THE TEAM
Founder & Group CEO
Luke Jenkinson
Founder of ELIRE Group and ventures of Infra & Aero, is a serial entrepreneur who has started and scaled global ventures. Luke applies innovation and creative solutions with a commercial mind set to real world challenges and purposes. Luke is a successful commercial entrepreneur having lead, started, scaled and divested several global companies already.
VP Airframe Engineering & Tech Integration
Gerry Egan
Gerry is an innovative and visionary executive with over 20 years’ experience solving large scale and complex problems in the airline, helicopter, aerospace, and MRO industries. He has led the electric aircraft revolution and delivered the world’s first all-electric powered commercial test flight in Dec 2019.
Group CTO
Rajeev Verma
Rajeev is current Chief Engineer at Lockheed Martin, where he has a demonstrated track record in overseeing cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams in design, transformation, and engineering capacities. Rajeev has experience of working with major players in the global Aerospace and Defence sectors, such as Boeing, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, NATS, and QinetiQ.
Group CFO
Sheereen Stewart
Sheereen is a Chartered accountant (ACA) with over 14 years of experience and joins us from KPMG. She has managed international M&A teams advising on transactions across real estate, infrastructure and the renewable energy sectors.
Sheereen managed the financial diligence of OTPPs c.$1bn investment in GICs international portfolio of offshore wind projects, Brookfield’s investment in Scotia Gas networks (SGN), and others.
VP Systems Engineering
Patrick Lane-Nott
Patrick is an operations, systems, and technology engineer with more than 27 years’ experience in project managing, executing and driving strategy to deliver cross-continent technical and data projects. Patrick is a Chartered Engineer and has Formula 1, automotive, construction, and heavy industry sector knowledge across both hardware and software domains coupled with substantial commercial and marketing experience.
VP Brand & Communications
Lix Axten
Liz is a senior brand and communications strategist with over 20 years’ experience building meaningful brands through engaging communications and live experiences. Specialising in sustainable mobility brands and smart cities, Liz works across key markets in Europe and the Middle East to connect game changing innovators with the communities whose lives they enrich.
VP Legal Affairs
Greg Leather
Greg is a partner in the Corporate/ Commercial and Dispute Resolution teams at Barringer Leather Lawyers. He advises listed corporations, private companies and individuals from a wide range of industries on all aspects of their corporate, commercial, property and financing dealings, including debt and capital raisings.
Advanced Air Mobility
Mo Ashmawy
Mo has a strong background in engineering, advisory, and engagement and has played a key role in the delivery of transit infrastructure projects around the globe. He has worked with leading companies such as Collins Aerospace and AECOM, where he led the successful delivery of complex aviation programs.
VP Investments
Farah Hijjawi
Farah has more than 10 years of experience in the financial services sector with a focus on the investment space. She has experience in both private and public sectors, where she worked at the Central Bank of Jordan, the Social Security Investment Fund, Cairo Amman Bank, INVESTBANK Group, and VentureX.
Airfreight, Transport & Logistic Partner
Phil Nowak
Phil is an experienced Airline Director with a demonstrated history of working in the aerospace industry. He has strong expertise in supplier management managing more than $300M USD annual expense for GE Aviation, continuous improvement, business development for airlines generating more than $4B USD revenue annually
Advanced Technologies
Joerg Janning
Joerg is a highly experienced engineering executive and CTO with a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Joerg has successfully development a high speed, high power medium voltage drive and industrial drives with the R&D team at Wolong Electrical. At GE Power Conversion he has led engineering experts teams (200 engineers, $300 Revenue)