Seabury Strengthens Consulting Practice

NEW YORK, October 16, 2006 – Seabury today announced that its consulting practice, which focuses primarily on airline strategy development and major operational turnarounds, has expanded its capacity and capability with the addition of three professionals.

• Frank Martin joined the firm as a Senior Advisor with responsibility for expanding Seabury’s European presence.He is theformer Vice President of Marketing for SR Technics andbrings significant industry expertise, including more than 10 years of experience with, among others, Airbus Industrie, Lufthansa Technik AG and most recently SR Technics. He held several senior roles at SR Technics, including General Manager Business Development & Alliances and Sales Director Solutions. Mr. Martin has a Masters in Economics from the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Germany.

• Sadiq Gillani joined the firm as a Senior Associate, and has both aviation and general consulting experience. Mr. Gillani spent three years with Bain & Company, primarily in London and South Africa , where he worked in the mining, business service and telecommunications industries on projects including customer loyalty, organizational and process redesign. He also worked with the management team of Eos Airlines to launch the new business-class-only transatlantic airline, and held the position of (Acting) Vice President of Strategy and Network Planning at Skybus Airlines, a newly launched low-cost carrier. Mr. Gillani completed his Harvard MBA in 2006.

• Stephen Strange joined the firm as an Associate, with more than six years of industry expertise. Prior to completing his Harvard MBA in 2006, Mr. Strange was employed by The Boeing Company as a Business Planning Analyst and a Procurement Financial Analyst. As a senior planning analyst, Mr. Strange worked closely with senior management at Boeing, focused on financial and strategic analysis and forecasting.

“We are all very excited that these professionals have decided to join our expanding group of aviation consultants. Our clients operate in an incredibly competitive and, at times, completely unpredictable industry. We look forward to integrating these new recruits into our teams around the world as they work with different carriers to overcome the challenges of business transformation.” said Joseph Schottland, Managing Director and head of Seabury’s consulting practice.

Founded in 1995, Seabury is the leading independent, transportation-focused investment banking and advisory firm serving aviation and other clients in three principal areas: investment banking, restructuring and consulting.

Seabury now serves over 100 clients in the United States , Europe and Australasia by providing investment banking and structured finance advice, corporate transformation services, operational and network/alliance management consulting services, and software planning and analytical tools to transportation, logistics, and freight businesses.

In recent years, Seabury has become known as the most influential advisor in the restructuring of the North American airline industry by virtue of its advisory assignments for US Airways, including the merger with America West; its restructuring and recapitalization of Air Canada ; and its current restructuring assignment with Northwest Airlines.

Its management consulting division works with aviation-industry clients on their most critical strategic and operational issues. Their typical assignments range from broad-based and targeted cost-reduction initiatives, fleet, network and strategy development to operational turnarounds and investor due diligence. Their client list extends from the most distressed to the most successful airlines as well as different suppliers to the aviation industry from around the globe.

From an investor perspective, Seabury has emerged as the leading consultant and advisor to long-term debt and equity providers focused on the transportation sector, including, among others, the Blackstone Group, Cerberus Capital Management, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Oaktree Capital and Texas Pacific Group.

Contact: Karen C. Cook
Director of Communications
kcook@seaburygroup.com
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