Executive Team

Managing Director

Oliver is a Managing Director for Capital Markets at Seabury Capital advising clients in the aviation and aerospace industries.  Prior to Seabury, Oliver held the financial officer role of Managing Director-Head of Capital Markets & Treasury for Waypoint Leasing, a private-equity owned, global helicopter leasing company.  Oliver was also a Director for CIT’s Transportation principal finance business. His clients included middle market private equity firms, aviation and aerospace and defense industry suppliers. Prior to CIT, Oliver held roles at GE Capital, Bank of America, and Mitchell Madison Group. Oliver received his B.A. and M.P.A. from Cornell University, and a M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Managing Director

James Chan is a Managing Director, at Seabury Asset Management and CEO of Billboard TFX. He has over two decades experience in the structured finance and commodity markets including structuring, investment management across the capital structure and derivatives trading.

Prior to joining Seabury Capital, James was Managing Director and Head of Trade Finance at the private credit fund, White Oak. His prior experience also includes MET Commodities, The Noble Group, Cheyne Capital, BlackRock, and Nomura. James received his BSc (hons) Biochemistry from Royal Holloway College, London and his MSc International Management from Kings College, London.

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Chief Financial Officer, SING for Service Mepco

Kevin Diamond joined Seabury Asset Management I LLC in 2017 as Chief Financial Officer. He leads our efforts working with major third party providers to acquire and service payment plans for the vehicle service contract (“VSC”) market. In this role, he has oversight of all functions for the company’s VSC operations.

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Managing Director, Seabury Securities

Gregory Ethier rejoined Seabury in June 2020 following 9 years at Aircastle Advisor LLC, a leading aircraft lessor. While at Aircastle, Greg led North American marketing efforts, including portfolio lease placements and aircraft acquisitions (consistently $1.5B+ annually). In addition, Greg was responsible for OEM coverage and led the evaluation of new technology offerings of Embraer, Airbus and Boeing, identified and supported new business development opportunities and led and managed Aircastle’s freighter aircraft portfolio, including the evaluation of freighter conversion programs. Prior to Aircastle, Greg spent 12 years at Seabury executing on numerous M&A advisory, financial restructuring, aircraft related and creditor assignments.

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Managing Director, Seabury Securities

Alexis Fekete joined Seabury in 2010, he is a Managing Director of Seabury Securities, is based in Dubai and London and he coordinates Seabury Securities aviation practice for Europe, the Middle East & Africa. He brings over sixteen years of advisory and investment banking experience in the aviation and aerospace industry with specialized experience in M&A, financial & operational restructuring, debt & equity raising, aircraft financing, airline & lessor due diligence. He recently led the successful restructuring & capital raise of Norwegian Air Shuttle. Alexis has originated or/and executed over 150 aviation & aerospace related transactions in his career, totaling over $16B. Earlier, Alexis was a Vice President aircraft finance at Natixis. Mr. Fekete holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Master in French Business Law & a Master Grandes Ecoles from NEOMA Business School.

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President and Chief Executive Officer, Seabury Global Markets

Rob Fleschler is a Senior Advisor to Seabury Asset Management specializing in portfolio companies within the financial technology space.  Rob has more than 25 years of experience in the Financial Services industry with a background in cash, futures and options sales & trading; day to day management of global institutional sales teams and building electronic execution products and distribution capabilities.  Rob’s  previous work experience includes more than a decade with financial institutions in the US and abroad including JP Morgan (NY, London), UBS (NY, Tokyo and Singapore), Lehman Brothers (NY), Goldman Sachs (NY) and another decade with software companies and electronic execution venues.  Mr. Fleschler holds a B.A. from DePauw University and joins Seabury from Hotspot, now part of Cboe FX Markets LLC..

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Managing Director, Seabury Securities

Layne Grindal joined Seabury in 2020 and has nearly 20 years of experience advising airlines and aircraft investors on complex financing and business transactions.  Prior to joining Seabury, he spent two years at a transportation-focused investment bank where he helped originate, syndicate and close nearly $1.0 billion of aircraft financings for airlines globally.  Previously Layne was Deputy General Counsel of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded cargo airline and aircraft leasing company, where he advised on over $4.5 billion of aircraft and capital market financings and over $3.5 billion of aircraft acquisitions.  He joined Atlas from Haynes and Boone, LLP, where he was a corporate lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions, securities law, corporate finance and corporate restructurings.  He is a member of the State Bar of New York and holds Series 7, 63 and 79 licenses from FINRA.

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Managing Director, Seabury Securities

Stephan Krastev has over 20 years of experience in investment banking and corporate finance advisory. Mr. Krastev joined Seabury in April 2002 and has since led, co-led, structured and executed a broad range of transactions, including debt and equity capital raising, M&A advisory and turnarounds, and aircraft financing in aviation and aerospace.

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President and Chief Executive Officer, Seabury Trade Finance Exchange LLC (Seabury TFX)

Robert is CEO of Seabury Trade Finance Exchange LLC (Seabury TFX) and holds overall responsibility for the company’s strategy and key business initiatives. With more than 20 years of industry experience, he has a unique background in trade, finance, supply chain and technology as a practitioner and as a service provider. Prior to Seabury TFX, he was managing director of TradeCard Inc., now GTNexus, where he built and oversaw the company’s global supplier business to a network of over 20,000 companies. Before TradeCard, Lin held management positions at NewView Technologies, Omnivision Technologies, and Cargill Financial Markets Group. He holds a B.A. in cognitive science from University of California, San Diego and an M.B.A. from University of Southern California. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and events on supply chain and trade finance.

