Altavair, a commercial aviation lease finance company, appointed Brian Rynott senior vice president of marketing for the Americas. Rynott will play a role in expanding relationships and growing Altavair’s managed fleet of leased commercial aircraft.

Rynott has more than 20 years of airline and aviation experience. Before joining Altavair, Rynott held senior positions at Alinda Capital Partners and Alton Aviation Consultancy, where he contributed to the firms’ practice areas in aircraft financing and leasing, airline advisory and restructuring and strategy and management consulting engagements. Rynott was also the chief investment officer with Intrepid Aviation, a commercial aircraft lessor, where his primary responsibilities included implementing, managing and directing the company’s risk and portfolio management groups.

Earlier in his career, Rynott served as vice president of risk management at aircraft lessor AWAS in its Dublin and New York offices. He began his career with American Airlines in a variety of revenue management roles before joining American Express’ enterprise risk management and airline center of excellence teams.