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President
Chris Babb, Delta Air Lines
Chris has nine years of experience in the airline industry, with four years focused exclusively on the aircraft experience. He is currently the Senior Product Manager, Customer Experience at Delta Air Lines.
Chris served as Chair of the Marketing & Communications Committee from 2009-11 and played a large part in the planning, communication and managing key votes that saw the change of the association’s name, introduction of the new APEX brand, new communication vehicles (APEX Daily SmartBrief) and the complete overhaul of the APEX Web site. He also served as a member of the Awards Committee in 2010 and 2011, contributing to successful award ceremonies. |
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Vice President
Linda Celestino, Oman Air
Linda Celestino is Oman Air’s General Manager – Inflight Services, Commercial Department. She has 25 years of experience in the airline industry across 6 airlines and varied continents. This has given her a unique experience in both the operational and product/service development world.
She is the 2011-2012 Vice President and will Chair the Marketing & Communications committee.
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Secretary
Dominic Green, Spafax
Dominic has 15 years of experience in the airline passenger experience business - with a focus on IFE - in a variety of content marketing, project management and client service roles. As Senior Director of Client Services at Spafax he plays a key role in the development and execution of customized, branded content solutions for a wide range of clients in The Americas, Europe and Asia.
Dominic previously served on the Education Committee and the Awards Task Force. He is continuing his role as Chair of the Governance and Events & EXPO. Since 2009, he has served as Secretary on the WAEA/APEX board.
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Treasurer
Linda Palmer, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Non-Theatrical
Linda Palmer has served 12 terms on the APEX Board of Directors, most of which as APEX Treasurer. She was re-elected in 2006 as Treasurer for a two year term. Linda has played a pivotal role in the financial health of the organization and has overseen the launch, growth, and content of key APEX publications and awareness campaigns. Linda is the Senior Vice President of Non-Theatrical Sales at Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Linda is a recipient of the APEX’s highest honor: the Lifetime Achievement Award. |
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Immediate Past President
Patrick Brannelly, Emirates
Patrick Brannelly joined Emirates in 1992 to manage their inflight entertainment product (among other things) and since then has been responsible for developing the IFE product and systems. This has included the introduction of five generations of IFE hardware systems. He holds the title Vice President: Corporate Communications Product, Publishing, Digital & Events.
Patrick has previously served as APEX Vice President in 1998 and President in 1999 and 2009-2011. He chaired a number of committees including the Executive and Nominating Committees. He drove a number of projects APEX has seen including the association's name change, broadened scope, re-engineered communication vehicles and the launch of the Passenger Choice Awards.
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DIRECTORS
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Kevin Bremer, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Kevin Bremer currently holds the position of Manager, Cabin Systems Technical Center for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. His previous responsibilities at Boeing Commercial Airplanes include the positions of IFE Feature Strategy Airplanes, IFE Technology Manager, IFE Installation Manager and Customer Engineer (IFE Option Manager).
Kevin has been actively involved in APEX since 2000 including Co-Chairing the Education Committee and serving as Chair of the Avion Task Force. Kevin was re-elected to the Board and will serve a two-year term. He will continue to Chair the Education Committee, which has organized a number of successful events over the year.
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Neil James, Panasonic Avionics Corporation
Neil James is the Executive Director, Corporate Sales & Product Management at Panasonic Avionics Corporation. He has 15 years of experience in the IFE industry and has worked for MBM Technology, Sony Trans Com and Rockwell Collins prior to joining Panasonic. His career has encompassed several disciplines including Engineering, Project Management, Customer & OEM Support, OnBoard Services, Product Marketing, Content Licensing (Applications, Software, Audio, Video, Creative), Digital Content Management, Software Development, Public Relations, Tradeshows & Events and Airline Sales.
Neil is involved with APEX special projects and reporting. He is serving his second of a two-year term.
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Leigh Mantle, Inflight Productions, Ltd. UK
Leigh has been with Inflight Productions since 1996 and currently serves as their Technical Director. Before that, he served as Facility Manager for the company for five years, then as Managing Director of IFP Studios for three years.
Leigh served as the Technology Committee Board liaison and is still an active member of the committee. He will again serve as the TV Market Task Force, a group that successfully organized the 2011 TVMC
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Luay Qunash, Royal Jordanian Airline
Luay Qunash is the director, inflight for Royal Jordanian Airline. He has a number of years’ experience in the aviation industry. Prior to this role, he was the manager, inflight entertainment, held various managerial positions at inflight services departments and was a steward for 8 years.
He will serve as Co-Chair of the Membership Committee.
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Alfy Veretto, Virgin America
Alfy Veretto is Virgin America’s Manager of IFE and Partnerships where he maintains the IFE department for Virgin America. He previously developed the IFE department for Frontier Airlines from 2002 - 2008. Before his years in the airline industry, he was the Program Director for KECY-TV, dealing with TV syndication and movie studio relationships.
Afly will Co-Chair the Membership Committee.
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Ian Walberg, Airborne Interactive Ltd.
Ian Walberg is the CEO of Airborne Interactive Ltd. and an active APEX member. In addition to his time at his current company, he has previously worked for in the IFE industry for Inflight Productions, Virgin Atlantic and GEC Marconi.
He has been an active member of the Technology Committee leadership team and currently serves as the Chair.
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