTSMA - EVP Commercial & Revenue - Air France KLM

​Born in 1969, Pieter D. Bootsma is a graduate of the Technical University of Twente and holds a PhD in Business Engineering & Management Science. He is also an alumnus of Columbia University (USA) and IMD (High Performance Leadership, Singapore).
Pieter Bootsma has 25+ years’ experience in commercial airline industry and has held top management positions in both KLM and AirFrance KLM Group. He achieved repeated success in maximizing revenues, optimizing network positioning, negotiating and building joint ventures, development and implementation of commercial strategy and innovation for AirFrance KLM (digital, distribution, customer interaction and loyalty management).
He was a member of the Airline Tariff Publishing Company board of directors (Washington, USA) (2004 – 2009) and a member of the KLM Executive Committee (2011 – 2013).
Pieter Bootsma is Executive Vice President Commercial & Revenue for Air France-KLM Group (since 2018); Chairman of the board of directors of Transavia France (since 2013); a member of Air France board of directors (since 2016); and a member of Air France KLM Group Executive Committee (since 2013).
Pieter Bootsma is married and lives with his wife and four children in Haarlem, the Netherlands. He loves sailing, football and running.
DIDIER BRECHEMIER - Global Head - Roland Berger

Didier Bréchemier joined Roland Berger in 2005 in the Aerospace & Transportation Competence Center in Paris. He conducts strategy and performance improvement projects for French and international rail & urban transport, air transport & logistics, business development, due diligence projects, positioning strategy and transformation programs. He utilizes proven methodologies and coaching to help some of the most important firms in his sector confront their challenges.
Didier started his career at Air Liberté/British Airways and worked at Bureau Veritas and KPMG Consulting before joining Roland Berger. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering with a major in Aeronautics, two Master’s degrees in Auditing & Financial Controlling and Organizational Engineering, an MBA from IAE Paris Sorbonne and a professional pilot’s license (ATPL – ENAC).
He is an active participant in academic research in the field of transaction costs and gives lectures at the University of Paris on Revenue Management and Outsourcing Strategy. He is also the Volunteer Executive Chairman at IAM in support of the development of new care solutions with Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).
NICHOLAS E. CALIO  -   President & CEO - Airlines for America

Nicholas E. Calio is president and chief executive officer of Airlines for America (A4A), the trade association for the country’s leading passenger and cargo airlines.
 
Mr. Calio leads the organization, which advocates for America’s airlines as models of safety, customer service and environmental responsibility, and as the indispensable network that
drives nearly $1.5 trillion in U.S. economic activity and more than 11 million U.S. jobs. Prior to joining A4A in January 2011, Mr. Calio was Citigroup’s Executive Vice President for Global Government Affairs, and a member of its Senior Leadership Committee.

Before joining Citigroup, Mr. Calio served as Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs for President George W. Bush and President George H.W. Bush, with primary responsibility for formulating and implementing White House legislative strategy. In 1993, Mr. Calio co-founded O’Brien*Calio, a law and lobbying firm rated by a Fortune Magazine survey as “one of the ten most powerful” in Washington.
 
Mr. Calio is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Ohio Wesleyan University. He also serves on the Board of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. He has received the Excellence in Business Award from the Sons of Italy Foundation; the Business Leadership Award from The Fund for American Studies; and the People Who Move America Award from the Boy Scouts of America.
STEPHAN COPART - Head of Projects and Innovation Financial and Distribution Services - IATA ​

Stephan Copart has over 20 years’ experience in the air transport industry and joined IATA in 2008, based in the Geneva office.
Throughout his career, Stephan has developed expertise in strategy, digital transformation, program management, marketing, sales, and operations through global organizations
Stephan is currently responsible for developing and implementing the innovation strategy of IATA’s Financial and Distribution Services division. Stephan is also responsible for managing IATA’s FDS Project Management Office and Strategic Planning.
Previously, Stephan was managing the Fast Travel program globally. The program is one of the StB initiatives mandated by IATA’s Board of Governors and represents US$ 2.0 billion in annual savings for the airline industry. Fast Travel is a suite of self-service options to add further efficiency to the travel experience from check-in to baggage.
​Before joining IATA, Stephan spent 10 years at IER, one of the leading IT companies for the Air Transport industry. Stephan held a number of senior management positions in France and the UK, including General Manager Northern Europe, Vice President Marketing and Vice President Software Sales.
Prior to IER, Stephan started his career with Air Promotion Group (APG), the world’s leading network for airline services.
LUIS FELIPE DE OLIVEIRA - Executive Director and CEO - ALTA

Luis Felipe is a Chemical Engineer graduated from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro with vast experience in commercial and technical aviation fuel. He is successfully leading ALTA since October 2017 with very positive changes in the organization. Prior to joining ALTA, Luis Felipe served as World Fuel Services’ Vice President Supply Development for Latin America and Caribbean where he was in charge of improving World Fuel’s aviation fuel business in the region. 
 
