Cheltenham's Ontic announces appointment of new COO

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Peter Davison

Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineered parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, has announced the appointment of Brian Sartain as its Chief Operating Officer.

Brian will be responsible for day-to-day operational aspects of Cheltenham-based Ontic’s global manufacturing footprint and driving Operational Excellence.

Joining the company’s Global Senior Leadership Team, Brian will be based in the US and joins Ontic from AAR Corp, where he was the Senior Vice President of Repair and Engineering Services, and responsible for all businesses associated with Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO), Engineering Development and Manufacturing and led over 3,500 employees.

As an aerospace industry leader for more than 35 years, Brian has successfully held executive posts in all aspects of global business including P&L management, operational excellence, strategy, product development, and management of joint ventures.

Gareth Hall, CEO of Ontic, said: “We are delighted to welcome someone with Brian’s experience to Ontic. Brian shares our growth ambitions and has a proven track record of delivering the sustained operational excellence that will allow Ontic to continue on our mission to deliver a world class service to both to our licensors and to our aviation customers.”

Brian said: “The sustained growth and potential of ONTIC was a major driver in my decision to join the company. Supporting that growth and driving the performance needed by our customers was too good a proposition to resist”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.