Steven Ades
Steven Ades
Speaker
Chief Financial Officer

Aerfin

United Kingdom

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Open Forum | Beyond EBITDA: What Investors Should Know About USM and MRO

Simon Goodson
Chief Executive Officer,
AerFin
Steven Ades
Chief Financial Officer,
Aerfin

Exclusive. Insightful. Actionable.

For aviation’s sharpest investors, the real story on value creation in MRO and USM is never found on a balance sheet alone. This session goes deeper—challenging conventional metrics and spotlighting the strategic cultures that drive outlier returns, rapid innovation, and enduring competitive edge.

Join industry decision-makers for an insider discussion revealing:

  • How elite technical teams leverage culture to accelerate change, unlock supply chain resilience, and outmanoeuvre disruption - while competitors chase standard EBITA margins.
  • The subtleties behind aftermarket strategy: why firms winning in USM aren’t just “cheaper” but smarter in risk management, staff engagement, and decision velocity.
  • What sophisticated investors look for - signs of leadership credibility, adaptability to regulation and technology shifts, and organizational traits that make financial forecasts a starting point, not the finish line.
  • Live case studies from technical executives that pull back the curtain on how visionary cultures turn operational complexity into alpha for shareholders.

For those seeking more than surface-level multiples, this session promises an unfiltered examination of the factors that separate the merely profitable from the truly investable.