Committee Members
Arnaud Fiscel
Chairman
Elected April 2018
Arnaud Fiscel is Deputy Head of the Corporate Banking Department at Bank of China in London, where he oversees multi-sector financing covering automotive, aviation, commercial real estate, logistics, maritime, and… Read more »
Mark Atherley
Treasurer
Elected April 2024
Mark Atherley has been involved in aviation for over thirty years, flying both Boeing and Airbus aircraft during his career. He has over 17,000 hours of commercial flying experience including… Read more »
Donna Ager
Elected April 2026
Donna Ager is a partner in Walkers’ Global Asset Finance team, based in London. She specialises in aviation finance, advising on Irish law leasing and financing of transportation assets, including… Read more »
Ian Dearing
Elected April 2026
Ian Dearing is an aviation professional with over four decades of experience spanning military service, commercial aircraft engineering, senior leadership, and international regulatory oversight. His career began in the Royal… Read more »
John Duffy
Elected April 2026
John is the Chief Commercial Officer of SKY Leasing and has over 30 years’ experience in aircraft leasing and finance. Most recently, John worked at SALI as a Senior Marketing… Read more »
Gwen Edwards
Chair of YAP Working Group
Elected April 2022
Gwen Edwards is a partner in the Aircraft Finance team at CMS, specialising in debt financing and leasing of commercial and corporate aircraft. Gwen acts for a mix of lenders, lessors,… Read more »
Michael Halaby
Elected April 2022
Michael Halaby has 20+ years of providing strategic funding advice to C-suite executives in the aviation, automotive and financial institution sectors on accessing the US$ and international bond, secured bank… Read more »
Sarah Owen
Chairman of the Forum Working Group
Elected April 2024
Sarah is a well known figure in UK aviation with over twenty years experience within the Airline, Airport, OEM, MRO, IT, Government and Public sectors. Her career took flight at… Read more »
Charles Paterson
Elected April 2025
Charles Paterson has been involved in aviation and worked in aircraft acquisitions, trading, and remarketing for over 15 years. Starting in the industry as a qualified pilot, Charles transitioned into… Read more »
Rebecca Quayle
Elected April 2023
Rebecca Quayle is a Partner in HFW’s Aerospace team, advising leasing companies, airlines, insurers, financiers and arrangers on a wide range of aviation-related transactions, including sale and leasebacks, engine operating… Read more »
Graeme Shanks
Elected April 2025
Graeme has over seventeen years’ experience in the business and commercial aviation sectors and first joined The Aviation Club in 2007. He is the founder and owner of Ionic Aviation,… Read more »
Francois Soldan
Elected April 2026
Francois Soldan holds a Director position in the Aviation & Space team at Bayern LB. As a relationship manager, he structures offers and implements financing solutions to a broad perimeter… Read more »
Jack Sosnierz
Elected April 2023
Jack started his career in aviation in the 1990s and has been based in the UK, mainland Europe, USA, MEA and APAC, achieving considerable success in sales and account management… Read more »
Philip Tozer-Pennington
Elected April 2019
Philip Tozer-Pennington is the Managing Director of Aviation News Ltd, which has been serving the commercial aviation sector for over eight years now with news services, magazines/journals, conferences and exhibitions…. Read more »
Tony Whitty
Immediate Past Chairman
Elected April 2018
Tony started his career in aircraft remarketing in 1990. Tony has been based both in Europe and the USA and has achieved considerable success in aircraft remarketing on behalf of… Read more »