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Wayne Exton
CEO

Wayne Exton

Chief Executive Officer

Wayne Exton serves as the President & CEO for Unitech Aerospace. He is responsible for maximizing the global enterprise's performance through driving growth, generating revenues, capturing market share, improving profitability and enhancing shareholder value.

Joining the company in 2015, Exton brings over 25 years of executive leadership, strategy development, operations management and mergers and acquisition experience. As the former Group Vice President and Company Officer of B/E Aerospace's Business Jet Group, Exton successfully grew revenues from $147M in 2005 to $750M in 2015. The company grew from 4 operating businesses employing 630 people to 15 operating businesses and over 4,000 employees during the same time period. Additionally, Exton developed offshore manufacturing and engineering facilities in Mexico and India that were key components to cost reduction strategies. Prior to this, he served as President & CEO of Heath Tecna, a Bellingham, Washington, private equity owned business providing interior components and engineering services for the commercial aircraft interiors market. During his tenure from 2002-2005, the business evolved from a single site, $27M enterprise employing 163 people to a $108M highly profitable business with over 700 employees and 3 manufacturing locations in the USA, UK and Australia. Exton has also held senior leadership positions with Britax Automotive Components in Detroit, MI and Magneti Marelli in Italy.

Mr. Exton resides in Miami, Florida, and since 2006 has served on the boards of both the South Florida Manufacturers Association and the General Aviation Manufactures Association (GAMA). He holds a degree in Physics and is both a UK and US citizen.

Anthony Dombrowik
CFO

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Anthony Dombrowik

Chief Financial Officer

Anthony Dombrowik serves as the Chief Financial Officer for Unitech Aerospace. His responsibilities include financial, tax, treasury, insurance and administrative support and oversight related to the operation and reporting of Unitech Aerospace.

Mr. Dombrowik comes to Unitech with extensive finanical and leadership experience primarily in the hospitality and travel industries. Prior to joining AGC in 2015, Mr. Dombrowik served as the interim CEO and CFO for the Ambassadors Group. He also served as CFO and other senior financial positions for Red Lion Hotels.

Mr. Dombrowik serves as an advisor to Trinity Catholic School and is a member of the Gonzaga Prep Finance Committee. Mr. Dombrowik earned a Bachelors degree in Accounting from Gonzaga University and is a certified public accountant.

Phil Louch
Finance Director, UK

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Phil Louch

Finance Director, UK

As Finance Director, Phil Louch manages and oversees the financial management of the operations in the U.K.

Phil has over 20 years of multinational financial management experience across government, advertising, chemical and pharmaceutical sectors.

Prior to Unitech Aerospace, Phil was the group financial controller at Shasun Pharma Solutions Ltd.

Joyce Hagues
VP/General Manager, Unitech Composites

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Joyce Hagues

VP/ General Manager, Unitech Composites

Joyce Hagues serves as the Vice President/ General Manager of Unitech Composites. In this role, she has full P&L responsibility and strives to increase customer satisfaction through improved quality and delivery performance.

Hagues joined Unitech in 2017 with 30 years of experience in global supply chain and international management in the aerospace, medical device and electronics industries. Prior to joining Unitech, Hagues served as Vice President of Materials for the Seat Shells division of Zodiac Aerospace and Vice President of Supply Chain for B/E Aerospace. Hagues has a proven background in international business, enterprise-wide business planning, new product launch and contract negotiation.

Ms. Hagues earned a BSBA from the University of Phoenix and holds a MBA with a focus in Global Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Peter Eckersall
VP/Managing Director, Tods Defence

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Peter Eckersall

VP/Managing Director, Tods Defence

Peter Eckersall is General Manager at Tods Defence. His responsibilities include the creation and deployment of strategy, increasing customer satisfaction through improved quality and delivery performance and developing design and technical capability.

Eckersall has over 30 years of Aerospace experience and joined AGC in 2000. He previously held the positions of Engineering Director, New Product Director and Programme Director before taking up the position of General Manager in November 2014.

Eckersall’s background includes roles at AgustaWestland where he worked as part of the EH101 Helicopter development design team, International Automotive Design Ltd developing vehicle body designs for manufacture and BAE Systems Military Aircraft where he held a design quality signatory for the Harrier 2+ programme.Eckersall studied mechanical engineering at Yeovil Collage and Composite Materials at the University of Surrey.

Jeff Schlueter
VP/General Manager, North Coast Composites, Tool & Mold

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Jeff Schlueter

VP/General Manager, North Coast Composites, Tool & Mold

Jeff Schlueter serves as the Vice President/ General Manager of North Coast Composites, Tool & Mold. Joining the company in 2018, Schlueter has over 25 years of experience from ownership in an entrepreneurial start-up to working for multi-billion dollar corporations such as BAE Systems and B/E Aerospace. He has served in leadership positions in engineering, operations, programs and also served as a Vice President and General Manager during his corporate career. Through all of these experiences, Jeff has developed a broad array of people skills and is passionate about helping others.

Andrew Edgley
Business Development Director, Tods Defence

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Andrew Edgley

Simon Shackelton
Business Development Director, Unitech Composites

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