GAD World Advisory Board

Clive Condie is Ardian’s Airport Operating Partner. Clive was the Chairman of London Luton Airport until June 2018, a position he held for five years when Ardian and AENA acquired the airport. Besides being Chairman, Clive was interim CEO for some time.

Clive was a Director of CLH-PS (Exolum Pipeline System Ltd), the UK’s largest fuel pipeline and storage facility between 2015 and 2021 and was also a Director of Esken plc (formerly Stobart Group) where he served as Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.

Ardian is a world-leading private investment house with assets in excess of US$160bn managed or advised in Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Clive has more than 40 years’ experience in the aviation industry having worked for, amongst others, Manchester Airport and British Airways. Clive has also previously served on the boards of a number of airports including Lima in Peru and Curaçao in the Dutch Antilles.

Clive is a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Brazilian, with an International Executive MBA (FIA Business School) and 
a lawyer. 14+ years of expertise in business development, strategic 
negotiations, M&A, and innovation. Career includes experience on 
private sectors such as infrastructure, mobility, real estate, in regulatory 
environments, and airports public auctions. Currently heading/leading 
Institutional Relations and the Legal Affairs department at Zurich Airport 
Latin America in Brazil, focused on business development, corporate 
governance, and supporting asset management of the LATAM portfolio. 

Also serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Zurich Airport 
Brasil's airports.

Rafael Echevarne is the Director General of Airports Council International – Latin America and the Caribbean (ACI-LAC). Previously, he was CEO of Montego Bay Airport, Jamaica, and held positions in international organizations (Director Economics, ACI-World) and airport companies in Europe, Australasia and the Middle East, specialising in airport economic regulation, privatisation, and infrastructure and business development. Rafael holds a PhD in Air Transport Economics from Cranfield University, UK. and delivers courses on Airport Economics and Management.

Patrick leads Ramboll’s UK & Ireland aviation business and brings over 26 years’ experience in the air transport sector. He is most known in the areas of leadership of strategic and business planning projects, as well as technical expertise in passenger and freight forecasting both for airport transactions and master planning, having worked on forecasts and related market studies for over 125 airports in more than 60 countries worldwide. He is highly experienced in airline and airport strategic and regulatory affairs, market assessments, traffic performance benchmarking and route analysis. He has extensive experience of leading teams advising sellers, buyers or lenders across the full suite of business planning and technical disciplines, as well as working in traffic advisory and forecasting roles, and has been the lead advisor in these fields for a number of successful airport transactions.

Burcu Geris, Deputy CEO and CFO, TAV Airports Holding holds a Business Administration degree from Bogazici University, MBA degrees from Columbia Business School and London Business School. 25 years experience in project finance, M and A and treasury. Previously worked in the banking sector. Joined TAV Airports in 2005 where she was Head of Project and Structured finance team and completed financing and refinancing of eight airport projects totalling US$4.5bn. Appointed CFO in 2012 and Deputy CEO in 2022. Selected as Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum in 2015 and as Rising Talent by Women’s Forum in 2013. Voted as Best CFO in Investor Relations in Turkey by Thomson Extel, Most Effective 50 CFOs and Most Powerful 50 Business Women in Turkey by Fortune magazine.

Dan Galpin is a Managing Director and leads ICF’s Aviation, Travel & Tourism Division.Dan has over 20 years’ experience in the aviation industry, having worked for NATS (theBritish Air Navigation Service provider), as well as Virgin Atlantic Airways prior to joiningICF as an aviation consultant in 2013.

Dan has extensive experience in air traffic forecasting, combining a strong backgroundin complex data analysis and modelling with an in-depth understanding of supply-sidefactors from his first-hand experience at Virgin Atlantic. He has deployed this expertiseon numerous high profile airport transactions in both buy-side and sell-side advisorycapacities, as well as helping airports understand their long-term infrastructurerequirements. In addition to airport-related work, Dan also advises airlines on a numberof different types of assignments, from high-level strategy and planning to developingdetailed network planning models. In recent years, Dan has become increasinglyinvolved in Sustainability, providing consultancy services to government agencies andaviation representative groups, helping to assess policy implications (for example,advising the European Commission on CORSIA and EU ETS policy options) and researchcomplex issues (for example, numerous projects with ACI).

Before joining ICF, Daniel worked at Virgin Atlantic in the Commercial Departmentwhere he was the route revenue manager responsible for delivering budgets on aportfolio of transatlantic routes. In addition, he set up and managed a new analyticsfunction within the department, providing analytical tools and ad-hoc support to avariety of internal stakeholders. Prior to Virgin, Daniel worked at NATS on a range ofprojects from analyzing safety incidents to modelling airspace improvements andforecasting passenger demand and air traffic movements in United Kingdom airspaceand at United Kingdom Airports.

Curtis Grad is chief executive and founding partner of Modalis Infrastructure Partners Inc., a strategic investment and professional advisory services company specializing in international transport infrastructure privatization, investment, development, operations, business intelligence and talent solutions. During his 25+ year career in the transport infrastructure sector, he has led extensive change management and redevelopment programs for various international airport and port facilities worldwide, spanning Canada, Jamaica, Cyprus, Jordan and Panama.

 With over two decades of international banking experience, Alexandre has held investment and advisory positions at HSBC, Macquarie Capital, and IFC. His focus at IFC has been on government PPP Transaction Advisory across the Middle East, and more recently he has been leading these efforts for West & Central Africa, in addition to his global role covering the airport sector.

In the aviation field, Alexandre has been involved in various types of transactions, including public sector sell-side advisory for ECM/IPO type transactions and PPP concession type models. He also has experience in buy-side airport advisory and investment mandates, and is currently involved in four active global airport sell-side transactions. 

Alexandre is a graduate of HEC Paris business school and holds an economics degree from McGill University in Montreal.