Executive Team

Chief Financial Officer, SING for Service Mepco

Kevin Diamond joined Seabury Asset Management I LLC in 2017 as Chief Financial Officer. He leads our efforts working with major third party providers to acquire and service payment plans for the vehicle service contract (“VSC”) market. In this role, he has oversight of all functions for the company’s VSC operations.

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Chief Executive Officer, Seabury Global Markets
Senior Advisor, Seabury Asset Management

Rob Fleschler is a capital markets professional with over 35 years of international experience in the Financial Services industry. Foundational knowledge includes cash, futures and options sales & trading, day to day risk management and building global trade execution and financial product distribution businesses. Rob also oversees Seabury’s investments in early stage financial technology companies operating in foreign exchange, precious metals and the evolving cryptocurrency and digital assets space. Having worked for financial institutions in the US and abroad including JP Morgan (NY, London), UBS (NY, Tokyo and Singapore), Lehman Brothers (NY), Goldman Sachs (NY) during the first half of his career,  Rob has been immersed for the past 20 years in financial technology businesses as investor, shareholder, chief executive, board member and thought leader.  Mr. Fleschler holds a B.A. from DePauw University and joined Seabury Capital in 2015.

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President and Chief Executive Officer, Seabury Trade Finance Exchange LLC (Seabury TFX)

Robert is CEO of Seabury Trade Finance Exchange LLC (Seabury TFX) and holds overall responsibility for the company’s strategy and key business initiatives. With more than 20 years of industry experience, he has a unique background in trade, finance, supply chain and technology as a practitioner and as a service provider. Prior to Seabury TFX, he was managing director of TradeCard Inc., now GTNexus, where he built and oversaw the company’s global supplier business to a network of over 20,000 companies. Before TradeCard, Lin held management positions at NewView Technologies, Omnivision Technologies, and Cargill Financial Markets Group. He holds a B.A. in cognitive science from University of California, San Diego and an M.B.A. from University of Southern California. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and events on supply chain and trade finance.

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CEO, SGI Aviation

Paolo Lironi is SGI’s CEO. He joined SGI in 2008, with more than 10 years of experience in commercial aviation.

Mr. Lironi has a strong track record in aircraft leasing, contract negotiation, redeliveries, buyouts, and end-of-life scenario planning. His clients include financial institutions as well as large lessors and commercial airlines.

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Executive Director, Seabury Securities

Ross McKenzie is an Executive Director with Seabury Securities with over 20 years of experience in airline business and financial planning, restructurings, and fleet analysis.  Mr. McKenzie leads Seabury’s business planning team, a group of financial planning specialists responsible for evaluating and developing airline business plans and financial projections.  At Seabury, Mr. McKenzie has developed financial projections and other analyses to support a broad spectrum of projects, including restructurings, due diligence reviews, corporate financing projects and fleet campaigns.  Mr. McKenzie and the business planning team have worked with more than 50 airlines worldwide of all sizes and strategies.

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Executive Director, Seabury Securities

Ken Raff has been engaged on over 20 aircraft acquisition campaigns since joining Seabury in 2001. He takes a lead role for client fleet evaluation, planning and aircraft analysis including performance and specification selection. He manages aircraft procurement and restructuring campaigns with a focus on evaluating and negotiating (or renegotiating) aircraft and engine purchase agreements and associated long term maintenance contracts. Prior to joining Seabury, Mr. Raff spent 15 years at American Airlines in various finance roles including fleet planning and transactions, and three years conducting certification flight tests at Boeing.

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Senior Vice President, Seabury Securities

Neal Wesson joined Seabury in 2007. Neal has worked on wide ranging transactions consisting of in- and out-of-court restructurings, liquidity programs, and arranging and structuring aircraft financings including secured debt, operating, leveraged and tax leases, PDP financing, and fleet sourcing and remarketing. Neal has extensive expertise in analyzing fleet sourcing and financing options to optimize ownership costs and mitigate risk. He works with clients to understand, analyze and select funding structures and negotiating and executing commitments and documentation. Since joining Seabury, Neal executed over 50 transactions totaling over $25 billion and 300 aircraft. Neal holds a B.S. in management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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