Maritime Team

John E. Luth

Chairman, President and CEO

John Luth is the founding partner and chief executive of the Seabury Group. Mr. Luth leads major aviation and aerospace advisory assignments, and has advised on over $40 billion of new aircraft orders and in excess of $30 billion of capital transactions, including approximately $4 billion of new equity issuance.

Most recently, Mr. Luth led an out-of-court restructuring for Frontier Airlines (2011), assisted a major Middle East carrier with respect to NewGen widebody orders (2011), and completed a highly successful NewGen widebody aircraft campaign for Cathay Pacific Airways (in 2010), the later resulting in Cathay ordering 30 firm A350s and six firm 777s. Mr. Luth led similar efforts for Air Canada leading to an order of 60 firm and option 787s and 18/18 firm/option 777s and assisted US Airways on renegotiating billions of new aircraft orders (2010).

Gert-Jan Jansen

Executive Director

Mr. Jansen has been with Seabury Aviation & Aerospace since January 2007, strengthening the European office and the Cargo Advisory unit in particular. He has 14 years of experience in the air cargo and express industry and demonstrated his ability to support clients in achieving change & performance boosts in dozens of projects across the globe. Since joining Seabury, Mr. Jansen has worked on projects which included strategy development for a North American major cargo airline, due diligence for a number of investors etc.

Marco Bloemen

Senior Vice President

Mr. Bloemen has joined Seabury in January 2007 with more than 12 years experience in air cargo consulting and 5 years in air cargo management functions. Mr. Bloemen has conducted assignments with leading air cargo carriers, integrators, airports and related companies all around the world. Assignments have ranged from feasibility studies, business planning, sales training, due diligence, pricing workshops, revenue management, product development, fleet selection etc.

Mathijs Slangen

Senior Analyst

Mr. Mathijs Slangen joined Seabury Group in 2009 as a Senior Analyst where he is involved in the development of the maritime branch of the Cargo Advisory Group. In his role he contributed to the development of the global ocean trade database as well as the ocean forecast models.