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The AFRA Board of Directors is comprised of aerospace leaders that reflect the association's diverse, international membership.
Martin Fraissignes - Executive Director
Châteauroux Airport - General Manager
France
Term 2009-2012
Martin Fraissignes helped launch AFRA as a founding member and has served as Executive Director since the association began in 2006. He was re-elected to an additional 3-year term in 2009. Mr. Fraissignes joined Châteauroux Airport - France in 1995 as General Manager.
Mr. Fraissignes has been working in the aerospace industry for almost 20 years. He was a consultant specializing in international business at CEGOS from 1980 through 1985 and then General Manager for a leading French freight forwarding company, specializing in air transport from 1985 through 1994.
Mr. Fraissignes is member of the French Foreign Trade Council and of the Executive Committee of TIACA (The International Air Cargo Association). He graduated from HEC-Paris Business School with a specialization in international management.
William Carberry - Deputy Director & Secretary
Boeing - Aircraft Recycling Project Manager
United States
Term 2009-2012
Bill Carberry is one of the original organizers of AFRA and has served
on the Board of Directors as Deputy Director since AFRA's inception in 2006. He was re-elected to an additional 3-year term in 2009. Mr. Carberry has been in the Boeing Product Development
group in Everett, WA since 2001 and has been with Boeing since 1997.
In 2003, Mr. Carberry was selected as Boeing's lead for retired aircraft recycling and
more recently as the company's commercial airplane focal for carbon
fiber recycling and reuse. He has worked in the environmental sciences field for over 30
years. Prior to joining Boeing, he managed a HazMat Emergency Response
contract under the US EPA.
Mr. Carberry has a Masters Degree in Environmental Health and an MBA in
Finance. He also served in the US Peace
Corps as a village health specialist in Mali, West Africa.
Denis Oliver - Treasurer
ELG Metals - Manager, Aerospace Business Development
United States
Term 2011-2014
After studying Law and Economics at Glasgow (Scotland) University, Denis Oliver qualified as a Chartered Accountant (CPA equivalent) with Ernst & Young in Glasgow.
He then had financial roles with commercial companies in London and Edinburgh and subsequently joined Ireland Alloys, a UK based alloy scrap recycling company, as CFO. In 1982 Ireland relocated him to the USA to manage the Group's growing US recycling interests in Houston, Chicago and Pittsburgh.
Oliver was subsequently appointed Group Chief Executive, responsible for all the Group's activities in US, UK and Eastern Europe. During this time the Group developed a world wide reputation as a leading recycler of complex, high temperature alloys, including Nickel, Chromium, Titanium, Cobalt, Columbium, Molybdenum, Tungsten etc. Many of these alloys are used in aircraft engine and other aerospace applications.
In 1998 the Group's US interests were sold to ELG Metals Inc, the World leader in stainless steel and alloy scrap recycling, with 44 locations, several of which specialize in aerospace alloy recycling. That includes solid parts, turnings from the machining of forgings etc, and the dismantling of whole engines. ELG is one of a handful of recyclers approved to supply processed scrap direct to all of the specialized (vacuum) melters, who produce new parts for aerospace applications. It participates in the recycling programs of two major engine OEMs, the US Air Force and various MRO companies.
ELG is pleased to have been a member of AFRA for several years.
Graham Carson
Rolls-Royce - Head of Materiel Business
United Kingdom
Term 2010-2013
Graham Carson is a founding member of AFRA and has been active with the association since 2006. He is Head of Materiel Business for Rolls-Royce in a division specializing buying and selling surplus and used parts and engines.
Mr. Carson spent four years in Marketing and Engineering positions with the MSA Company which manufactured Thermal Batteries for Missile Systems and Oxygen Masks for Military Aircraft. He joined Rolls-Royce in 1980 and held a number of Product Support Engineering Positions before moving into the parts business in 1992.
