Georgetown: LIAT Airlines on announced it has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The regional airline said the appointment of David Evans will be effective from April 22. Evans assumes the chief executive post, succeeding Julie Reifer-Jones, who had been Acting CEO since the resignation of Captain Ian Brunton in September 2013.
According to LIAT, the British national is a results-driven executive with more than 35 years of experience in senior roles within the aviation industry. Between 1975 and 1997, Evans served as Airport Manager, Country Manager, and Area Manager with British Airways in East Africa, Saudi Arabia, France, Philippines, China, Denmark, and the United States. In the latter role, he held responsibility for the airline’s activities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In 1997, he became Managing Director of British Airways Regional, a position he held until 2001 when he became Managing Director of British Airways CitiExpress and BA Connect, serving in that capacity for six years.
He joined the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2007 and under its auspices served as Chief Operating Officer of Zambian Airways in 2007.
In 2009, he joined Kuwaiti start-up airline Wataniya Airways as Chief Commercial Officer. Since then, he has provided strategic and commercial consultancy services to Egypt’s Nile Air and other organisations in the Middle East.
Evans, who speaks English, Spanish, French, German and Mandarin Chinese, holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Lancaster University and Combined Honours in Modern Languages from Wadham College, Oxford University.
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