Jim Butler to join Gatwick Airport Limited as Chief Financial Officer
Gatwick Airport Limited has announced today that in September 2021 Jim Butler will join its Board and leadership team as Chief Financial Officer. His most recent role was as Senior Vice President – Airport Operations and Cargo for American Airlines where he led airport operations and had oversight of strategic initiatives across American’s global network throughout the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Pacific. Since joining American Airlines in 1996, he worked in several departments and developed an extensive background in sales, marketing, pricing, operations, and finance.
Mr Butler has more than 20 years of experience in the airline industry and previously served as president of American Airlines Cargo for four years. Prior to that role, Jim was managing director of Commercial Planning and Performance, where he was responsible for mainline and regional fleet planning and played a lead role in American’s restructuring and merger with US Airways.
He was a member of the IATA Cargo Committee and the A4A Cargo Executive Council and has served as a member of the board of directors for the UK Board of Airline Representatives and the Joint Steering team at London’s Heathrow Airport. He was also an executive sponsor of Professional Women in Aviation employee resource group and the Board President of the American Airlines Family Fund.
Jim graduated from Cornell University and has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is a licensed private pilot.
Gatwick Airport, Chief Executive Officer, Stewart Wingate said:
“I am looking forward to Jim joining the executive leadership team and GAL Board as CFO. He has extensive experience in the aviation industry which I know will be invaluable to us as we build back the business after the decimating impact the pandemic has had on the industry. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Lorenzo Rebel, our Deputy CFO, for his hard work on leading our financial management team over the last eight months.”
Gatwick is the UK’s second largest airport and flies a range of both short and long-haul point-to-point services. The airport is a vital piece of the UK’s national infrastructure and is also a major driver for both the regional and national economies. In 2019, a new long-term partnership was formed with VINCI Airports which purchased a 50.01% stake in the airport.
The world's leading private airport operator, VINCI Airports operates more than 50 airports in 11 countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Thanks to its expertise as a global integrator, VINCI Airports develops, finances, builds and manages airports by providing its investment capacity and its know-how in optimizing operational performance, modernizing infrastructures and managing their operations and environmental transition. VINCI Airports is the first airport operator to have committed to a global international environmental strategy in 2016, to achieve the goal of net zero emission across its entire network by 2050.
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www.vinci-airports.com
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GIP manages the remaining 49.99% interest in Gatwick and is a leading independent infrastructure fund manager that makes equity and debt investments in high quality infrastructure assets in the energy, transport, water/waste and digital infrastructure sectors. GIP manages US$84 billion for its investors. Its 46 portfolio companies have combined annual revenues of US$61 billion and employ nearly 100,000 employees. For more information on GIP please visit https://www.global-infra.com/
