Robert Baltus' aviation experience spans nearly 20 years advising and supporting senior management and executive Boards of a variety of aviation related companies. He has worked for aircraft management, fractional and charter operators and has built strong relationships with the leading business aviation companies in the industry.  A business aviation specialist, Baltus is experienced in start-ups, fleet selection, training and strategic change management.

As Chief Operating Officer of the EBAA, Robert oversees a team of experts to monitor and provide analysis on European aviation policies, and is responsible for member engagement with events such as EBACE, EBAA Safety Summit and AirOps.

He has a business management degree from HES Amsterdam and an MSc in Air Transport Management from Cranfield University, was a JAA Accountable manager and is a Commercial Pilot rated on the Boeing 737.

Gian Andrea Bandieri is responsible for the EASA team dealing with cybersecurity in aviation, which includes rulemaking, information sharing, threat identification, capacity building and research.

He joined EASA in 2007 as standardization team leader in airworthiness, later moving to coordination and cross-domain issues including safety management and in risk-based oversight.

Bandieri started in aviation in 1992 with the Italian CAA as an airworthiness inspector.

He holds a master’s in aeronautical engineering from Politecnico di Torino and a master’s in aviation law from the University of Modena.

Tzvetomir Blajev is Flight Safety Foundation Director Europe and Global Operational Safety. Tzvetomir leads the Foundation European strategy development. As a global operational safety champion for the Foundation, Tzvetomir bridges research with practice to deliver global safety improvements in operations, including the global operational safety initiatives such as Global Action Plan for the Prevention of Runway Excursions, Conflict Zones Airspace Risk, Global Action Plan for the Prevention of Runway Incursions and Learning From All Operations. 

Tzvetomir is the EUROCONTROL Operational Safety Coordinator, leading the process to identify operational safety hazards for the ATM network, formulating the Top 5 safety priorities and managing the corresponding operational safety studies and safety knowledge management. 

Tzvetomir has over 30 years of experience in aviation, leading collaborative interdisciplinary teams for safety improvements, including global reforms to tackle specific operational safety risks and managing teams to develop the world’s largest aviation knowledge base SKYbrary. 

Kyle is responsible for Crew Training at VistaJet and a current TRI/E on the Bombardier Global 6000.

Kyle started his career in aviation 29 years ago in New Zealand, where he first got his pilot’s licence. Subsequently, his passion for flying took him to Africa, and then the UK, where he flew for a regional airline for 6 years.

Kyle joined VistaJet in 2011, initially as a flight crew member on both short-haul and long-haul fleets before taking an office-based role in a flight operations management with additional responsibilities including fatigue management.

DR RYAN COPELAND

REGIONAL MEDICAL DIRECTOR, ASSISTANCE – Europe, Middle East & Africa

Based in London

Key Topics: Medical assistance, remote healthcare support, telehealth, quality assurance and governance, travel risk management.

Dr Ryan Copeland is responsible for the delivery of medical assistance services across EMEA. Ryan oversees a platform of doctors and nurses who provide medical support to International SOS and MedAire clients, the coordination of medical transportations and support of Remote Health Care sites across the region.  

Ryan undertook his medical training in South Africa with a specific focus on emergency medicine and trauma, working in both the public and private healthcare sectors. Ryan then moved over to the UK in 2003 where he continued with his emergency medicine training in London before joining International SOS as a Coordinating Doctor in 2007.

In his current role Ryan has responsibility for the medical assistance and medical aviation related services provided by the London, Paris, Madrid, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, and Dubai Assistance Centres. The main responsibilities include client health partnership, medical provider network strategy, medical professional career development and training, quality and governance, aeromedical transportation, telehealth and digital transformation.          

Andrew Douglas is the Founder of Make Tech Fly having been involved in aviation for over 14 years. Prior to that, he had a successful career as a military engineer. Douglas’ vision is for tech that helps everybody do their tasks simpler, easier and faster. A keen skier, moderate golfer and a hopeless cricketer, Douglas is fortunate enough that life in Scotland provides opportunities for all three.

Simon is responsible for the Training & the Standards for Shell Aircraft based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Simon joined Shell Aircraft in 2008 in Calgary, Canada as Performance/Training Captain. Subsequently he moved to The Netherlands to join the corporate fleet.

With Shell Aircraft he has worked with his team to develop fit for purpose Fatigue risk management, EFB, FDM, Aircraft Performance, Peer Support, Human Factors, training framework, SOPs and a departmental working and operating culture with a team proud to deliver. He keeps looking for opportunities to improve and develop based on SMS principles of plan do check and act.

Simon has spent time operating in the high artic, Antarctic, East/central Africa. His aviation background has been relief, Cargo, Airline and Corporate Flight operations.

Suzy has over 20 years’ experience in safety critical roles and joined the Luxaviation Group in 2017 as the European Safety Manager for ExecuJet Europe. In May 2023 she was appointed the role of GSO, where she is now responsible for the development of the Luxaviation Group Safety and Compliance Strategy, including the Emergency Response Plan.

