ISTAT Chats 3 August 2020

Bryson Monteleone is a Senior Aviation Finance Advisor to PwC Ireland. Bryson has over 20 years’ experience in the commercial aviation industry. With an extensive background in commercial aviation finance, specifically aircraft appraisal and valuation, lease advisory, aircraft technical consulting, and aircraft remarketing. Throughout his career Bryson has worked closely with, and advised - airlines, aircraft leasing companies, aircraft manufacturers, governments, rating agencies, institutional and alternative investors, and banks. As a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on aircraft finance, leasing and valuation, he is requested frequently to brief and provide advisory to investors that are looking to deepen their aviation exposure and better understand aircraft values, maintenance forecasts and market dynamics. As an ISTAT Certified Senior Appraiser, Bryson has provided both valuation and technical due diligence assistance to both buyers and sellers of aircraft, including current market appraisals and on-site physical inspections of the aircraft and associated records, along with end of lease and return condition analysis in conjunction with an operating lease. Earlier in his career Bryson was heavily involved in valuing and appraising many of the larger Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificate (EETC) and Asset Backed Securitization (ABS) projects for the capital markets, as well as providing intrinsic valuation advisory for OEMs, leasing companies, hedge funds, banks airlines and institutional investors. Bryson currently serves as the Chairman of the ISTAT (International Society of Transport Aircraft Traders) International Appraisers Program (IAP) and a member of the ISTAT Board of Directors.

Christine Rovelli is currently the Vice President and Group Treasurer of Finnair Oyj, the flag carrier of Finland. Christine started her career at Finnair in 2012 in the Resource Management group, which was comprised of network and traffic planning. Since becoming Finnair’s Treasurer, she has played a key role in the Company’s capital structure and strategy efforts, managing a team responsible for secured and unsecured financing in the bank and capital markets, liquidity management, cash management and payment systems, the Finnair pension fund, implementation of accounting standards such as IFRS 9 and 16, and the hedging of Finnair’s jet fuel, interest rate and currency exposures. Prior to joining Finnair, Christine worked in investment banking in London and New York, advising airlines, aircraft lessors, shipping companies, and logistics providers on restructurings, M&A and capital markets transactions. Christine is a member of the IATA Treasury Working Group and is a Trustee of the ISTAT Foundation. In addition to pastry and viennoiserie certificates from Le Cordon Bleu, Christine has a BA from the University of Illinois, and an MBA (with concentrations in Accounting and Analytic Finance) from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.