Solutions oriented, experienced, and professional
Business Aviation Specialist
Experience
A high performing aviation professional with a foundation in operations developing into firmly established, highly successful, commercial acumen. The success of my commercial career has, in part, been a result of my exceptional abilities in forming and maintaining good stakeholder relationships. I have a proven track record in understanding and developing good business and I have excellent leadership skills both at organisational level and with UHNW individuals.
- Exceptional proven Commercial background
- Business acquisition and due diligence experience
- Senior Leadership and Change Management - including coping mechanisms
- Extensive experience and understanding of regulated business and commercial balances
- Excellent Operations background and strategist
- Systems and processes
Previous background and experience
Interim Management and Consultancy Projects for organisations (Apr 20 -To Date)
Flexjet Europe (Aug 2016 - Feb 2020)
As Commercial Vice President and later, regulatory Accountable Manager, I led the successful growth of the company from it's baseline, whilst raising, maintaining and growing significant revenue, and, delivering profitability. I led the transformation of the business across all functions, moving the business, its people and culture, forward with energy to secure its future in-line with a sustainable growth plan.
Objectives Delivered
- Increased revenue from £3m 2016, £6m 2017, to £9m 2019
- Managed increase of aircraft from 3 to 12, exceeding revenue targets, and delivered profitability
- Revenue generated from an incredibly competitive and crowded charter market
- Reduced operating costs of aircraft operations by 22%
- Found and built relationships with HNW/UHNW clients
Pivotal Achievements
- Understood the aircraft, how to operate and utilise the fleet
- Maintained stable and careful aircraft management
- Ironed out strengths and weaknesses
- Formed and mentored new management team and structure
- Created greater efficiency across the organisation in order to focus employees time and attention regulation, revenue, costs, and profit.
- Maintained and fostered relationship with regulator (UK CAA) during unprecedented growth
- Drove cultural alignment for employees, with Italian, and US colleagues
- Managed the introduction of new aircraft into the organisation
- Implemented a number of IT platforms for Operations, Sales and Management
Roles included:
Commercial Vice President (Flexjet Europe)
Accountable Manager (Regulatory)
General Manager (MD Level)
FlairJet Ltd 2009-2016
FlairJet Ltd (Sep 2009 - Aug 2016)
Formed the company in a very competitive environment, securing market share by focussing our attention on the commercial workings of Embraer products, becoming the de facto Embraer experts, and product leaders in Europe. It is in this period of my career that I identified my future trajectory and pursued it with exceptional passion and energy - still with me today.
Objectives Delivered
- Worked with, and maintained relationships with UHNW individuals who bought into our business concept resulting in the management of several aircraft.
- Maintained stakeholder relationships
- Built Sales functions, and team, from scratch
- Formed AOC
- Marketed the management team and company externally
Roles Included:
Compliance Monitoring Manager (postholder)
Safety Manager (postholder)
Director of Operations
Line Training Captain
Training & Awards
Training
Quality Assurance/Compliance monitoring
Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS) – Air Operations
Effective Event Review
Pilot Training
Mentoring Programme under previous CEO
Crisis Media Training
Awards
Company Outstanding Professionalism Award (2019) – EBAA
Performance in Aviation Safety Award (Finalist 2015)
CV
David Taylor Profile 2021 (pdf)
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