Corporate Advisory Team
Michael B. Cox
Vice Chairman, Seabury Group
Mike Cox joined the Seabury Group as a partner in April 1998. He has over 25 years of airline and aviation-related experience. At Seabury, Mr. Cox has advised numerous airline clients on a variety of projects, including airline treasury, corporate finance, and airline restructuring. Recent engagements have included leading the Seabury team in successfully restructuring the aircraft debt/lease restructuring efforts for the successful reorganization efforts at US Airways, Air Canada and Northwest Airlines. Mr. Cox led the successful out-of-court restructuring of South African Airways resulting in a profitable fiscal year ending March 31, 2008 after losing over 1 billion ZAR the year before. Mr. Cox also advised Frontier Airlines in its Chapter 11 reorganization efforts.
James F. Bohlman
Managing Director, Global Head of Corporate Advisory, Aviation Investment Banking & Restructuring, Co-Head of Americas Consulting
Jim Bohlman joined Seabury in 2011 as Managing Director. He is responsible for the firm’s Corporate Advisory division, Aviation Investment Banking & Restructuring practice and Consulting activities in the Americas. He brings over 20 years of management consulting and investment banking experience in a variety of industries, with a focus on aviation, aerospace and defense. He has restructured transactions exceeding US$7billion in aviation and A&D-related matters and has led numerous Aviation-related capital raise mandates. Additionally, he has led virtually every aspect of turnaround and performance improvement efforts for clients, and has advised sell-side and buy-side M&A clients on deal structuring, target assessment and post-acquisition matters for significant transactions in the aviation, aircraft leasing and A&D sectors.
Ginger Hughes
Executive Director & Co-Head Airline Corporate Advisory
Ginger Hughes has over 16 years of global airline experience covering a wide range of matters including several successful airline restructurings, crisis cash management, due diligence, strategic sourcing negotiations, cost reduction programs and mergers & acquisitions advisory. She has a senior role in liquidity management, vendor negotiation and other restructuring issues.
Michael D. Mason
Executive Director & Co-Head Airline Corporate Advisory
Michael Mason joined the Seabury Group LLC as a vice president in May 2000. He has more than 15 years of airline and aviation-related experience. At Seabury, Mr. Mason has advised numerous airline clients on a variety of projects, including treasury, cash management, working capital management, cash forecasting and balance sheet restructuring. Mr. Mason has served in various interim financial executive roles in support of the client's restructuring.
Kenneth A. Raff
Executive Director
Kenneth Raff joined the Seabury Group in May 2001. He has a senior role for client fleet evaluation, planning and aircraft analysis, performance and selection. He also has a senior role in managing new aircraft acquisition campaigns, negotiating fleet-wide power plant and component management agreements, aircraft and engine financing transactions.
A. Ross McKenzie
Executive Director
Ross McKenzie rejoined the Seabury Group in July 2006, having previously worked at Seabury an analyst and associate at the start of his career. Mr. McKenzie has nine years of experience in airline business and financial planning, aircraft acquisition analysis, and financial restructurings. At Seabury, Mr. McKenzie has assisted with or led the financial analysis for a variety of assignments, including corporate advisory projects, financial restructurings, business plan development and fleet analysis.
Alan Sbarra
Senior Vice President
Alan Sbarra joined the Seabury Group in January 2008. He has more than 15 years of aviation and aviation-related experience in the areas of strategy development, business and financial planning, economic analysis, and cost analysis. Mr. Sbarra has developed cost-analysis tools and methodologies that allow airlines to benchmark their cost competiveness and productivity to identify areas for improvement.
Brian F. Davis
Senior Advisor
Brian Davis is an associate partner of the Seabury Group with responsibility for assisting Seabury’s aviation and aerospace clients with project assignments relating to re-fleeting analyses for passenger and air freight carriers, negotiating new aircraft orders and related financing support, acquisitions of used aircraft fleets, cargo conversion programs, fleet dispositions, and negotiations with powerplant OEMs and overhaul facilities.
Dr. Christopher J. Smith
Senior Advisor
Dr. Christopher Smith joined Seabury Group in July 2008 and has more than 35 years of experience in the air transport industry. He heads the firm’s Corporate Advisory office in London, which serves the financial community by providing due diligence and support for transactions in the airline, airport, and aviation-related business sectors, including ground handling. He also is responsible for Seabury’s airports advisory practice.
George Aschenbach
Senior Advisor
George Aschenbach joined the Seabury Group in 2002 with responsibility for airline re-engineering. Mr. Aschenbach has more than 30 years of experience in the airline and global distribution system (GDS) industries, having held senior financial positions with Continental Airlines, US Airways and Northwest Airlines. He also served as vice president – treasury, strategy support and new ventures for Galileo International and as an independent consultant. He has extensive experience as an advisor to clients on merger and acquisition analysis, business valuation analysis, financing and other treasury-related matters.
