AVIADO PARTNERS ADVISORY SERVICES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Partner
- Senior Associate
- Organizational Behaviour Specialist
Dario is a highly experienced organizational behaviour specialist and is our expert in corporate governance, organizational design and human resources solutions. He supports clients around the world working closely with Boards and executive management to design & implement change strategies. Dario has previously led international HR organisations in KPMG and BearingPoint and has assisted clients with performance improvement to executive coaching.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
George Reeleder has over 30 years aviation experience and has held key leadership roles at Air Canada, Caribbean Airlines and airlines in Asia in a wide variety of areas including Chief Commercial Officer, Marketing, Network Planning, Scheduling deploying a fleet of over 300 aircraft, as well as senior operations roles as General Manager of Air Canada's hubs in Toronto and Vancouver. He was key to ACs transformation following bankruptcy in 2005.
Based in Montreal, Canada, George is an airline expert with over 30 years of experience in nearly every area of the aviation business. His major successes have focused on implementing responses to competitive challenges, network planning, transforming and improving operations and implementing changes and new products. He has worked across Canada, USA, Brazil and Europe.
Michael is an expert in digitization and an industry leader in cyber security, organizational risk management, and compliance. He focuses on connecting people with technology across diverse cultures to enhance decision making, reduce costs, and drive innovation. His leadership experience includes Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Merck KGaA, as well as senior roles with the US Air Force, US Department of Defense (DoD), US Counter Narcotics Task Force, and US Army.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Geschäftsführer ( Managing Director )
Shakeel leads the firm's capabilities in restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, commercial strategy, as well as competition and anti-trust. Having started his career as a wing design engineer at Bombardier Aerospace, he has held senior management roles across Operations and Commercial in Air Canada and Lufthansa Group and has consulted airlines, railways, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and government around the world.
Based near Frankfurt, Germany, Shakeel is the Managing Director of Aviado Partners and is a recognized leader in airline restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, commercial strategy and airport growth strategy. Conventional approaches have proven time and time again to most often fail to deliver long-lasting results. Having established himself as one of the world's leading advisors on airline restructuring and turnaround, Shakeel usually departs from such conventional approaches. His particular approach to restructuring business of all sizes speaks for itself with a very strong track record of successful turnarounds in cross-cultural environments around the world.
Shakeel focuses on developing and executing bottom-line improvements with particular experience in airline operational and commercial restructuring and turnaround management, strategic planning, partner strategy (including M&A, alliances and JVs), network and fleet planning, and organisational design. He has extensive operational and senior management experience with top tier airlines and aircraft manufacturers, and as an airline consultant, has advised clients worldwide, most recently advising Boards, executives, government and even a European Prime Minister.
Prior to establishing Aviado Partners, Shakeel was the global aviation lead at Grant Thornton UK LLP where he led the consolidation of a global aviation sector practice offering. As a result of this effort, Shakeel initially led the establishment of a centre of excellence spinoff within Grant Thornton UK LLP, ultimately resulting in the establishment of an independant boutique aviation sector specialist consultancy. After tremendous growth and market acceptance, Shakeel led a further spinoff to form Aviado Partners as a top tier boutique consultancy with a strict focus on leadership level management consultancy and practical support for airlines, airports, railways and other key transport-sector and related industries.
Shakeel also previously led the global airline restructuring and commercial consulting practices at Lufthansa Group prior to which he was Director Operations Innovations with Air Canada. A licensed pilot, he began his aviation career as a design engineer at Bombardier Aerospace in Canada where he worked on the Q400, Global Express and Learjet programmes. In addition to aviation experience, Shakeel was the interim President and CEO of a US-based start-up oil & gas exploration company with operations in Russia which he successfully took to the public markets, and worked with a US-based boutique technology strategy consultancy advising clients such as Sprint, Nextel, Bell Canada and NTT Docomo.
Based near London, England Stephen is a highly experienced airline executive with more than 33 years in the industry. With a strong foundation in financial management, he has a particular focus on business structure, organization and management processes, reporting and governance.
Stephen has held a number of senior appointments at British Airways, was Deputy President at Royal Jordanian and Deputy CEO (Commercial) of NAS in Saudi Arabia where he led a complex aviation business including an all-business shorthaul airline, an executive jet business (NetJets Middle East) and established the first LCC in Saudi Arabia. Stephen has also been on the Board of Directors of numerous airlines in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.