George O'Neill

• In charge of all Asian business
• General Manager Dubai Office
• Placing 5x A330-300s in Thailand and Sri Lanka
• 2x Q400s with REX Airlines Australia
• Restructuring 3x A321s with Bamboo Airlines, Vietnam and 2x A320s with PIA, Pakistan
• Evaluating new funding methods notably JOLCO’s and Middle Eastern bank debt
• Managing Asian exposure in China, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, Korea and Singapore.

• Overseeing commercial activity Africa, India, Middle East, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Bhutan and Indian Ocean Islands
• Experienced in trading, SLB and the placement of new and second-hand narrow-body, regional and wide-body aircraft
• Notable transactions: Placing over 50 aircraft into India
• SLB of 8x A321neo and 12x ATR72-600s with Indigo, India
• SLB of 8x 737-800s with EgyptAir
• Awarded Alliance Air India RFP for 10x ATR72-600s
• Placing 23 of the 25 ATR72-600s that DAE had on spec order
• Restructuring numerous deals through Covid19 period in Kenya, Libya, Ethiopia, India
• Various narrowbody and widebody aircraft placements in Egypt, Libya, India, Germany, Ethiopia and Iceland.

• Role: Director and majority owner
• SoBo sold high end food, smoothies and coffees and was based in three locations in Dublin
• Over 20+ employees, sold the business in 2014.

• In charge of global commercial aircraft leasing/SLB strategy and sales team
• In one year, Elix had grown from 0 to 60+ Turbo Prop aircraft in all continents
• Hiring senior sales team
• Managing relationship with the OEMs
• Placing all new pipeline ATR72-600s with Alliance Air, India and Air Madagascar
• Purchasing 3x new Q400s from operator (LOT) and placing them with Island Air, USA
• Restructuring American Airlines transaction.
• Remained composed and highly professional in fast-paced and constantly changing environment, effectively handling challenging situations and difficult individuals to achieve objectives.

• In charge of commercial aircraft leasing/SLB in African continent, India and parts of Europe
• In charge of trading end of life assets (outside Americas)
• Enhancing new business in the form of loans and SLB transactions with CIT banking team
• Managing all technical and legal issues internally
• Managing airline customer relationships to include timely rent and reserve payments.

• Detailed financial analysis of aircraft deals
• Structured financial modeling and IRR evaluations for portfolio deals.

Developing new Scorecard Models to manage risk in conjunction with the Basel II Accord

• Optimizing credit card fraud prevention by detailed statistical analysis of fraud trends.