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Divisional President, Aviation Group
pmcpherson@accessintel.com
Publisher, Aviation Maintenance magazine & Avionics magazine
dcomiskey@accessintel.com
Editor, Air Safety Week
rlopez@accessintel.com
Editor, Regional Aviation News
Editor-in-chief, Very Light Jet Report
kcreedy@accessintel.com
Editor-in-chief, Aviation Maintenance magazine
jfinnegan@accessintel.com
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Publisher/Editorial director Aviation Today
jpersinos@accessintel.com
Publisher, Rotor & Wing magazine
rjones@accessintel.com
Editor, Aircraft Value News
pleighton@accessintel.com
Editor-in-chief, Avionics magazine
bcarey@accessintel.com
Editor-in-chief, Rotor & Wing magazine
jmckenna@accessintel.com
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Paul McPherson
Divisional President, Aviation Group
Access Intelligence, LLC
Paul McPherson has 29 years of experience in business-to-business media publishing, conferences and trade shows. In addition to launching a number of magazines, newsletters and conferences, in 1994 Paul launched one of the first e-commerce based web sites. This site was the original Gold Medal award recipient for excellence in web sites presented by WebWeek in 1995.
Paul served on the board of directors for several local chapters of BPA for six years and as President of the Boston chapter in 1987. Prior to joining AI (formerly Phillips Business Information) in 1998, Paul served in roles of increasing responsibility with Vance Publishing, IDG, McGraw-Hill and PennWell. Paul has a B.A. in Economics and Marketing from Boston College.
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John Persinos
Publisher/Editorial Director, Aviation Today
John Persinos has enjoyed a long career in the media. He has served as a staff reporter on daily metropolitan newspapers, including The Lowell (Mass.) Sun and The Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel. He has worked on several national magazines, specifically as a staff writer at Inc.; an associate editor of Venture; managing editor of Campaigns & Elections; and editor-in-chief of Rotor & Wing. John also served as a press secretary to U.S. Rep. (now Senator) Byron Dorgan (D-ND).
John is the recipient of numerous journalistic awards, including the Royal Aeronautical Society's prestigious "Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award" in 2001, in the category of "Best General Aviation Submission," for his work on Rotor & Wing. He has co-authored a book, "Boston: In a Class by Itself". He also wrote a book on the media, "The Confessions of an Ink-Stained Wretch", available in bookstores and on Amazon.com.
John holds a B.A. in English, an M.A. in English Literature, and an M.S. in Journalism, all from Boston University. He also completed the Davenport Fellowship in Business and Economics Reporting at the University of Missouri (Columbia) School of Journalism. He currently serves as publisher/editorial director of Aviation Today.
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Dan Comiskey
Publisher, Aviation Maintenance magazine & Avionics magazine
Dan Comiskey has been focused on business-to-business media for more than 34 years. Dan joined Avionics Magazine in 2000 as publisher, and assumed the additional Publisher's position for Aviation Maintenance in 2005. Prior to joining Access Intelligence, Dan worked for Cahners Publishing (now part of Reed Elsevier) in Chicago, Illinois, where he was the publisher of Security World and Security Distributing & Marketing: In 1984 he was promoted to Vice President and assumed the publisher responsibility for Building Design & Construction magazine and in 1989 was appointed the publisher of Building Supply News.
Dan earned a Bachelors Degree in English with a minor in Education from St. Mary’s College.
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Randy Jones
Publisher, Rotor & Wing magazine
Randy Jones is at the helm managing the Rotor & Wing brand, expanding it into new and exciting means of delivering information to the rotorcraft marketplace. With a degree in mass communications and 24 years of B-to-B publishing experience focusing on the aviation market throughout his career, Randy has been associated with R&W for over18 years and brings a depth of publishing experience and market knowledge that is unsurpassed.
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Ramon Lopez
Ramon has over thirty years’ experience as an aerospace and defense journalist, editor and manager for daily, weekly, monthly and bimonthly international publications. He now edits the weekly newsletter Air Safety Week, widely recognized as the “bible” of aviation safety. Previously, he was editor of Unmanned Systems magazine, the Unmanned Science electronic newsletter and AUVSI Show News, published by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). He also was editor of the Precision Strike Digest and the Washington correspondent for Flight International.
He has been a regular contributor to Defense Technology International, Jane’s Airport Review and Professional Pilot magazine. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from the University of Maryland with a minor in Journalism (1972).
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Paul Leighton
Editor, Aircraft Value News
Paul Leighton is founder and managing director of the Aircraft Value Analysis Company, a U.K.-based company that specializes in Future Value Forecasting.
Paul is currently editor of AVAC's in-house periodicals - the Aircraft Value Journal, the Aircraft Value Reference and Aircraft Value News, a biweekly newsletter published by Access Intelligence. He holds a BA(Hons) in International Relations & Politics and has a Master of Science degree in Air Transport Management from the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield University. After starting his career at British Aerospace, Hatfield, in the early 1980s on the BAe146 program, he joined the national airline of Papua New Guinea - Air Niugini. Prior to forming AVAC, he worked for an aviation consultancy company in the U.K. He has made several presentations at conferences and is a guest lecturer on Future Value Forecasting at Cranfield University.
