Smiths Industries: Mawer, Marketing Director
Bill Mawer has joined Smiths Industries as marketing director for the company’s Aerospace Group. Based at Smiths Industries’ headquarters in Northwest London, he is responsible for group marketing efforts in the United States and United Kingdom, and will be involved in business planning and new business development activities across all divisions within the group. Mawer joins Smiths Industries from BAe Systems, where he was marketing director. For more information, visit the Website at www.smithsind-aerospace.com.
Keystone Helicopter: McLain, Tech Services Manager
Jeff McLain has joined Keystone Helicopter Corp. as the manager for field technical services/business development. McLain, a licensed A&P with an IA, is responsible for on-site maintenance services in the Northeast corridor. Visit the Website at www.keystonehelicopter.com for more information.
Sextant In-Flight Systems: Krans, Marketing Director
Lori Krans has been appointed director of marketing-plans and proposals for Sextant In-Flight Systems, a unit of Thomson-CSF. She has spent the last 18 years at Sony Corp. of America, where she most recently served as senior marketing manager for Sony Trans Com Inc. For further information, see www.sextant-ifs.com.
QuickTurn: Dewhirst, Manager
Tim Dewhirst has been promoted to manager of QuickTurn, a unit of SimuFlite Training International. Dewhirst, a fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft pilot with type ratings for Gulfstream II and III, Cessna CE-500 and Sikorsky S-76, was previously a Gulfstream instructor pilot for SimuFlite. For more information, see www.quickt.com.
Society of Women Engineers: Award Recipients
The Society of Woman Engineer’s (SWE) presented its highest-honor Achievement Award to Suzanne Jenniches, vice president of Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Communications Systems business, for her contribution to the engineering field. Dawne E. LeKang, a senior software engineer for Logicon Inc.’s Inter-National Research Institute subsidiary was honored by SWE with the Distinguished New Engineer award.Visit www.northgrum.com, www.logicon.com or www.swe.org.
Eurocontrol: Aguado, Director General
Eurocontrol has appointed Victor Aguado to replace Yves Lambert as its director general. Lambert will retire at the end of this year, and Aguado will assume his new duties on Jan. 1, 2001. For more information, see www.eurocontrol.be.