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CEO, SGI Aviation

Paolo Lironi is SGI’s CEO. He joined SGI in 2008, with more than 10 years of experience in commercial aviation.

Mr. Lironi has a strong track record in aircraft leasing, contract negotiation, redeliveries, buyouts, and end-of-life scenario planning. His clients include financial institutions as well as large lessors and commercial airlines.

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Executive Director, Seabury Securities

Ross McKenzie is an Executive Director with Seabury Securities with over 20 years of experience in airline business and financial planning, restructurings, and fleet analysis.  Mr. McKenzie leads Seabury’s business planning team, a group of financial planning specialists responsible for evaluating and developing airline business plans and financial projections.  At Seabury, Mr. McKenzie has developed financial projections and other analyses to support a broad spectrum of projects, including restructurings, due diligence reviews, corporate financing projects and fleet campaigns.  Mr. McKenzie and the business planning team have worked with more than 50 airlines worldwide of all sizes and strategies.

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CEO, Seabury Enterprise Solutons and
CEO, Seabury IT/Software Advisory

Bijoy Mechery joined the Seabury in 2002 as a Managing Director as well as Chief Executive Officer of Seabury’s IT software consulting and development firm, Seabury Enterprise Solutions, LLC (SES). SES provides comprehensive IT consulting services to Seabury’s aviation and private equity clients including vendor selection, IT spend analysis and improvement and IT due diligence. SES has also developed a suite of proprietary, cross industry, decision support and analysis applications including what Seabury believes to be the most robust and comprehensive airline enterprise assessment software (Seabury’s Airline Performance Analysis System, or “APAS”).

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Executive Director, Seabury Securities

Ken Raff has been engaged on over 20 aircraft acquisition campaigns since joining Seabury in 2001. He takes a lead role for client fleet evaluation, planning and aircraft analysis including performance and specification selection. He manages aircraft procurement and restructuring campaigns with a focus on evaluating and negotiating (or renegotiating) aircraft and engine purchase agreements and associated long term maintenance contracts. Prior to joining Seabury, Mr. Raff spent 15 years at American Airlines in various finance roles including fleet planning and transactions, and three years conducting certification flight tests at Boeing.

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Managing Director, European Aviation, Aerospace & Defense Investment Banking

Mr. Antares Reis is the MD of Seabury’s European Aerospace & Defense Investment Banking team. Antares’ primary responsibilities include origination and execution of Investment Banking-related transactions in the A&D industry.

Prior to joining Seabury in early 2013, he spent a career establishing his expertise and A&D as Vice-President at Barons, CIT Aerospace, and General Electric. He led and was an integral part of a variety of financing and M&A transactions, spanning key A&D market segments that are complementary to Seabury’s core advisory practices, including the MRO, Aerospace Distribution & Logistics, Aircraft Interiors, Aerospace Propulsion, Aerostructures, Training & Simulation, and Defense Systems. During his career, Antares also held positions with McKinsey, PwC, CCF Bank, and Pactual Bank.

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Senior Vice President, Seabury Securities

Neal Wesson joined Seabury in 2007. Neal has worked on wide ranging transactions consisting of in- and out-of-court restructurings, liquidity programs, and arranging and structuring aircraft financings including secured debt, operating, leveraged and tax leases, PDP financing, and fleet sourcing and remarketing. Neal has extensive expertise in analyzing fleet sourcing and financing options to optimize ownership costs and mitigate risk. He works with clients to understand, analyze and select funding structures and negotiating and executing commitments and documentation. Since joining Seabury, Neal executed over 50 transactions totaling over $25 billion and 300 aircraft. Neal holds a B.S. in management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Managing Director, Seabury Securities

Doug is a Managing Director at Seabury Securities, where he advises airline and institutional-investor clients on financings, fleet acquisitions and dispositions, mergers, and corporate restructurings.  Over the course of his 24-year career, Doug has worked with more than two dozen carriers, arranged or funded more than USD20 billion in debt and equity capital, and restructured more than USD40 billion in financings through both in- and out-of-court proceedings.

Prior to joining Seabury, Doug was a Managing Director at SkyWorks Capital, where he co-led the firm’s investment banking practice, and before that, he was Senior Vice President, Marketing-Americas at SMBC Aviation Capital and its predecessor, RBS Aviation Capital, where he was responsible for the origination and execution of new leasing and debt financing business in that region.

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Managing Director, Seabury Aircraft Capital

Stacey Wilson is Managing Director for Seabury Aircraft Capital and has over 23 years of aircraft financing experience as a cofounder of SFI International LLC, a Director at CIT Group, and a Vice President at Newcourt Capital providing aircraft financing solutions to global clientele closing over 1000 aircraft valued at $18B.  He is a former USAF Pilot and veteran of war.  He has an MBA from the Wharton School and a BS from the US Air Force Academy. He is FINRA licensed (series 24, 7, 63).

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