The Directors
 

CAPTAIN H. ANTHONY VIEIRA age 45, with twenty (20) years experience as a helicopter pilot and 10,000+ helicopter flying hours is the Managing Director/Pilot. Capt. Vieira worked with Bristow Caribbean Limited from February 1984 to March 1990, and with National Helicopter Services Limited (NHSL) from April 1990 to February 1996. After forming Hummingbird Helicopter Services Limited, Capt. Vieira returned to Bristow Caribbean Limited as a contract pilot from March 1996 to November 2001. The majority of his flying involved offshore oil and gas support. Capt. Vieira has received training in external load lifting, winching, search and rescue, and EMS. Capt. Vieira is the holder of a U.S. CPL (helicopter) and Trinidad & Tobago ATPL (H) with endorsements on Bell 206, 212, 412, MBB BO105, S76. He has also completed several aviation related courses facilitated by the University of Southern California.

MR. NICHOLAS SUDAN B.SC., CMA, C.A., age 35, his educational background includes a B.Sc. in Management Studies (First Class Honours) from the University of the West Indies, and the professional qualification of Certified Management Accountant from the Society of Management Accountants of Ontario. He is also a Chartered Accountant and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad & Tobago. Mr. Sudan has also been exposed to various training programmes including Development Banking, Financial Restructuring, Total Quality Management, Safety Management and Business Acquisitions. His professional experience includes two (2) years at Development Finance Limited, where he departed as a Senior Investment Analyst. He then spent more than five (5) years with Unilever both in Trinidad and Puerto Rico. At Unilever, Mr. Sudan held various management positions in Accounting, Planning and Purchasing.

Mr. Sudan is now an Independent Business and Personal Management Consultant.

MS. AGNA DA COSTA-VIEIRA B.A. age 44, serves as Administrative Director at Hummingbird Helicopter Services Limited. A result oriented and service driven professional, Ms. Da Costa-Vieira’s diverse experience in the aviation industry is no doubt an asset to our organisation. She commenced her career in the industry as a Traffic Agent with BWIA International Airways in 1984, and worked her way up to Executive Management until her departure in 1998. Some of the positions held by Ms. Da Costa-Vieira during her distinguished career at BWIA included but were not limited to Quality Assurance Coordinator with responsibility for setting and maintaining operational and service standards at those airports to which BWIA operated, Corporate Director In-Flight services with responsibility for the administration of three hundred + Cabin Crew, Director Airport Services with overall responsibility for sixteen (16) international stations.

Ms. Da Costa-Vieira also served as Ground Services Manager on contract to Air Caribbean from September 1999 to October 2000, with responsibility for standards and airport operations systemwide. Ms. Da Costa-Vieira was the designated Project Coordinator for the then Air Caribbean’s move to the new billion-dollar Piarco Airport Terminal facility to be opened in October 2000.

Ms.Da Costa-Vieira's most recent and very significant achievement is the successful transformation of approximately 2000 square meters of the Old Terminal Building at Piarco International Airport in November 2003, to create a safe, secure, regulatory compliant and user friendly Passenger Terminal and Conference Centre for the relocation of Bristow Caribbean Limited's helicopter operations from Galeota Point. The Passenger Terminal was completed in one (1) month with no disruption to the client's operations and no incident, accident or injury time recorded.

 
 
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