For 10 years, Luis Felipe served IATA, leading fuel and airport campaigns with governments, oil companies, fuel service providers and airports for the Americas, Africa and the Middle East regions, based in Switzerland. Additionally, he served 12 years at Shell companies with focus in Latin America and the Caribbean, mainly, Africa and Europe, based in Brazil and The Netherlands.  
 
Luis Felipe has a postgraduate in Finance from the University of São Paulo, an MBA from Dom Cabral Foundation in São Paulo, and Post MBA from Kellogg University in Chicago. 
TEWOLDE GEBREMARIAM - Group Chief Executive Officer - Ethiopian Airlines
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​​Tewolde GebreMariam was appointed as Group Chief Executive Officer of Ethiopian Airlines in January 2011. He began his career at Ethiopian in 1985 as Transportation Agent and held a number of senior leadership positions in different divisions in the Airline including Ethiopian Cargo, Area Offices and Sales & Marketing.
In his role as CEO, Mr. Tewolde has been a multiple award winner including ‘African CEO of the Year’, ‘Best African Business Leader’, ‘The Airline Strategy Award for Regional Leadership’ and ‘The Most Gender Focused CEO Award’.
Mr. Tewolde also serves as a member of the High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport with United Nations, Chief Executive Board member of Star Alliance, Board member of International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Airlink Advisory Council. Additionally, he is an Executive Committee member of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA), a member of Board of Directors of Africa Travel Association (ATA) and Board of Directors of Ethiopian Tourism Organization (ETO).
Mr. Tewolde graduated from Addis Ababa University with B.A. Degree in Economics. He earned his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Open University in the United Kingdom. He has received Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters Honoris Causa from Addis Ababa University in July 2019.
CLIVE JACKSON - CEO & Founder of Alyssum Group - CEO & Founder of Victor ​

A highly accomplished and experienced tech entrepreneur, Clive has always been at the forefront of the digital revolution. As a successful innovator of web services and e-commerce platforms, his unique blend of creative vision, technical knowledge and background in corporate finance have enabled him to profitably exploit opportunities across the automotive, technology, media and leisure sectors. Clive has a proven track record of CEO leadership across 15 successive companies and scaling businesses to 140 employees globally. 
Clive’s first business venture was Global Beach which he founded in 1993 as one of the U.K.’s first digital design marketing agencies. With a corporate finance background, Clive studied C and C++ over an 18-month period to become one of the UK’s leading software programmers in his field, developing proprietary platform systems, from file compression, video play back, CRM and encryption to consumer e-commerce platforms. 
Clive founded Autotorq in 2001 to provided Software as a Service to leading automotive manufacturers and their franchises dealer network across 52 companies. Autotorq is a global top five automotive Web Services Company. Clive remains chairman of the business and is currently supporting a management buyout.
In 2011, Clive launched on-demand private jet charter business Victor out of a frustration with the inconveniences of commercial air travel and the lack of transparency in the jet charter industry. Victor revolutionised the jet charter industry with its on-demand, fully-transparent and subscription-free global marketplace. Clive launched Alyssum Group in early 2018 and thereby re-positioned Victor as subsidiary of the group. Through major investment and acquisition Alyssum Group is creating a digital eco-system marketplace servicing the entire aviation community – customers, operators, brokers and suppliers. 
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​THOMAS JAEGER - CEO & Founder - CH-Aviation

​Thomas Jaeger is the CEO and founder of ch-aviation, an airline intelligence provider serving airlines and industry suppliers from the aircraft finance, MRO, IT and airport industries.

​Prior to setting up ch-aviation and turning it from a hobby project into a SME with close to 30 employees and hundred of customers, Thomas served as the Director of Product Management for Mercator Asia, TIK Systems, and Radixx having been in charge of the product road maps of two airline passenger servicing systems and implementing airline IT solutions for dozens of airlines across the globe.
​MIKE PREMO - President & CEO - ARC
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As president and chief executive officer and a member of ARC’s board of directors, Mike Premo leads the company’s strategy in bringing airlines and their agents together to do more business and do it more efficiently. He and his executive team oversee operations for ARC’s traditional accreditation and settlement work and also its rapidly growing data business. Mike became ARC’s president and chief executive officer in June 2011 after serving as the company’s vice president of business development. Mike is certified by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) as a Board Leadership Fellow, its highest designation.  He also serves on the board of directors of Blockskye, a travel industry blockchain company.
Before joining ARC in 2006, Mike served as the senior vice president of global network for TQ3 Travel Solutions and held senior executive positions at Navigant International, TQ3’s parent company. He also served as the president of SatoTravel from 1990 to 1999. Having grown up in Minnesota, Mike began his industry career as a reservations agent at Northwest Airlines, after which he entered the agency business at Gelco Travel. He is also the proud grandfather of four granddaughters.
​RÜDIGER PROSKE - Senior Vice President International Franchise & Leisure Business - SIXT

