Cardiff Aviation MRO, the fully-approved and certificated aviation maintenance company has recently appointed Phil Swanson as its Director of Sales and Marketing.
Phil is an aviation sales professional with wide experience of the aircraft MRO industry. He began his career with an aircraft engineering apprenticeship at British Aerospace and worked as an engineer on new production aircraft and military fast jets before promotion to senior management positions. Phil went on to develop the customer base of an aircraft maintenance company at BAE SYSTEMS where he established a long and successful career in maintenance sales. Phil was appointed Director of Sales at BAE SYSTEMS Asset Management in 2003 and placed more than fifty aircraft with airlines and operators world-wide.
Academically Phil has studied marketing at university and management at business school. As a self-certified aviation enthusiast Phil has a current private pilot’s license, he is also a member of the historic Shuttleworth Veteran Aeroplane Society at Old Warden in Bedfordshire.
Cardiff Aviation’s Chief Executive Mario Fulgoni commented that Phil’s aviation sales career, his passion for the industry and his previous senior management experience make him ideal to lead the Sales and Marketing team at Cardiff Aviation MRO.