Peter Owen, Chairman

Peter spent 21 years at British Airways plc until 1990, with his final role as Director of Operations. Since 1990, Peter has held various roles, including Chief Executive Officer of Innocan Inc, from 1990 to 1994; Chief Executive Officer of Aer Lingus plc, from 1993 to 1994; Chief Executive Officer of PPP Healthcare Group plc, from 1994 to 1998; Chief Executive Officer of The Corporate Services Group plc from 1999 to 2002; a Director of Sun Life and Provincial Holdings plc in 1999; a Director of Guardian Royal Exchange plc from 1998 to 1999; and until 2005, Executive Chairman of Cox Insurance Holdings plc. Peter is also currently a Director of XL Leisure Group and is also a Director of Clear Technology Inc.

Lawrence Hunt, Chief Executive Officer

Lawrence, who founded Silverjet Aviation Limited in 2004, has been involved with six start-up businesses since 1984, two as Chief Executive. These included Novell, a US technology business which listed on Nasdaq in 1987; BMS, a technology consulting partnership which was sold to Cap Gemini in 1992; Database Management Sciences Limited, which was sold to IBM in 1993; Rapid Travel Solutions Limited, which was sold to Telewest Communications plc in 2003; and lowcosttravelgroup.com Limited, of which Lawrence is currently a Non-Executive director.

David Fleming, Technical and Operations Director

David spent 34 years at British Airways plc, during which time he flew the Vanguard, 1-11 and all types of 747. For 20 years he held various training and technical senior management positions. In his last 5 years at British Airways he was General Manager Technical and Training for flight operations and was an appointed AOC holder for the airline. David introduced the 747-400 into operation at British Airways and flew it from 1989 until 2001. Between 2001-2002 he was General Manager Operations for Qatar Airways. Since 2002 he has provided technical consultancy to several aviation companies.

Martin Lynch, Finance Director

Martin, who is an FCCA, spent 30 years at British Airways plc having held a number of senior finance positions in both the UK and US. His roles covered all aspects of finance in all key areas of the airline business, including Corporate Finance, Internal Audit, Revenue, Customer Service and Operations. Since leaving British Airways, he has worked as a consultant to the airline and transport industry including positions within XL Airways and Honda Europe plc. His last role was as Chief Financial Officer for the US airline Xtra Airways.

Peter Shawyer, Non-Executive Director

Peter is an FCA who worked for Deloitte & Touche LLP for 32 years, 22 years as a Partner, from 1982 until 2004, and most recently as Managing Partner.  He sat on the boards of the UK, European and Central European organisations.  Peter held Non-Executive directorships with Walbrook International Limited until 2003, where he was Chairman, and Liberata plc from 2000 until 2003.  He is currently a Non-Executive Director of HSBC Bank plc, and HSBC France.

Peter is also Chairman of British International (a helicopter company) and also a Non-Executive Director of Ingenious Media PLC.

Amir Eilon, Non-Executive Director

Amir joins Silverjet as a Non-Executive Director following eight years as Non-Executive Director at easyJet, during which time he undertook a key role in the airline’s acquisition of Go and the securing of an option to acquire Deutsche BA. With a wealth of experience in investment banking, Amir’s finance experience includes time at CSFB Private Equity, where he was jointly responsible for a US$600m private equity fund, BZW, where he was Head of Global Capital Markets and Morgan Stanley, where he was responsible for International Equity Markets. Amir is also a Non-Executive Director of MK Airlines, a cargo airline, the Chairman of Spring plc, a LSE listed company, and a NED of Globus, an AIM listed company.