CIT Group announced yesterday a number of employee promotions as follows:
Robert Lamoureux
Senior Vice President, Head of Marketing, Asia Pacific
Lamoureux will provide senior representation in our growing Singapore office and be responsible for oversight of the marketing activities within Asia, the Pacific and the Indian sub-continent. Prior to joining CIT in 2009, he worked for a variety of airlines such as Emirates Airlines, Cathay Pacific Airways and Air Canada.
Robert Meade
Director, Marketing Strategy and Asset Sales
In this newly created role, Meade will focus on marketing strategy, portfolio management and oversight of CIT’s off-lease asset sales. He joined CIT in 2005 and has held a number of positions within Commercial Air’s Marketing team. Most recently, he has been responsible for customer relationships and leases to airlines in Eastern Europe and the U.S., as well as asset sales.
Martyn Lewis
Director, Marketing EMEA
Reporting to Gwyn Scourfield, Senior Vice President and Head of Marketing for The Americas and EMEA, Lewis will continue to oversee customer activities within the EMEA region. Additionally, he will develop new business and aircraft financing activities and remarket aircraft to airlines within Europe. Prior to joining CIT in 2001, Lewis served as Aircraft Trading Manager at British Airways.
Mark Ebanks
Director, Marketing the Americas
Reporting to Gwyn Scourfield, Senior Vice President and Head of Marketing for The Americas and EMEA, Ebanks will continue to oversee customer activities within the Americas and the Caribbean. Additionally, he will develop new business and aircraft financing activities and remarket aircraft in the U.S., Brazil and the Caribbean. He joined CIT from United Airlines in 1998 as Assistant Vice President of Marketing.
Acting Transportation Security Administration (TSA) head Melvin Carraway reassigned
US Department of Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson has “reassigned” acting Transportation Security Administration head Melvin Carraway “effective immediately” following a DHS inspector general’s report that revealed weaknesses at US airports’ passenger screening checkpoints. The DHS inspector general’s report, which details “red team” undercover investigators’ efforts to bring banned items through passenger checkpoints, is classified and Johnson is not discussing the specific results. But ABC News reported that red team investigators were able to get “mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints in 95% of trials,” and in a statement Johnson cited “vulnerabilities” and “deficiencies” identified by the inspector general. TSA leadership has been instructed to immediately revise its standard operating procedures for screening” and “immediately brief the results of [the inspector general’s] testing to the federal security directors at every airport across the United States.”