ELFC - Key Persons


Aoife Fennell - CTO, EVP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technical Officer
  • Executive Vice President
  • Member of the Executive Management Team
  • Executive Vice President & Chief Technical Officer / Ireland
Ms. Fennell is Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer for elfc. Aoife joined elfc in 2000 with responsibility for asset management. She was then promoted to the position of Manager of the EMEA technical team where she was responsible for leading the asset management, spare engine portfolio operations and technical commercial support for the customers and engines in that region. In 2022 Aoife was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer with overall responsibility for the technical function Aoife has over 25 years aviation experience gained in airline, MRO and leasing roles. She holds a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from University of Limerick, a diploma from the Law Society of Ireland and has held previous positions at TEAM Aer Lingus and FLS Aerospace prior to her current role.

Audrey Constable

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Technical / Ireland

Avril Comerford

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer / Ireland

Barry Flynn

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Technical / Ireland

Barry O'Connor

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President Finance / Ireland

Ben Austin

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Powerplant Engineer / Ireland

Breda Frawley

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Officer

Bregeen Brennan

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager / Ireland

Brenda Costello

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Legal / Ireland

Brenda Nicholls

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President Legal / Ireland

Bruce Ross

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President Legal / Ireland

Cathal Egan

Job Titles:
  • Powerplant Engineer / Ireland

Cathal Ryan

Job Titles:
  • Tax & Treasury Analyst

Ciaran McGlynn

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Sales & Marketing - EMEA
  • Vice President Sales & Marketing - EMEA / China

Cliodhna Barrett

Job Titles:
  • Receptionist & Administrator / Ireland

Colette Neville

Job Titles:
  • Account Payable Specialist / Ireland

Connor Shorten

Job Titles:
  • Junior Lawyer / Ireland

Conor O'Brien

Job Titles:
  • Powerplant Engineer / Ireland

Darragh Cox

Job Titles:
  • Powerplant Manager / Ireland

Darren Reilly

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President Portfolio

Darren Wormald - Chief Legal Officer, EVP

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President
  • General Counsel
  • Member of the Executive Management Team
  • Executive Vice President & General Counsel / Ireland
Mr. Wormald is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for elfc. Darren is an English law qualified barrister who previously worked as in-house Legal Counsel at UBS AG and Lehman Brothers Europe. Now based in London he has over 20 years of experience in delivering legal advice, risk management and transaction support/execution in the spare engine leasing/finance sector. Darren has worked on a number of industry leading transactions including the acquisition of Macquarie Engine Leasing (2011) and a KG engine portfolio transaction (2007) that were each given the Airfinance Journal`s Engine Deal of the Year Award.

Declan Madigan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President Remarketing

Declan Sheedy - CFO, EVP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Executive Vice President
  • Member of the Executive Management Team
  • Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer / Ireland
Mr. Sheedy is Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer for elfc. Declan joined elfc in 2004 as Finance Manager and since then has been involved in all the key milestone transactions of the Company from a finance and commercial perspective. Declan assumed responsibility for the Human Resource function in 2017 and currently manages a total team of 11 in the Shannon headquarters across both the finance and HR functions. Prior to elfc he worked as a Finance Manager for a US based international retailer for 3 years. Declan has over 18 years' experience in the aviation leasing industry. In 1999 he graduated from the University of Limerick with Bachelor of Business Studies degree, majoring in Economics and Finance and followed this by qualifying as an accountant with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountant in 2001. In 2012, Declan completed and received an MBA in Aviation Management in the University of Limerick.

Ed Colleran - Chief Risk Officer, EVP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Risk Officer
  • Executive Vice President
  • Executive Vice President & Chief Risk Officer / Ireland
Mr Colleran is Executive Vice President & Chief Risk Officer for elfc. Ed joined elfc in 2012, he has over 18 years Aviation experience and is responsible for managing a team of 5 analysts with global coverage, based out of our Shannon office. Ed's career has covered both aircraft leasing - initially with RBS Aviation Capital (now SMBC) and then AWAS (now DAE). Previously he also worked in Bank of Ireland in Corporate Banking, Business banking and Credit Audit. He is a Graduate of University College Galway and the University College Dublin Smurfit Business School.

Ed Connolly

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President Capital Markets

Eduardo Fuchs

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Sales & Marketing - Americas

Eoghan McGrath

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources and Payroll Administrator / Ireland

Eoghan O'Doherty Fitzgerald

Job Titles:
  • Tax & Treasury Assistant

Fodhla Glover

Job Titles:
  • Risk Analyst / Ireland

Geraldine Quirke

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President Finance Operations / Ireland

Gill Grimes

Job Titles:
  • Technical Administrator / Ireland

Greeshma Gopi

Job Titles:
  • Powerplant Engineer / Ireland

Helge Pistor

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Sales & Marketing Asia Pacific

James Alderson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President Legal / Ireland

Jason Mulderrig

Job Titles:
  • Powerplant Engineer / United States

Jean Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Compliance Analyst / Ireland

Jean Scanlon

Job Titles:
  • Contracts Specialist / Singapore

Jennifer Byrne

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Receivable Associate / UK

Joe Hussar

Job Titles:
  • Executive Management and Portfolio
  • Executive Vice President & Head of Portfolio
Mr Hussar is Executive Vice President & Head of Portfolio for elfc Corporation. Joe Hussar began his career in aviation in 1995 while employed at BTM Capital Corporation remarketing aircraft for owned and serviced portfolios. In 2002, he joined elfc Corporation with his current role serving as Executive Vice President & Head of Portfolio overseeing all activities related to remarketing, portfolio servicing, syndication and capital markets. Joe is a 1992 graduate of the Bryant University School of Management and in 1996 received a Masters of Business Administration with a Finance concentration from the Sawyer School of Management at Suffolk University.

John Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President Risk / Ireland

John Riordan

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Risk / Ireland

Josh Symanski - VP of Sales

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Sales & Marketing

Julian Jordan

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President & Head of New Business

Justin Phelan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing
  • Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing / Singapore

Keith Naughton

Job Titles:
  • Financial Accountant / Ireland

Kevin Dillon

Job Titles:
  • Powerplant Engineer / Ireland

Laura Scanlon

Job Titles:
  • Junior Lawyer / Ireland

Lisa Fitzgerald

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Administrator

Lisa Ryan

Job Titles:
  • Technical Records Specialist

Lorna McNamara

Job Titles:
  • Technical Administrator / Ireland

Maeve O'Dwyer

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Insurance / Ireland

Maria Frost

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Human Resources / Ireland

Marina Bay

Job Titles:
  • Financial

Martina Forde

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President Legal / Ireland

Mary Cronin

Job Titles:
  • Powerplant Engineer / Ireland

Masanori Nabeshima

Job Titles:
  • AVP Office of the Chairman / Ireland

Michael McCormack

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Risk / UK

Michael Morrissey

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Legal

Michelle O'Brien

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President Compliance / Ireland

Mr Yuichiro Noguchi - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Executive Management Team
  • Chairman / UK
Mr Yuichiro Noguchi became Chairman of elfc in June 2019. Mr. Noguchi also holds a position at Jackson Square Aviation Ireland Limited. Until May 2019, he held the position of Deputy General Manager and Executive Expert, Aviation Business Department (ABD) at Mitsubishi HC Capital (MHC). After 20+ years of experience in aviation finance/ structured finance field, Mr. Noguchi joined MHC in 2009. Since then, he has held various positions, including: Product Syndication Office responsible for JOLCO equity underwriting and distribution, secondment to Jackson Square Aviation (JSA) in San Francisco for post-merger integration of JSA after its acquisition by MHC. Mr. Noguchi's relationship with elfc started in 2016, as Deputy General Manager of ABD to oversee the company and work closely with elfc management and staffs. Mr. Noguchi holds a Bachelor of Economics from Aoyama Gakuin University.

Neil Harrington

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Technical / United States

Niall Woods

Job Titles:
  • Management Accountant / Brazil

Noel Hoban

Job Titles:
  • IT Business Systems Manager / Ireland

Oisin Reilly

Job Titles:
  • Powerplant Engineer / Ireland

Olaf Knuth

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Sales & Marketing Middle East & Asia

Philip Bushell

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Legal / Ireland

Richard Hough - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Member of the Executive Management Team
  • Chief Operating Officer / Ireland
Mr. Hough is the Chief Operating Officer for elfc. Richard started his career in aviation in 1990 as an apprentice aircraft maintenance technician with Shannon Aerospace and after qualification was appointed team leader of the engines team. Over the following five years he obtained various maintenance engineer licenses and approvals for both airframe and engine. In April 1997 he joined elfc as Technical Services Manager. His early role involved a mixture of technical, sales and marketing research functions. In 2000 he was promoted to the position of Vice President Technical with responsibility for asset management, engine valuations and technical aspects of contract negotiation. In 2009 Richard was promoted to the position of Senior Vice President Technical, with responsibility for day to day operations of the technical department including management of a portfolio of 200+ engines. In 2011 he was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer with overall responsibility for the technical function of elfc, a position he held until taking up his current role as Chief Operating Officer in January 2022. In addition to his aeronautical engineering licenses, Richard has a Diploma in Business Studies (Hons) from the National University of Ireland and an MBA in Aviation Management from the University of Limerick.

Rory O'Donnell

Job Titles:
  • Powerplant Engineer / Ireland

Shane Fenton

Job Titles:
  • Sales & Marketing Associate

Shane Hennessy

Job Titles:
  • Portfolio Sales Associate

Shane O'Callaghan

Job Titles:
  • Commercial Strategy

Shauna Mulvaney

Job Titles:
  • Powerplant Engineer / Ireland

Shelly Xie

Job Titles:
  • Sales & Marketing Associate - PRC

Sinead Collins

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Finance / Ireland

Thomas Caulfield

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Commercial Strategic Analysis

Tom Barrett - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Member of the Executive Management Team
  • President
  • President & CEO / Ireland
Mr. Barrett is the President & CEO of elfc. Shortly after elfc was launched in 1990 Tom was employed in the role of financial accountant. In the period since 1990 he has been involved in every transaction that the Company has conducted, notably the 1996 acquisition by BTMUCC, the 1998 creation of the Aviation Lease Finance joint venture with Volvo Aero, 2011 acquisition of the Macquarie engine portfolio. Since 2002 he has managed the Company's syndication platform that has led to the successful creation of five partly owned or managed collaborations with Sumitomo Corporation, DVB Bank, MHC, GSI KG Funds and Mitsubishi Corporation. Tom is a 1985 business graduate of the University College Dublin and qualified with KPMG as a Chartered Accountant in 1988.

Vassil Vassilev

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Sales & Marketing - CIS, India & Turkey

Yajie Li

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Sales & Marketing - China

Yu Miyatake

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President Office of the Chairman / Spain

Yvonne Walsh

Job Titles:
  • Finance Assistant / Ireland