Thomas Bommer

Current

• Manager Marketing at MAXIMUS AIR CARGO

Past

• Regional Director Middle East at Air Charter Service FZCo
• Ground Operations Manager at TAG Aviation SA
• Director Sales & Marketing at BEXAIR (Bahrain Executive Air Services)

• Chief Operating Officer at Todaily
• Senior Career Advisor at Career Partners
• General Manager at Emarat Link
• District Manager at Swissair
• various positions at SWISSAIR, SAGA REISEN, BALAIR, WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, INTL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC)

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Education

• Graduate School of Business, University of Strathclyde
• IFCAM, Lausanne
• Institute for International Research, Dubai

• Swissair Management Development
• Hoehere Kaufmaennische Gesamtschule HKG
• Swissair Ground Services
• Cantonal Administration and Transportation College
• Primarschule Pestalozzi Bern

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Industry

Airlines/Aviation

Thomas Bommer’s Summary

Profile
Airline and Aviation manager, 33 years industry experience, with profound and diverse international airline, executive aviation and ad-hoc charter experience.

Successful leader of start-ups and projects in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Proven track of defining strategy and managing business development, re-engineering organisations and processes.

Natural, goal driven project team leader, ensuring the delivery of creative solutions and outstanding commercial results in challenging markets.

Thomas Bommer’s Specialties:

- Strathclyde MBA (thesis remaining)
- Project management (IPMA, Prince2, PMBOK)
- Strategy development
- Start-up conceptualization & implementation
- Sales and marketing audits
- Key customer relationship management
- New product launch (services)

Thomas Bommer’s Experience

• Manager Marketing

  MAXIMUS AIR CARGO

  (Privately Held; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  Management Consultant

• Regional Director Middle East

  Air Charter Service FZCo

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  November 2006 — May 2007 (7 months)

  Overall management of brokerage start-up, belonging to the ACS group of companies. Based in Dubai; specializing in procuring passenger and cargo aircraft to satisfy special transport needs of the Middle East clientele .

• Ground Operations Manager

  TAG Aviation SA

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  August 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Nominated Post-holder for this function, encompassing operational responsibility for all flights dispatched by TAG Aviation with regards to flight preparation and ground operations, ensuring highest standards of operational quality, documentation and service levels to crews and customers of 22 aircraft, 14 staff.

• Director Sales & Marketing

  BEXAIR (Bahrain Executive Air Services)

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  January 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 7 months)

  Manage Business Development, Sales & Marketing function for Bahrain based Executive Air Services Company, operating a fleet of 4 business jets, and besides air charter, providing purchase consultancy, aircraft evaluation, completion supervision and aircraft management. Yearly turnover USD 16 million.

• Chief Operating Officer

  Todaily

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Printing industry)

  April 2003 — December 2003 (9 months)

  Managing start-up, day to day operations and regional business development for Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar & UAE to capitalize on same day international newspaper availability. 180+ titles, 2200 copies daily, 15 staff.

• Senior Career Advisor

  Career Partners

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Human Resources industry)

  October 2002 — April 2003 (7 months)

  Affiliated to the Bernard Haldane Associates network. Managing career planning of double-digit number of clients, guiding and advising them through the 4 month fee based programme.

• General Manager

  Emarat Link

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  March 2002 — October 2002 (8 months)

  Overall management of regional start-up, amphibious airline; 35 staff. Defining marketing strategy, developing and implementing business & marketing plans to launch a commuter service between Abu Dhabi Corniche and Dubai Creek; operated 2 Dubai based Cessna Caravan (regional charters, daily sightseeing flights) Successfully introduced double daily Dubai – Fujairah – Dubai scheduled service in June 2002; project stalled in October 2002 due to ongoing legal suit against major investor.

• District Manager

  Swissair

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  November 1992 — February 2002 (9 years 4 months)

  GM Tunisia (JUL 2000 – FEB 2002):
  Leading a team of 17 local staff; 9 weekly flights (AVRO + A-320), turnover 2000: CHF 10.5 m; Launched 3 x weekly Crossair services between Tunis & Geneva. Representation Tunisia was closed 28 February 2002 (bankruptcy).
  
  GM Taiwan (JUL 1996 - JUN 2000):
  In charge of sales, marketing, administration and operation for three weekly MD-11 flights, leading a team of 23 local GSA staff; increased sales from CHF 12 m (1996) to over CHF 21 m (2000). Implemented bilingual marketing campaign, increased seatloadfactor on Bangkok–Taipei route by more than 25 percentage points to over 80%.
  
  GM Cameroon (NOV 1992 – JUN 1996): Combined function District Manager & Manager Station Douala; in charge of sales, operations and marketing for two weekly MD-11 flights, leading a team of 15 staff out of Douala & Yaoundé; increased cargo revenues by 120%, grew passenger sales volume by 48%, contracted top yield generating oil & gas sector companies (Pecten, Elf, etc.)

• various positions

  SWISSAIR, SAGA REISEN, BALAIR, WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, INTL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  April 1976 — October 1992 (16 years 7 months)

  Business analyst, SWISSAIR Zurich, Switzerland (1992)
  9 months project work on the performance enhancement programme MO>E
  
  Manager Station and Sales Services, SWISSAIR Tehran, Iran (1988 – 1991)
  
  Relief station manager (various medium & short term missions) SWISSAIR (1987 – 1988)
  
  Operations Manager, World Economic Forum (WEF), Geneva, Switzerland (1987)
  
  Duty Manager, BALAIR, Switzerland (1983 – 1985)
  Deputy Station Manager Zurich (1985-1987)
  
  Flight-Coordinator, International Committee of the Red Cross, Huambo, Angola (1985)
  
  Travel consultant, SAGA REISEN S.A., Biglen/Berne, Switzerland (1981 – 1983)
  
  Airline ground staff, SWISSAIR Geneva, Switzerland (1976 - 1981)

Thomas Bommer’s Education

• Graduate School of Business, University of Strathclyde

  MBA , Management, Strategy & the International Environment , 2009

• IFCAM, Lausanne

  Project Manager IPMA (C level) , Project Management , 2009

  Activities and Societies:

  Member SMP (Societe Suisse de Management de Projets)

• Institute for International Research, Dubai

  Strategic Marketing Planning 2003 — 2003

• Swissair Management Development

  Certificate , Marketing Management Candidates Training (MMCT) , 2000 — 2001

• Hoehere Kaufmaennische Gesamtschule HKG

  Federal Diploma , Business Administration , 1983 — 1986

• Swissair Ground Services

  Diploma , Airline Ground Staff Apprenticeship , 1976 — 1978

• Cantonal Administration and Transportation College

  Diploma , Transportation Industry Administration , 1974 — 1976

• Primarschule Pestalozzi Bern

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