Ruediger began his career at Sixt in 1998 as a Management Trainee. After several positions in international franchising, he is responsible for the entire global franchise expansion of Sixt. In addition, Ruediger overlooks Sixt's leisure business, where Sixt works with OTA's, Car Broker & Tour Operators worldwide and appoints GSA's in relevant international source markets.
Ruediger holds a Diploma in Business Administration from University of Siegen.
MARC ROCHET - President & CEO - Aerogestion & French Bee

Marc Rochet has been in the French aviation industry for quite a long time. He started by Air Inter, Aéromatime a low cost UTA subsidiary, and then AOM for the Credit Lyonnais ; then was working for the BA group in France with TAT and Air Liberté successfully sold to the Swair Group.
He managed a lot of airlines mainly to turn them back into restructuration and growth, and even for AKFED, the investment branch of the Aga Khan.
In 2006 he launched l’Avion, a private equity start up for business class only between Paris and New York. In 2008 L’Avion was sold to BA, the name was changed into Openskies.
Today he is acting as CEO for Air Caraibes, a French private airline owned by group Dubreuil and profitable into the cloudy french skies. With Dominique Gretz they also manage the own consulting Cy named: Aerogestion.  

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ERIC SCHULZ - President - SHZ Consulting

​Eric has had an exceptional career in the aviation industry. Before he created recently SHZ Consulting, his own consulting business specialised in Aviation, he was the Chief Commercial Officer at Airbus and was part of the Airbus Group Executive Committee. In this role, Eric was in charge of all sales, marketing, contracts and other commercial matters and reporting to the CEO of Airbus. Prior to that, Eric was at Rolls-Royce where he moved up the ladder from being the Chief Operating Officer of Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace to eventually be promoted as the President of Rolls Royce Civil Aerospace, with overall responsibility for the entire Civil Aerospace businesses of the company which includes business jets and large commercial aircraft engines. Eric started his career in the flight test department of Aerospatiale/Airbus and had a tenure with UTA French Airlines/ Air France, and thereafter became the Engineering and Maintenance VP of AOM French Airlines. He also occupied the post of CEO of Air Liberté Industrie, the MRO which was part of the British Airways Group. Eric also spent some time in the US where he was the President of Goodrich Aviation Technical Services (TRAMCO) the largest airframe MRO in the US and thereafter Goodrich Actuation Systems, the largest flight control supplier in the World.
Today, Eric is Consultant with his own company SHZ Consulting. In this role, Eric provides support to Private Equities around the World as direct advisor to privately own funds or during M&A activities to clients. Based on his deep commercial aviation background, Eric also supports Airlines, MRO and OEM’s organizations in areas such as  strategic reflections, fleet or network restructuring and operational optimizations. 
JOHNNY THORSEN - VP Global travel Strategy & Partnerships - MEZI
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​​Johnny Thorsen is the “VP for Global Travel Strategy and Partnerships” for Mezi, the Silicon Valley based startup focusing on the development and delivery of the industry’s first “AI for Travel as a Service” platform.
Before joining Mezi, Johnny was the Senior Director for Value Services for SAP Mobile Services based in Silicon Valley focusing on the creation of new cloud-based enterprise solutions based on current and future mobile technologies. Prior to joining SAP Mobile Services Johnny was the global product and strategy owner for Concur Risk Messaging after Concur acquired conTgo Ltd in March 2013. Johnny spent 6 years as the co-founder and CEO of conTgo focusing on “point of experience” and “duty of care” mobile travel services for corporate travel and security management.
Prior to launching conTgo Johnny held senior positions in the travel technology industry with major players such as Travelport, Sabre, GetThere, HRG and CWT –while being based in England, Australia and Norway in addition to his native Denmark. In 2010 Business Travel News named Johnny Thorsen one of the 25 most influential people in the business travel industry.
Johnny serves as a strategic advisor for multiple travel tech startups including Stabilitas, Winding Tree, Gaest, MySafeTravel, LuggageHero and MedicalTravelCompanion.