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Team: Advisory Board

  • 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…

  • Gordon Meadow

    Gordon Meadow

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  • Olly Alexander

    Olly Alexander

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  • Captain Nitin Kochhar

    Captain Nitin Kochhar

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    Maritime QHSSE & Sustainability Leader driving safety and operational excellence across global shipping.

  • Aseem Hashmi

    Aseem Hashmi

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