Andrew is Founder and Director of Bonne Avia Limited. He has spent all his career in the aerospace industry.

He started with a mechanical engineering apprenticeship with British Hovercraft Corporation (BHC). During the 10 years he was employed by BHC (now GKN Aerospace), he studied for a number of formal qualifications, ranging from TEC Mechanical Engineering through to a Fellowship with the Institute of Management. (IM).
In 1987 he moved to Pilatus Britten-Norman Ltd (PB-N), manufacturers of the Islander aircraft as Materials Manager. He had responsibility for procurement, import/export, materials planning, warehousing and overseas production. During his time at PB-N he also led the project to move the company’s business system from an IBM mainframe to a LAN based system.

In 1997 he was appointed Head of Operations for H+S Aviation Ltd, one of Europe’s premier MRO facilities. In his role managing the Rolls-Royce Allison Model 250 Programme, he was responsible for developing a number of systems that were used to manage and  control of OEM publications and work pack generation.He is a member of the Institute of Management, CIPS and Institute of Export.