Mr. Carson is Chairman of Scottish Branch of the Rolls–Royce Heritage Trust. Mr. Carson is based at the Rolls-Royce MRO facility in East Kilbride, Glasgow, Scotland. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde and an MBA from University of Glasgow.
Bernard Comensoli
Research & Business Development (RBD S.A.) - CEO
Switzerland
Term 2011-2014
Mr. Comensoli is the co-founder and CEO of Research & Business Development – RBD S.A., an aviation consultancy firm established in Geneva-Switzerland since 1991. He has over 30 years of experience in various sectors of the aviation industry that include ground handling, airline operations, aircraft acquisitions and leasing as well as aircraft maintenance and disassembling.
Mr. Comensoli has been working extensively in Europe, Central Asia and Africa and has held operational and commercial managerial responsibility for cargo and passenger operators and has been retained on many wide-ranging airline consultancy for start-up projects and established Carriers.
Mr. Comensoli has gained enviable expertise in managing air operations in challenging environments as well as handling conflictual situations such as unfriendly aircraft repossessions and re-sale of assets. Since 2006, he has been involved in over 20 aircraft disassembling and parts remarketing operations.
Mr. Comensoli is a Swiss citizen and speaks English, French, German and Italian fluently. He holds a degree from Geneva Academy of Commerce.
Grégoire Lebigot
Valliere Aviation Group - CEO & Chairman
France
Term 2011-2013
Gregoire Lebigot is born in Tours (France) on 1970, December, the 30th. He is married and has four Daughters.
In 1989, he began his career in Aircraft Maintenance at Air France CDG line and base maintenance department on Concorde and Airbus Family (From A300 to A340). From 1994 to late 1999, he was working in Vietnam, China and Brazil (Air France and Airbus) as well as many other assignments around the world as project leader on aircraft recovery/delivery (Airbus). In 2000, he became technical director and then general manager of EBS maintenance (airframe MRO from line to heavy maintenance Boeing and Airbus airplanes) at Marseille (FR) and Chateauroux (FR).
In May 2003, Gregoire Lebigot has founded its first MRO, Europe Aviation, which later during the same year became a subsidiary of his holding company, Vallière Aviation Group. The activities of The Group are localised in Casablanca (Morocco) and Fujairah (UAE) for aircraft maintenance, Chateauroux for aircraft teardown and component storage, Paris-Orly for engineering activities and QSSE (Quality, Safety, Security and Environment), and Luxembourg for trading and component storage as well. The Group is a pioneer in Aircraft disassembly in Europe, being a founding member of AFRA.
Derk-Jan van Heerden
AELS (Aircraft End-of-Life Solutions) - General Manager
The Netherlands
Term 2010-2013
Derk-Jan (DJ) van Heerden’s complete history in the aviation sector has been around end-of-life aircraft. He graduated on this subject in 2005 from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. For this work he was awarded the Best Graduate Award from the Dutch Royal Aeronautical Society. After a short period with KLM Engineering and Maintenance, where he managed the disassembly of a Boeing 747, he started AELS.
Today, Derk-Jan and his team are assisting aircraft owners all over the world with their end-of-life decision. Next to this they execute the disassembly and dismantling of aircraft for high profile clients, such us KLM, Lufthansa, TNT, EADS and Iberia. Part of the solution AELS offers is assisting in all activities required to re-introduce the parts in the aviation sector, such as logistics, marketing and sales. In the short history already 28 aircraft were processed by the sustainable and green solutions of AELS. Recycling of materials is also offered to MRO and (suppliers to) OEM companies
For more information please feel free to contact him or follow him (@DJvanHeerden or LinkedIn) or AELS (@AELSnews or LinkedIn) on social media.
Phone: +31 88 2357 000
Fax: +31 88 2357 001
E: dj.vanheerden@aels.nl
W: www.aels.nl
2233 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 503, Washington, DC 20007
Ph: +1.202.347.6899 - Fax: +1.202.347.6894
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