May 16, 2005
Aerospace Group

AEROSPACE GROUP LLC MANAGEMENT TEAM ONE OF THE MOST EXPERIENCED IN BUSINESS AVIATION

Geneva, May 16 - Aerospace Group LLC may be making is debut here at EBACE 2005, buts its management team has decades worth of experience buying, selling, designing, completing, and maintaining high-end business aircraft.

Foremost are the two men at the top of the organization: Ron Zilberbrand, CEO of The Zilberbrand Group, and co-founder and former President of Jet Support Services Inc. (JSSI) International; and Kevin Hoffman, President and CEO of Montreal-based Aerospace Concepts LLC. Zilberbrand and Hoffman serve as co-chairmen of Aerospace Group.

Aerospace Group LLC specializes in buying and selling wide-cabin,long-range and ultra-long range business aircraft, and is the only sales and acquisitions firm in the world to include completion management services in the price of each new aircraft. The company is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Montreal, Texas and California.

Here are the details on Aerospace Group’s management team:

Ronald Zilberbrand
Co-Chairman & President

Ron Zilberbrand began his aviation career in 1989 as a founder of JSSI (Jet Support Services, Inc.). JSSI specialized in providing Hourly Cost Maintenance Programs  to general aviation operators. His vision, determination and perseverance along with sales and marketing skills allowed JSSI to grow and compete against major providers such as Honeywell’s “MSP”, General Electric “MCPH”, Pratt & Whitney “ESP” and Rolls Royce “Power by the Hour” Program. During the last 16 years, Ron grew JSSI from inception to over 1,800 customers flying out of 31 countries.

Through his network of representatives, service centers, management companies and flight departments in 31 countries, Ron established a level of customer service admired throughout the Aviation industry. He co-founded The Zilberbrand Group, LLC in 2004 and brings this same level of “customer first” service to Aerospace Group LLC.

Kevin Hoffman
Co-Chairman & CEO

Kevin Hoffman joined Gulfstream Aerospace’s Engineering Flight Test Department in 1985, where he honed his skills in test and certification requirements as well as preparing test plans and procedures. Following the certification of the Gulfstream IV, he joined the Product Development group where he had constant exposure to CAD/CAM while doing conceptual aircraft design, aerodynamic analyses and computational fluid design analysis on 3D models.

In 1990 he moved to Canadair Aerospace where he was in charge of the Conceptual Aircraft Design and Aircraft Design Tool Development for the Advanced Design Group at Canadair. Hoffman also coordinated and directed the conceptual and Preliminary Design phases of the Next Model Executive Jet (Global Express). This included configuration design, networking, program planning, assigning responsibilities, maintaining program schedules and budgets, and coordinating and leading all teams through the Conceptual and Preliminary design phases.

In 1994, he joined the Sales and Marketing Group as the Director of Global Express Technical Sales. This entailed providing technical presentations to customers during discussions of the Global Express. In 1997, he transitioned to Product Management as the Global Express Product Director, eventually founding Aerospace Concepts in the late 1990s.

Jason Zilberbrand
Vice President, Operations

Jason Zilberbrand began his career in aviation at the age of 21, and worked for JSSI for the next nine years as Regional Sales Manager covering the Midwest and North Central United States. During this time he became the number-one sales agent for his territory.

Zilberbrand is known for his exceptional customer service, and his ability to exceed the needs of his customers. He has worked extensively with the Fortune 100 group of clients and maintained the accounts of some of the largest corporate flight departments in the U.S.

He co-founded The Zilberbrand Group, LLC in 2004 and serves as its President.

John Brodeur
Vice President, Sales & Marketing

A multi-engined rated pilot  who also holds an A&P mechanics certificate, John Brodeur

began his aviation career in Florida with “Wordair”, working as a mechanic and flying cargo throughout the Caribbean. In 1988, he returned to Canada to work with Boeing-deHavilland Aircraft in Toronto, Ontario, within the Quality Procurement Assurance department.

In 1990, he transferred to the corporate headquarters of Bombardier Aerospace in Montreal, Quebec. Responsibilities included auditing vendors’ quality assurance programs and compliance to Bombardier’s manufacturing specifications. In 1994, he created and ran a field service engineering office in Mexico for all Latin American operators of Challenger aircraft.

In 1999, John became Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for Servicios Aereos Estrella in Mexico. He was responsible for new business development, and marketing of the Toluca International Airport and the FBO.

In October of 2004 John returned to Canada and joined Aerospace Concepts, where he serves as Vice President of Marketing and Sales for the company, with responsibility for analyzing new business opportunities.

John Lawson
Senior Advisor

John Lawson recently retired from Bombardier Aerospace where he served in a variety of senior roles, most recently as President of Bombardier Business Aircraft Sales. He was commissioned a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1961, and retired in 1975 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

In 1980, Lawson was named director of Government Requirements and later director of Project Management for the original Challenger 600. After Bombardier acquired Canadair, he became Vice President of Customer Support, then Vice President of Marketing and International Sales.

In 1995, he was appointed President of Canadair Business Aircraft and played a significant role in the development of the Global Express Program. This was followed by an appointment as President of Bombardier Business Aircraft Sales with responsibility for worldwide sales of all Learjet, Canadair Challenger and Global Express and corporate variants of the Canadair Regional Jet.