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LEADERS

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Paul Thorpe 

Managing Partner - Aero

is a highly experienced global sales, marketing and support leader with 35 years experience in the aviation industry. Paul has been directly responsible for >$260m aircraft sales and >$500m aviation system sales and managed sales teams generating further multiples.

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Gerry Egan  

Managing Partner - Aero 

is an innovative and visionary executive with over 20 years’ experience solving large scale and complex problems in the airline, helicopter, aerospace, and MRO industries. He has led the electric aircraft revolution and delivered the world’s first all-electric powered commercial test flight in Dec 2019.

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Luke Jenkinson 

Managing Director
 

Founder of ELIRE Group and ventures of Infra & Aero, is a serial entrepreneur who has started and scaled global ventures. Luke applies innovation and creative solutions with a commercial mind set to real world challenges and purposes.

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Jörg Janning
Advisor
 -Advanced Tech

is a highly experienced engineering executive and CTO with a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Joerg has successfully development a high speed, high power medium voltage drive and industrial drives with the R&D team at Wolong Electrical. At GE Power Conversion he has led engineering experts teams (200 engineers, $300 Revenue)

 

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Greg Leather 

Advisor - Corporate Lawyer

is a partner in the Corporate/ Commercial and Dispute Resolution teams at Barringer Leather Lawyers. He advises listed corporations, private companies and individuals from a wide range of industries on all aspects of their corporate, commercial, property and
financing dealings, including debt and capital raisings.

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Farah Hijjawai

Partner Investments
has more than 10 years of experience in the financial services sector with a focus on the investment space. She has experience in both private and public sectors, where she worked at the Central Bank of Jordan, the Social Security Investment Fund, Cairo Amman Bank, INVESTBANK Group, and VentureX. 
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Phil Nowak

Advisor - Aviation & Logistics

is an experienced Airline Director with a demonstrated history of working in the aerospace industry. He has strong expertise in supplier management managing more than $300M USD annual expense for GE Aviation, continuous improvement, business development for airlines generating more than $4B USD revenue annually.

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Liz Axten

Advisor -Brand & Marketing 

Liz is a senior brand and communications strategist with over 20 years experience activating live and digital campaigns. Specialising in sustainable mobility brands and smart cities, Liz works across key markets to connect game changing innovators with the communities whose lives they enrich. 

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Mo. Ashmawy

UAE - Airports & aviation

has a strong background in engineering, advisory, and engagement and has played a key role in the delivery of transit infrastructure projects around the globe. He has worked with leading companies such as Collins Aerospace and AECOM, where he led the successful delivery of complex aviation programs.

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Brad Fitzgerald

Partner - Venture & Investments 
 

is a founding partner and Chairman at Swiss Wealth Management, a Swiss-based hedge fund and private equity firm that specialises in Sovereign Wealth funds. Prior to Swiss Wealth Management, Mr. Fitzgerald was Director of IAM, a global equity fund. Prior thereto, he was a senior director of Brunei Investment Agency (BIA)

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