| 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. |