About
About Gerry Aubrey
Gerry Aubrey has more than 30 years of experience, leasing, trading, and managing commercial aircraft around the world. He combines commercial and technical expertise to offer expert consulting services including reviewing and managing leases, assets, aircraft evaluations, as well as transactions. He provides clients with professional insights for board engagement, additional management capacity and as an expert witness.
Gerry was Chief Operating Officer at WNG Capital, leading the company’s technical asset management function for more than 50 older narrowbodies. He was responsible for a broad scope of business, including aircraft transitions, technical cash flow models, determination of residual value profiles, aircraft records and acquisition technical evaluations.
Prior to WNG, Gerry held various senior roles at Intrepid Aviation as the company evolved from a boutique freighter conversion-oriented trader into a passenger lessor with a $3 billion portfolio of young, wide body aircraft. Responsibilities included new aircraft purchasing, sales, contracts, acquisitions and marketing. His contributions ranged from selling legacy A300s for part-out to negotiating a speculative purchase of new 777-300ERs .
Gerry’s first leasing company was Pegasus Aviation, where he created and then led the Commercial Operations department, a lease administration and asset management function for more than 200 aircraft. He played key roles in the acquisition of a $1.5 billion portfolio of new and used aircraft, including negotiating leases, ensuring transitioning aircraft satisfied contractual delivery and re-delivery conditions, and managing contracts for Airbus and Boeing orders. Other responsibilities included freighter conversion and MRO dispute resolution.
Gerry’s commercial aviation experience began at United Airlines, with initial positions in performance engineering and new aircraft engineering, followed by maintenance accounting. His last positions were in aircraft sales, initially as the surplus 737 salesman, and then as head of the aircraft and engine sales department.
His career started with Rockwell International, where he updated Space Shuttle documentation and evaluated the flight stability and handling qualities of the B-1B bomber.
Gerry has attended a Harvard Law executive education master class on advanced strategies for experienced negotiators. He has a master’s degree in International Business and Finance from San Francisco State University, and in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado. He also bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California.
He lives in Madison, Connecticut, outside of New York City.
