Jane Stanbury

President, Arena Group Associates

Jane has over 30 years’ professional experience working in the communications, aviation, and luxury travel sectors. She has run and sold two successful companies, an educational dot.com and a luxury travel consultancy which became her springboard into the business aviation sector sixteen years ago. She launched her third business Arena Group in January 2016 having been inspired by her decade working across the aerospace spectrum with Emerald Media.

She provides marketing, communications, and copy-writing services, to a range of international organisations from innovative next-gen start-up companies through to global corporations, in addition to writing regular features for a number of trade publications. 

Jane brings a broad international business perspective to any situation having lived and worked in London, New York, Mallorca, and Japan. She is now settled in Montreal with her aviation consultant husband.  Driven by a desire to explore and discover she is always seeking out new potential in the companies she works with.

Dr Geraldine Spiteri Lucas

Chief Executive Office and Registrar, Malta Business Registry

The Chief Executive Officer and Registrar of the Malta Business Registry Dr. Spiteri Lucas is a lawyer by profession who acquired a Doctor of Laws from the University of Malta and a warrant to practice in Maltese Courts. She also read a Masters Degree in European Studies and Comparative Law in 2012.

Dr. Spiteri Lucas started her career with a leading local law firm, advising local and international clients on civil, commercial, corporate, shipping and aviation law. This resulted in representing various clients in litigation procedures before Tribunals and local courts. She is also a member of the board of examiners for the department of Commercial Law of the University of Malta.

Previously to her MBR appointment, she used to head the legal and enforcement Unit of the said entity and oversaw its overall function. Dr. Spiteri Lucas was instrumental in subject persons and CSPs in intricate legal issues. She also played a crucial role in implementing the action plan put forward by the FATF such as the implementation of the BO Register. This crucial work resulted in Malta being put off the grey list. She was also involved in the transposition of EU Directives relating to company law into Maltese law and the upkeep of the Companies Act and relevant regulations.

Juris Zacs

Insurance Broker & Branch Manager, Marine Insurance Services

Being a branch manager and director of aviation and marine insurance in Spain, he is representing specialized insurance brokerage Marine Insurance Services SIA Sucursal en España (Branch in Spain) which is a part of the Marine Services Group™ (MSG), a unique group of companies covering more than 25 products for the maritime, aviation and transport industry in 4 general business lines: Insurance, Legal, Shipsale and Survey.

Juris has almost 20 years of insurance brokering experience and more than a decade working closely with Marine Insurance Services to develop general and business aviation solutions for the aviation industry.

By closely working with business aviation market, Juris has been a key person for many business jet owners and operators helping successfully to place adapted insurance programs with well know and reputed insurance companies across the globe.

James Jaffa

Partner, Jaffa & Co