Suzy began her PhD in Emergency Preparedness with Coventry University in 2021, where her research is focused on emergency preparedness for European Business Aviation Operators. She also holds an MSc in Human Factors and Safety Assessment in Aeronautics from Cranfield University.

Suzy is also an operational pilot and flies the Citation XLS for Luxaviation UK, based out of Luton.

Colin Gill

Colin’s career started  as an air traffic controller in the Royal Air Force and he subsequently held managerial positions including developing and delivering the Safety Management System for all RAF air traffic control and air defence units.

In 2007, Colin moved into civil aviation safety regulation, holding several roles in the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), culminating in being a member of the CAA Safety Strategy Team. During this time he was the chair of the ICAO ATM OPS Panel, a member of various EASA and Eurocontrol drafting and working groups, and led many UK safety programmes including the London 2012 Olympics Aviation Safety Project.

Colin was appointed to his current position of Isle of Man Deputy Director of Civil Aviation in 2016. He is responsible for the Isle of Man’s aviation safety and security legislation, policy and oversight activities, including the Isle of Man Aircraft Registry.

Joel HENCKS is the Managing Director of AeroEx GmbH, an aviation consulting company based

in Switzerland offering a wide range of services to both commercial and non-commercial aviation organizations.

Joel Hencks is a professional pilot. He flew for different airlines, air ambulances and on demand air charter operators.

Beside his airline transport licence, he is holding a technical degree in electronics and is an IBAC International Standard for Business Aircraft Operations (IS-BAO) accredited auditor.

Chris has been working with FDM data for 17 years. Qualifying as a Computer Scientist with a research based Masters of Philosophy in artificial intelligence, Chris designed and wrote much of the L3Harris flight data analysis platform, which has processed 30M flight data recorder flights from over 15,000 aircraft. Looking towards to the Big Data future, Chris created a Data Science team and is leading the product roadmap for Data Fusion and Machine Learning insights to improve aviation safety and efficiency.

Davide Martini serves since March 2016 as Senior Cybersecurity Expert at EASA, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency.
His recent work spans various aspects of cybersecurity in the aviation domain, from coordinating the development of a European cybersecurity in aviation strategy, managing the foundation of a European Centre for Cybersecurity in Aviation (ECCSA) and contributing to the development of the EASA regulatory framework for the management of information security risks in aviation. He also engages in high-level education as a guest lecturer on subjects related to cybersecurity in aviation.
Prior to his current role, Davide spent more than 15 years in the aviation industry. Before joining EASA, he served as Engineering Manager for Leonardo - Helicopters Division, where he was responsible for the development of systems and services supporting aircraft’s operations, ranging from mission analysis, flight planning, health and usage data analysis, maintenance schedule optimisation, as well as field loading of avionic software.
He holds a master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan.

Dr. Daniel Mollicone is Chief Scientist and CEO of Pulsar Informatics. He holds degrees in engineering physics and biomedical engineering and has played an active role in the development of the field of fatigue risk management. Dr. Mollicone has acted as principal investigator on research funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia, Transport Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Bruce Parry is an experienced sustainability and environmental professional who has worked within the aviation industry in a variety of capacities supporting these subjects for more than twenty years.

As Senior Advisor, Industry Affairs for Bombardier, Parry represents Bombardier as liaison with the industry and represents the organisation at all levels focusing on key stakeholder groups for the business aviation sector including civil aviation agencies, trade organisations and other key industry bodies on a wide variety of industry subjects.

Prior to his current role at Bombardier, Parry held roles as Senior Environment Manager for the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) and Environment Director for the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) concurrently. Parry has represented business aviation at a variety of levels, both from a European and international perspective on environmental and sustainability matters. He served as UN Observer on behalf of IBAC and the business aviation community at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) within the Committee on Aviation and Environmental Protection (CAEP).

With a background in environmental engineering, and working for both Airbus and Bombardier, Parry’s experience extends from environmental requirements and considerations in aircraft product development to corporate social responsibility and sustainability. He also contributed to the development of the original and subsequent updates to the Business Aviation Commitment on Climate Change (BACCC) and the process to develop Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for commercial and business aircraft. Parry holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Quality and Resource Management from the University of the West of England in the UK.

Jesper Rasmussen has been director for Flight Standards in EASA since 2017. He is responsible for the development of regulations and oversight (standardisation) of EU National Authorities in the domains of Aircraft Maintenance, Production, Air Operations, Aircrew & Training and Aerodromes. His responsibilities also cover approval & oversight of production, maintenance and training organisations mainly outside the EU.

Prior to joining EASA Jesper Rasmussen was the deputy director general in the Danish transport authority, where he since 2012 has been responsible for aviation safety as well as railway safety.

Before entering into aviation, Jesper Rasmussen occupied for 20 years other posts in the Danish central government administration in the Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Industry. Jesper Rasmussen has a Ph.d in social sciences.

