Acumen Appoints Sean O’Connor as Managing Director Americas & VP-Commercial
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  • #18 January 2021
  • #Team Acumen

Acumen Appoints Sean O’Connor as Managing Director Americas & VP-Commercial

"Dublin – 18-01-2021:  Acumen Aviation, a Dublin based Aircraft Lease Management Company, is delighted to announce the appointment of Sean O’Connor as Managing Director Americas & VP-Commercial effective from 18th January 2021.  Sean will be based in the Acumen Aviation Americas Inc offices in Miami reporting to Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) Eamonn Cronin. Acumen Aviation CEO Alok Anand said “Acumen has been making exemplary progress in providing Commercial and Lease management services to our customers. Sean’s appointment strengthens our trading and remarketing capabilities, along-with creating a firmer footing in the key American market. I welcome Sean to our fast growing team and wish him all the success in this exciting role.” Sean brings with him a rich and varied background spanning more than 40 years in the aviation sector.  Sean has extensive industry knowledge, marketing, sales, technical expertise of the Americas region starting up FLS Aerospace USA Inc operations and the role of General Manager of SR Technics Americas. Sean held a number senior sales roles within the SR Technics Group. Sean joins Acumen from Universal Asset Management (UAM) where he held a management position. About Acumen Aviation Acumen is an aircraft asset lease manager with a global platform, established in 2009, headquartered in Ireland with offices in India, China and the USA.  Acumen’s management team has over 300 years of cumulative experience with a permanent staff of over 90 people. Acumen offers a full range of services throughout the lifecycle of the aircraft including aircraft sourcing, digital success advisory, pre-purchase inspections (physical and records), project management, lease management, re-marketing, fleet audits, aircraft trading, powerplant management, aircraft valuations and CAMO services. Its customers include aircraft lessors, airlines, banks, private equity and investors. For more information, please contact:  Acumen Press Office: Europe Location: Dublin, Ireland Phone: +353-1-5677106 martin.corcoran@acumen.aero Acumen Press Office: Asia Location: Bangalore, India Phone: : +91 9886886315 shobha.balaji@acumen.aero Disclaimer: Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements; The statements contained herein may include statements of future expectations and other forward-looking statements that are based on management’s current views and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. In addition to statements, which are forward-looking by reason of context, the words ""may"", ""will"", ""should"", ""expects"", ""plans"", ""intends"", ""anticipates"", ""believes"", ""estimates"", ""predicts"", ""potential"", or ""continue"" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. Actual results, performance or events may differ materially from those in such statements due to, without limitation, (i) general economic conditions, including in particular economic conditions in the Acumen Aviation Europe Ltd core business and core markets, (ii) performance of financial markets, including emerging markets, and including market volatility, liquidity and credit events (iii) the frequency and severity of insured loss events, including from natural catastrophes and including the development of loss expenses, (iv) mortality and morbidity levels and trends, (v) persistency levels, (vi) the extent of credit defaults, (vii) interest rate levels, (viii) currency exchange rates including the Euro/U.S. Dollar exchange rate, (ix) changing levels of competition, (x) changes in laws and regulations, including monetary convergence and the European Monetary Union, (xi) changes in the policies of central banks and/or foreign governments, (xii) the impact of acquisitions, including related integration issues, (xiii) reorganization measures, and (xiv) general competitive factors, in each case on a local, regional, national and/or global basis. Many of these factors may be more likely to occur, or more pronounced, as a result of terrorist activities and their consequences. The company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement.    "