Paul Jebely

Managing Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (HK) LLP

Paul is an international attorney, law professor and angel investor. Among a considerable list of awards by highly regarded sources, he has been named to the list of top 100 people in aviation globally (2016 & 2020), named top private aircraft attorney in the world (2018), rated top private aircraft attorney in Asia (2015 – 2021), named top private client attorney in Asia (2020) and recognised for outstanding contribution to the development of African aviation (2015). He has been noted multiple times in TheFinancial Times, in addition to The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, China Daily and numerous other publications.

Paul’s law practice focuses on advising private aircraft owners and commercial airlines globally. He has served as lead counsel on nearly $20 billion worth of aviation transactions, including multiple commercial aviation “Deal of the Year” transactions, in addition to handling complex disputes and restructurings. In doing so, he has most notably counselled UHNWIs holding combined wealth over $300 billion, and corporations with combined revenue over $1 trillion in 2020, in respect of private aviation matters.

Over the past decade, Paul has held several leadership positions at two international law firms with annual revenue in excess of $500 million each. Notably, he has served as chair or co-chair of multiple international departments, launched and managed a profitable international branch, and led both firms to receive prestigious “Aviation Law Firm of the Year” awards for the first time in their histories. He has also originated a total of over $30 million in revenue from dozens of new clients to each firm during the same period.

Separate to law firm leadership, Paul founded and chairs a registered charitable aviation industry group, the Hong Kong Society of Aviation Professionals, with over 700 members that has organised networking events with over 2,000 attendees and nearly $100,000 raised thus far – with donations made to multiple charities and schools in Hong Kong and South Africa.

Paul has published numerous legal articles as well as two academic papers, and serves as the contributing editor of a several hundred page aviation finance guide published annually by a major legal publisher. In addition, he has spoken at dozens of aviation conferences around the world to a combined audience of over 4,000 people. He has guest lectured at NYU Stern and has most recently been appointed as an adjunct professor at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Law in South Africa, where he is launching a highly unique aviation diversity initiative.

Paul holds a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, a BA from Trinity Collage at the University of Toronto, and a diploma from a two-year part-time executive leadership program at Stanford University’s Law School and Graduate School of Business’ Rock Centre for Corporate Governance. He is presently enrolled in an MS program of study at The Citadel. He is qualified to practice law in the United States, England and Canada.

Paul separately operates a small holding company that includes $1 million in capital deployed for early stage investments in aviation, athletics, professional services, media and technology.

Paul is a Canadian citizen and permanent resident of Hong Kong, where he resides with his wife and three children.

Tom Chatfield

Camber Aviation Management

Thomas Chatfield is a leader in aircraft completions and refurbishment management with 35 years of aviation experience. He founded Camber Aviation Management in 2014, focused on managing the outfitting of large private jets and providing tailored technical advisory services, reflecting his business philosophy in the four pillars of company values – knowledge, experience, innovation and trust. 

Thomas was a member of the senior management teams that created DaimlerChrysler Aviation, Santos Dumont and Qatar Executive. He has led operations, maintenance and engineering departments; managed complex completions; performed aircraft acceptances and recovered aircraft from challenging situations. 

He holds Transport Canada and EASA Aircraft Maintenance Engineer licences, with an MSc in Airline Transport Management from Cranfield University.

David Van Den Langenbergh

President Aviation Services, LUXAVIATION GROUP

David Van Den Langenbergh has over 20 years of experience in business and commercial aviation. A native of Schoten, Belgium, David, 44, was Airworthiness Manager of Belgium-based Abelag Aviation, which he joined in 2006 as head of Part 145 repair station maintenance. Prior to that, he worked for ten years as line and base maintenance manager at Lufthansa Technik and Delta. His early years were spent in general aviation, first at Bossaerts Aviation Service, then Styl Aviation and finally ABC Aviation, where he worked as a mechanic before moving up to the post of inspector. David entered aviation right out of vocational school and is largely self-taught. He obtained his pilot’s license at the tender age of 21. David has been a Dassault Falcon Operators Advisory Board chairman since 2013 and became Chief Technical Officer of Luxaviation Group in September 2014.

Since 2016 he’s board member of the General Aviation Manufacturer’s Association where he’s the Chairman of the Airworthiness & Maintenance Committee. David discusses on a regular basis with EASA, FAA and EU aviation representatives to support Business and General Aviation interests.

David is also accountable Manager for the Luxaviation San Marino AOC, offering an international commercial operation platform for aircraft owners that need a flexible solution combined with professional, secure and safe aviation environment.

Yosef F Hafiz

Vice President Sales & Marketing, NASJET Private Aviation – Commercial

Toby Edwards

co-CEO

Toby joined Victor as its first Member Services Executive in July 2012. Today, as Co-CEO alongside James Farley, he drives business development, commercial strategy and operational efficiency for the fastest growing on-demand jet charter company worldwide.

Over the course of Toby’s decade at Victor, he has built and trained the sales, operations and flight management teams in the UK, Europe and US to deliver high touch and consistent customer service to Victor members across the globe.

From carbon offsetting to the first loyalty programme for business aviation, Toby brings passion and creative thinking to business aviation with the mission of providing a better way to fly privately.