Hannah started her career in aviation 25 years ago as a crew and flight scheduler  for a fixed-wing charter company in Botswana, flying tourists in and around the Okavango Delta. In 2004 Hannah co-founded a helicopter charter company, also based in Northern Botswana, and acted as Director and Operation’s Manager for 12 years.

Following this, Hannah headed up a maintenance facility and aircraft parts shop, before moving to Malta to join VistaJet as Safety Analyst and Crew Fatigue Officer in 2022. 

Jonny was appointed Safety Manager/Security Manager for TAG Aviation in October 2016. Jonny joined TAG Aviation in November 2014 as a Crew Training Instructor at TAG Global Training, where he helped to construct and deliver ground school training to TAG Pilots, Cabin Crew and Third-Party Clients. Jonny is responsible for managing the Safety Management System within TAG Aviation Europe and is also responsible for overseeing operational security.

A graduate in computer sciences (Paris XI university) and aerospace equipment (Paris IX), Cyrille Rosay is now working as Senior Expert Cybersecurity in Aviation Safety Management Directorate of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) since 2006. His task is to focus on cyber security aspects for the airworthiness of civil aircrafts and is actively involved in standardisation groups related to aviation systems security as chairperson of EURCOAE WG-72, and as chairperson of the European Cybersecurity Standardisation Coordination Group (ECSCG).

Before joining EASA he was working as a software certification expert for the French Defence Agency and before as a project manager, in the same defence agency. He has logged thousands flight hours as a IFR multi-engines pilots during his time in the French MoD.

Clint started his career in aviation as a handling agent at Air Malta, thereafter moving to Medavia as an operations officer. There he played a crucial role in the smooth running of the many flights that the company flew from Tripoli deep into the Libyan desert, at a time when Medavia was the undisputed leader in the Libyan market for FIFO flights. 
Clint joined Transport Malta - Civil Aviation Directorate (TM-CAD) in 2013 and prior to joining EASA in October 2022, he was the Head of the Flight Operations Inspectorate.

15 years Airline as Fleet Technical Pilot, various fleets (EMB145/RJ100/MD80/MD90/A320)

7 years Business Aviation as Management Member, as Flight Operations Manager and Safety and Compliance Manager

Management pilot on Gulfstream G650

Happily Married with 1 son

Living in Switzerland

Maxime started flying gliders at the age of 13 in the Belgian Ardennes. After graduating high school, he started his commercial pilot training and simultaneously started working for a major flight training organisation, holding various functions, including Safety Manager.

After having spent almost 10 years in the airline pilot training industry, period during which he also followed various aviation-related and management courses, Maxime started his career in the business aviation industry by joining ASL Group in Belgium, both as a pilot and as Safety Manager, ending up being responsible for 2 AOCs and 2 CAMO organisations. Nowadays, Maxime has established his own aviation management and consulting firm, specialized in safety management, project management and innovation. He also flies as Captain on the Embraer Legacy 450 and 500.

Maxime is the proud father of a 7-year-old boy, got recently married, and is passionate about music, philosophy, martial arts, motorbikes, sailing and foreign cultures.

Programme Director for the International Standard for Business Aircraft Handling (IS-BAH™). Commenced business aviation career in 1984 with McAlpine Aviation based at Luton Airport, stayed with the GEC Marconi owned MAGEC Aviation becoming Flight Operations and Charter Sales Manager with responsibilities for the day to day ground operations of the London based award winning FBO.

Prior to joining the IS-BAH™ Programme for IBAC worked for Air Routing International / Rockwell Collins as Manager Ground Operations Standards & Development (Europe/North Africa) responsible for coordination and supervision (ground logistics) of ad-hoc business aviation flights operating to and from the UK’s various airports for a major International flight service company. In 1999 gained BS EN ISO 9002:1994 QMS approval later receiving approval to BS EN ISO 9001:2008.

Wide range of exposure over the years to all levels of activities from suppliers to end users including Head of State. Former industry association representative at a number of high level meetings including those connected with the planning for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Regular attendee at International business aviation events making a number of presentations. Council member and previous deputy Chairman for the British Business & General Aviation Association (BBGA), past Chair of the EBAA Airport Handling and Ground Operations Committee (AHGOC) and council member (and Treasurer) of the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC).

Yngvi has a diverse carrier path. A private pilot with ATP theroy and a cameraman and editor for a Channel 2 TV and other media channels in Iceland for 13 years. He has a BSc in Computer Science and launched/developed the occurrence reporting system for the Icelandic CAA. While adding a masters degree in project management with his work at the authority, Yngvi received a position as a safety analyst at EASA in 2012. He is currently a Domain Safety Risk Manager for General Aviation and Sailplanes and works also with the Safaety Promotion section on frameworks and video projects and managed projects with the Commission on the implementation of the European Risk Classification Scheme by leading working groups and creating the ERCS online learning module.