The Aircraft Value Analysis Company was specifically formed in 1991 to provide independent advice regarding current and future aircraft values, and the factors that affect them, to the air transport community. The Aircraft Value Analysis Company's core activity is the provision of current and future market values and lease rates. AVAC does not provide base values and instead seeks to reflect current events and more accurately anticipate future market trends. In addition to providing individual appraisals and market analysis to financial institutions, banks, lessors and airlines, AVAC also publishes The Aircraft Value Reference, the Aircraft Value Journal, and on behalf of Access Intelligence produces Aircraft Value News.
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Kathryn Creedy
Editor, Regional Aviation News
Editor-in-chief, Very Light Jet Report
Author, reporter, editor, freelance journalist, media specialist all describe Kathryn Creedy, but for those in the aviation industry she will always be known as the founding editor of one of the most important weeklies in the industry – Regional Aviation News. Ms. Creedy founded Commuter/Regional Airline News, RAN’s predecessor publication, at the dawn of the golden era of regional aviation in 1982, and nurtured it into becoming the bible of its industry. She has taken Regional Aviation News from the Selectric typewriter, and after a hiatus from the aviation industry, is ushering it into the information age by producing the first regional aviation e-letter.
She began her aviation career at American Airlines before becoming the Midwest bureau chief for Traffic World Magazine. Her experience includes bylines in the top industry publications including some of our toughest competitors – Aviation Week and Space Technology, Airports, Jane’s Airports, Interavia, Air Transport World, Airline Business, and Flight International. In addition, Ms. Creedy authored Time Flies…The History of SkyWest Airlines, which not only chronicled the 30-plus years of one of the nation’s most dynamic airlines, but provided an eyewitness account of the post-deregulation history of the regional airline industry and the changes wrought throughout the its formative years. During her tenure, she was an analyst for major metropolitan dailies and national magazines. She has served as a guest speaker and analyst on regional aviation trends.
Ms. Creedy is also a communications and media specialist. She managed U.S. communications for Embraer. As a crisis management expert, she represented ATR during its 1994 crash, flight restrictions and return to service, consulting for the prestigious Powell-Tate firm, headed by Carter and Reagan Administration press secretaries Jody Powell and Sheila Tate. She has also represented the Federal Aviation Administration specializing in the emerging communications, satellite and navigation branch as well as its regulation and certification branch.
Ms. Creedy lives with her two daughters in Bennington, VT.
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Bill Carey
Editor-in-chief, Avionics magazine
Bill Carey, editor in chief of Avionics magazine, has 25 years of experience as a business, technology and aviation journalist. He served as managing editor of Avionics in a previous stint, and as European Bureau Chief for Avionics and Rotor & Wing magazines, based in London, from 1993 to 1995. He was the recipient of the British Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year award in the business aircraft category in 1997. He is a 1982 graduate of Syracuse University, and holds a master¹s degree in journalism from American University in Washington, D.C.
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Joy Finnegan
Editor-in-chief, Aviation Maintenance magazine
Joy Finnegan has been editor of Aviation Maintenance magazine since October 2006. Prior to becoming editor, Finnegan served as managing editor for the magazine for more than two years. Finnegan has been in the aviation industry since beginning flight lessons at the age of 15. She attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) where she graduated with a BS in Aeronautical Science and commercial/instrument and certified flight instructor/instrument flight certificates. She also holds an airline transport pilot certificate and has 4500 hours of flight time. After graduating from ERAU she became a flight instructor at the university, moved into charter flying, commuter flying, and ultimately flew DC-9s for a regional airline. She has also worked for aircraft manufacturers Cessna and Gulfstream (Galaxy) as a contract administrator.
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Jim McKenna
Editor-in-chief, Rotor & Wing magazine
James T. McKenna has been a journalist for more than 20 years, focusing on aviation operations and safety. Writing for local newspapers in the metropolitan New York area, he covered aircraft noise issues, airport operations, and accident investigations. In his 13 years as an editor for Aviation Week & Space Technology, McKenna reported on the bankruptcies and shutdowns of Eastern Air Lines and Pan Am, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the crash of TWA Flight 800 in New York in 1986. In 1991, he shared the Aviation & Space Writers Association award for excellence in journalism for coverage of aging aircraft issues. He covered satellite launches and NASA space shuttle missions while assigned to Florida's Cape Canaveral, and also reported from there on military aviation, helicopter development, and Latin American aviation markets. In 1994, he was part of an Aviation Week team that won the Aviation & Space Writers Association award for excellence in journalism for coverage of the space shuttle.
McKenna also has contributed to The New York Times, Agence France Presse, Professional Pilot, the Flight Safety Foundation, and Aviation Maintenance. He has served as a media consultant to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and an aviation consultant to CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau. He is frequently called upon by national and international news organizations to interpret aviation news developments. McKenna holds an FAA airframe mechanic's license and a private pilot's license (fixed-wing). He also has completed aircraft accident investigator courses of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and the Air Line Pilots Association. He is a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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