Adrian Chalker

Custom Tour Specialist, Adventures Abroad

Born in the UK, raised in Zimbabwe and boarding-schooled back in the UK, Adrian spent his youth hitch-hiking around the world, something still possible in the 1980s and 1990s. After a decade working as an adventure tour leader for Explore Worldwide (UK) in India (6 years), Egypt (2 years), Jordan, Syria, Israel, Morocco, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Peru, the Galapagos Islands, and much of Europe, Adrian married an American and emigrated to the US in 1992, where he started his own successful tour operator business (10 employees), line producing documentary film crews and designing and running specialist travel itineraries for universities, schools, art museums and special interest groups. After taking a second degree (double major political science & journalism) at the University of Washington in his late 40s, Adrian now runs the customization department for Adventures Abroad –  one of Canada’s premier travel companies. Extensively traveled, Adrian‘s great love is history and cultural comparisons, and he lauds as essential the wisdom and perspective that traveled individuals bring back to their respective cultures. Only the breaking of artificial of ‘comfort zones’ allows one’s perceptions on life to grow. The entrapment of America’s youth in college debt might be very profitable for the leadership, but it contributes greatly to the uniquely American absence of wisdom and perspective in domestic America.  The one great common denominator in life is to recognize that we are all the same – a perspective and factual realization almost impossible for those who never leave home. 

Jeffrey C. Lowe

CEO ASG & Asian Sky Media

Jeffrey has almost 40 years of Engineering, Marketing and Sales experience in commercial and business aviation. He is currently Chief Executive Officer for Asian Sky Group Ltd. & Asian Sky Media Ltd. in Hong Kong. Asian Sky Group is the largest business aviation consulting group in the Asia-Pacific region with 20 employees & six (6) offices. Asian Sky Media is a four-time, award winning media company that assist clients with brand development and positioning in Asia-Pacific, publishes industry-leading reports on the business jet, helicopter, and charter fleets in Asia-Pacific, as well as reports on general aviation, infrastructure and training schools across the region. In September 2021 it will host the first ever fully immersive Asia-Pacific Virtual Exhibition & Conference for business aviation, where attendees will be able to visit a familiar trade show setting with booths & static displays and interact with companies and other attendees, all live virtually from the comfort of their own office or home.

Holger Ostheimer

Managing Director, DC Aviation Al-Futtaim

Holger is the Managing Director of DC Aviation Al-Futtaim in Dubai. A joint venture business between the DC Aviation Group and the Dubai based international business conglomerate Al-Futtaim.

He has been advising both JV partners in the making of the organization before taking on managing
the live business in 2012.

During the buildup stages Holger formed a team in Dubai to provide technical expertise on developing
the hangar facility structure, establishing all operational, administrative and commercial structures, as
well as obtaining a UAE aircraft operator certificate and a CAR 145 maintenance organization.

Originally educated at Frankfurt’s Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Germany in the area of
Sports Science, Biology and Education he built his career with extensive experience in the areas of
airline operations, aircraft brokerage, flight support as well as obtaining a commercial flight crew
license back in 2001.

Holger is a passionate business professional with a strong emphasis on premium quality operations
and an understanding for people relations.

Yuri Dzun

Callies Graefe Design

Aviation passionate, working in the industry since 2010. Responsible for Sales and Marketing activities in Callies Graefe Design as well as participating in other aviation B2B platform project development.  Born in Siberia in 1985, accomplished first degree in Haifa University (Israel), and has continued to Moscow, where used to work in business aviation field, including charters, business development and sales fields. In 2014 has moved to Rome (Italy), where has completed MBA Aviation Management degree at LUISS Business School. Today he based in Bergamo (Italy) and happily working with the business aviation market.

Tim Callies

Callies Grafe Design

Warja Borges

Designer, Unique Aircraft

Born and grown up in Munich, I love to travel, to learn about foreign cultures, lifestyle and history. Since I was young, I was always creative in many different ways which logically lead to the decision to study design.

After 4 years of studying interior architecture and some years of practice creating interiors for residences and offices, I got the chance to work with Reiner Heim Aircraft Interior Design, based in Munich.

For ten years I was with his team designing bespoke interiors for various customers and aircraft types mainly in cooperation with a well-known completion center.

After many fruitful years with Reiner Heim I decided to start my own business and become an independent designer. Since 2010 I have been working with clients and aviation facilities worldwide.

My brand name UNIQUE AIRCRAFT arose from a sentence a customer representative said to me once: “YOU were the one who made our aircraft UNIQUE”

My passion is to design interiors making the passengers forget the inconvenience of long-distance travels. My target is to create an atmosphere of recreation and energy recharging. Using colours and materials to support this aspect as well as studying cultural and traditional styles and implementing  those in the design is one of my key preferences.

Peter Robson

Luxury & VVIP Aircraft Interior Specialist, Qabin Interiors

Tobias Laps

Executive Vice President Sales, Comlux

After graduating from the University of Stuttgart and the Georgia Institute of Technology both with a Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering Tobias Laps started his career at Jet Aviation in Basel in aircraft completions in 1999 as an engineer. Spending 5 years at Jet Aviation he was promoted to engineering project coordinator after only 6 months and Sales & Program Manager after 2 and half years selling various completion projects. After that he worked for 4 years at a subsidiary of Saab in Hamburg as a Branch Manager winning customers and growing the business significantly. He then was offered a job at ExecuJet in aircraft sales and later as a General Manager of the Berlin facility. Before joining Comlux, he was recruited as Head of Sales at RUAG in Munich in the area of business aircraft maintenance and refurbishment where he was able to secure large cabin modification and refurbishment projects.

Tobias also holds a Private Pilot License since 20 years and is passionate about aviation.

Tobias joined the Comlux team in November of 2015 as Vice President Sales for Western Europe, Asia and India. In 2018, Tobias is appointed Senior Vice President, Head of Sales for Large VIP Aircraft.

In 2019, Tobias is promoted Executive Vice President Commercial, Large VIP aircraft

David Best

SVP & GM, Jet Aviation

Michael Farley

Founder & CEO, Outlier Jets