Managing Director

Seeking appropriate aviation-related or business development-related consulting work

Assembled a team of credible aviation associates at Northpoint Aviation Services including Cranfield University, who each brings different potential new business conversations.
Took a small Inverness air operator from £400,000 annual t/o to £11,000,000 t/o between 1997 & 2009.
Pioneered completely new markets for the company – airfreight, public subsidised scheduled passenger services, won contracts with Bae Systems and Babcock Naval, won aerial reconnaissance contract from Scottish Executive for Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency, won oil and gas charter work in Aberdeen. Most of these contracts would have been in the range £1 - £1.5m annualised turnover.
Built the Highland Airways brand into a well-respected regional operator. Acted as the spokesman and ambassador for the airline. This included networking with public representatives MPs, MSPs and councilors, civil servants, industry and business association leaders and liaising with our customers. It also included dealing with the TV, radio and press.
Acted as the wordsmith, bard and diplomat for the company in the writing of credential and corporate materials including the company vision, mission, values, business plans and company policies. He was editor of the North Magazine for two years, and eventually produced their own inflight magazine
Cultivated the in-house customer-facing skills required to run scheduled air services which included website, online booking engine, call centre(s) – bilingual, passenger policies and procedures, a customer service function and managing the ground handling function. Coincidentally and alongside other duties also managed an airport information desk for three years.

1963 - 1971 Bangor Grammar School, Northern Ireland
11 O-Levels:- 2 x English and English Literature, Maths and Additional Maths, Geography, History, German, Physics, Chemistry, Geology
3 A-Levels:- English; Geography; History (All Grade A)
1972 - 1976 Emmanuel College, Cambridge University
Awarded B.A. (Hons) (II i) 1976 in GEOGRAPHY and EDUCATION
Awarded 1976 Post Graduate Certificate in Education (p.g.c.e.)
Awarded 1979 M.A. from the University
1990 Cranfield University College of Management
Part time 6 month course in Business Enterprise Development Programme
2002 Cranfield University Dept. of Air Transport Management
Air Transport Management short course

Have very useful network of contacts and associates to undertake diverse business and aviation projects. More information on http://uk.linkedin.com/in/basilofee