CHIRP

Team: Advisory Board

  • James Fiske

    James Fiske

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    James is a 30-year ‘veteran’ of the industry starting on modern sailing yachts in 1996 and ending up on the classic ‘Haida 1929’. After 15 years as Captain on all sorts from a 37m classic to 74m new build. James now runs his own consultancy company, Tillow Marine, providing owner representation and consultancy on all…

  • Gabriella Cramer

    Gabriella Cramer

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    Gabriella’s experience in yachting includes working onboard in both interior and deck, then in a maritime law firm. With a Master’s in Maritime Law, she worked for yacht management for over seven years in vessel and crew compliance, including employment, and became a DPA/CSO. Now, she provides consulting, training, and auditing for the yachting industry…

  • Giuseppe Corrado

    Giuseppe Corrado

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    Giuseppe is a Master Mariner with two decades of experience across the maritime sector, including cruise, academia, and senior roles in superyacht safety and compliance. Over the past ten years he has worked with more than 100 yachts as DPA, bringing practical operational insight to CHIRP’s Advisory Board.

  • Lisa Ruane

    Lisa Ruane

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    Lisa has had a varied career in both retail management, retail recruitment and education. She started her aviation journey in September 2017 with Titan Airways.  Her first role was as a cabin office administrator, which gave a great insight into the workings of the aviation industry learning the many acronyms and abbreviations.  She now holds…

  • Kirsten Riensema

    Kirsten Riensema

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    Kirsten has over 30 years’ experience in the operational and regulatory areas of commercial aviation. She has been dedicated to implementing safety and risk management principles and has experience in implementing organisational change, with a specific passion to ensuring people are central to decisions and solutions. She is passionate about designing processes that recognise the…

  • Alastair Burn

    Alastair Burn

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    Alastair started his career as a Propulsion Technician in the Royal Air Force serving 6 years on the Merlin helicopter. He spent the next 10 years working with civil VIP helicopters at Blackbushe, Stanstead and Denham gaining his B1.3 and C licence, alongside an Aircraft Engineering Degree and Aviation Maintenance Management Post Graduate Diploma. Alastair…

  • Chris Whittington

    Chris Whittington

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    Chris has been a professional helicopter pilot for over 20 years. Beginning as a Sea King Mk 5 pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, he conducted Search and Rescue operations for 771NAS in Cornwall. Moving on to the Sea King Mk7, numerous deployments to Afghanistan and the Gulf followed, including a period as an embarked…

  • Glen Watson

    Glen Watson

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    Glen started his aviation journey alongside his science teaching career in 2011, completing his PPL(A) followed shortly after by a CPL(A) and instructor rating. In 2017, realising the pull of aviation was too great, Glen was successful in being selected by NATS as an Air Traffic Controller cadet and completed his training in Aerodrome &…

  • Grant Meekey

    Grant Meekey

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    Grant has 35 years of Military and Civil Aerospace experience and trained as a pilot & rear-crew; rotary & fixed-wing. He developed aviation human potential in some of the world’s most isolated areas in operations and training to a broad spectrum of civil and military aviation professionals. Grant is chair of an independent aviation technical…

  • Jane Unwin

    Jane Unwin

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    Jane’s aviation career began in 1988 when she was offered the job of Crewing Officer at a small charter airline, British Island Airways. At the time she knew nothing about what the role would involve, or where it would lead her, but it was the beginning of a 36 year journey. From BIA she moved…

  • Natasha Gilchrist

    Natasha Gilchrist

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    Natasha graduated from university with a BA hons in creative arts before starting her aviation career in 1998. She started flying as long haul cabin crew for British Airways, which she did for 7 years, this included a secondment to short haul before leaving aviation to train to be a teacher. As soon as she…

  • Adele Bates

    Adele Bates

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    Adele has been working in the aviation industry since 1995 and is experienced in a wide range of areas, including Scheduled, ACMI and VIP Airline Operations at Senior Level. She has a proven ability working in both training and cabin crew management roles, setting up airline training and cabin service departments to EASA/UK CAA standards…