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MBE MRAeS
Managing Partner
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Ron is the managing partner of Gates Aviation Consulting. For over forty years – thirty five of them with British Airways (BA) – he has worked within the commercial aviation industry. Over the past twenty years, Ron has held a number of senior management positions within BA, including appointments in operations and maintenance planning, business development, customer service and operations, emergency planning and business continuity, ground operations compliance and corporate security.
Most recently, Ron’s responsibilities at BA were focused on crisis management, contingency planning, emergency response and corporate security. He has dealt with a number of corporate incidents, both complex and routine. He was also responsible for launching “business continuity” as a business discipline within the company and for developing robust emergency plans spanning a range of one hundred and sixty five airports in eighty five countries, many with their own cultural issues and complexities. Latterly he was responsible for compliance and policy development related to ground safety and security; and environment and personal health and safety within all ground operations areas of the business.
As head of aviation security in the post-9/11 security environment, his responsibilities have included a complete review of security measures applied to the airline’s global network and cover development of appropriate aviation security policy within the company which aimed to deliver UK and host state compliance with regulatory requirements; the provision of timely security advice and guidance to operational departments; auditing of line station and line management performance; and compliance with the required security measures.
In 1992, Ron was awarded the M.B.E. in H.M. the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for "services to aviation".
