AFG Appoints Gemade As Executive Vice President, COO

In a bold determination that underscores its committedness to innovation and excellence, Aviation Finance Group (AFG) has announced the assignment of Mr. Shiekuma Gemade arsenic its caller Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO).

A seasoned aviation enforcement with implicit 2 decades of planetary acquisition crossed craft operations, fleet strategy, and MRO leadership, Mr. Gemade’s awesome way grounds positions him arsenic a transformative summation to AFG’s enactment team.

Before joining Aircraft Finance Germany, Gemade served arsenic Head of Fleet astatine Riyadh Air, wherever helium spearheaded craft acquisitions, fleet planning, and improvement of 1 of the aviation industry’s astir ambitious caller fleet programs. His strategical penetration played a cardinal relation successful shaping the airline’s semipermanent craft roadmap.

He antecedently held elder roles astatine Atlas Air Worldwide and Titan Aviation Leasing, wherever helium managed a multi-billion-dollar lease portfolio of widebody freighters and oversaw analyzable craft transactions crossed the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. His enactment successful structuring and executing implicit $12 cardinal successful craft acquisitions and leasing deals has earned him wide manufacture respect.

Earlier successful his career, the appointee, Senator Barnabas Gemade’s son, Shiekuma, chopped his nonrecreational teeth astatine Delta Air Lines, advancing from engineering roles wrong Delta Technical Operations to operational leadership, optimizing show for the airline’s 450-aircraft DC fleet.

A arrogant Nigerian, Shiekuma Gemade began his aboriginal acquisition astatine Gboko, Benue State, and attended post-primary schoolhouse successful Jos, Plateau State, earlier pursuing higher studies abroad. He holds some a Bachelor of Science successful Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Science successful Aviation Management from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida—one of the world’s apical aviation universities. He is besides an FAA-licensed Private Pilot.

Welcoming him to the company, AFG described Mr. Gemade arsenic “a visionary person whose wealthiness of experience, innovation-driven mindset, and planetary vulnerability volition fortify AFG’s operational excellence and maturation trajectory.”

With this appointment, AFG looks acceptable to soar adjacent higher—anchored by a homegrown endowment whose vocation reflects the powerfulness of Nigerian brilliance connected the planetary aviation stage.