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MALCOLM
HOLT MBA FCA - Chairman
Malcolm co-founded Cabot Aviation in 1998, having
experienced many years in aircraft trading and leasing.
As Chairman of Cabot Aviation he has been involved
in a wide variety of aircraft leases, purchase and
sales and financings. His early career was as a Chartered
Accountant with Ernst and Young and following an MBA
at Cranfield in 1977, he moved into financial and
commercial management, eventually entering the aviation
industry
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TONY
WHITTY - Chief Executive Officer
Tony co-founded Cabot Aviation in 1998 having graduated
from Brighton University in 1988 with an Honours degree
in Business Studies and commenced his career in aircraft
marketing in 1990. For more than fifteen years Tony
has been based in Europe and in the USA and has achieved
considerable success in aircraft marketing acting
for a variety of airline and financial clients. His
experience includes success in many different wide
and narrow-bodied jet and regional and commuter turbo-prop
aircraft types.
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GREG
COPE - Senior Vice President
In an aviation industry career spanning over 30 years,
Greg has been involved in airport and airline operations
as well as the marketing and sales of commercial and
corporate aircraft, their engines, components and
services for several OEMs including British Aerospace,
Raytheon, Fairchild Dornier and Rolls-Royce. Having
lived and worked successfully in many parts of the
world, Greg brings a wealth of experience to Cabot
Aviation and its projects.
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CHARLEY
CLEAVER - Senior Vice President, North America
Charley, Cabot Aviation’s North America representative,
has been a lessor, senior officer at engine and airframe
manufacturers, and vp/treasurer at the tenth largest
US airline since entering the sector in 1985. Having
been a seller for aircraft and engine manufacturers,
purchaser for a major airline, and structured many
different types of aircraft financings around the
world, Charley brings valuable experience to Cabot’s
clients, from turboprops to widebody aircraft.
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MATS
ZIEMNIACK - Regional Vice President, Latin America
A Swedish national with a long and far-reaching experience
of aviation in Latin America, his industry career
covers over 25 years with airlines and leasing companies.
Mats has been involved in numerous successful aircraft
lease and sale transactions and airline consultancy
projects over the years. Being fluent in Spanish plus
his knowledge of both operator and lessor/seller requirements
in an aircraft business deal are key elements to closing
transactions in a professional and timely manner.
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VINCENT
LAM - Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific
Vincent graduated from Cambridge University in the
UK with a Master of Engineering degree. Originally
he worked for Deloitte & Touche Consulting before
joining Bank of America for six years and later moving
to DVB's Structured Asset Finance team in the Netherlands.
He joined Standard Chartered Bank in 2005 where he
led their aircraft financing and remarketing activities
in the Asia Pacific region. Vincent is based in Singapore,
speaks fluent Cantonese and is responsible for all
Cabot’s activities in the Asia Pacific region.
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HOWARD
RICHARDSON - Vice President
After his
first career as a Navigation/Warfare specialist in
the Royal Navy, Howard has been in senior roles in
marketing in the British defence industry and latterly
in commercial aircraft marketing. Prior to joining
Cabot, he started his aviation marketing career with
a major remarketing company and worked in their UK
and US offices.
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TIM
DOBSON - Vice President - Financial Products
Tim started his finance career in 1997 with Sector
Management Limited as a lease broker and in 2000 joining
Alliance & Leicester Commercial Finance plc’s
specialist big ticket asset finance front office.
Tim has successfully completed aviation facilities
including bi-lateral debt, warehouse participations,
PDP finance, UK finance leases as well as facility
restructures and extensions for regional, narrow-bodied
and wide-bodied aircraft. In addition he was also
responsible for the on-going management of Alliance
& Leicester’s c.USD1.7bn aviation portfolio.
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ALEXANDER
BABIS - Regional Vice President, Russia and CIS
Originally from Russia, Alex has been based in the
UK for the past 16 years. He has worked with regulatory
authorities in Russia and other CIS countries, and
in the last few years has concentrated on placing
wide and narrow body aircraft acting on behalf of
both western lessors and Russian airlines. Fluent
in Russian Alex brings to Cabot an in-depth knowledge
of many operators and financial institutions in Russia
and other CIS countries which is extremely useful
given the number of western manufactured aircraft
being acquired in that region.
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