{"id":15645,"date":"2020-06-08T16:38:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=15645"},"modified":"2020-06-08T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:38:26","slug":"copa-announces-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/international-news\/copa-announces-new-ceo\/%20","title":{"rendered":"COPA Announces New CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bill Mahoney, Interim Chair of the Canadian Owners and\nPilots Association (COPA) Board of Directors, has announced that Christine\nGervais has been appointed its new President and CEO. Ms. Gervais brings with\nher over 20 years of experience in the field of aviation as a commercial pilot,\nan air traffic controller and, more recently, a manager in airspace and level\nof service management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christine-Gervais-COPA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15646\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christine-Gervais-COPA.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christine-Gervais-COPA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christine-Gervais-COPA-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><figcaption><em>Christine Gervais<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Gervais holds a current commercial pilot license which she earned with the Ottawa Flying Club\u2019s Professional Pilot Development Program over 20 years ago. A follow-up float endorsement led to the start of her professional aviation career. She has flown the great de Havilland Beaver in Northern Ontario, a Grand Caravan from Africa to South America (and many more flights and aircraft in between). She completed her final professional landing as a corporate pilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the birth of her son, she successfully trained and joined Nav Canada as an air traffic controller and worked in the Ottawa control tower for nearly a decade. Fluently bilingual in English and French, for the last four years Gervais has been dedicated to management at Nav Canada, with her most recent role in Level of Service. During this time, she gained comprehensive experience as a leader in a high-performance team and advanced her education in project management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has maintained her pilot license recency requirements,\nboth on floats and on wheels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Gervais brings with her not only significant experience in the field of aviation, but also professionalism and leadership skills. Her network has prepared her well to successfully assume the role of COPA\u2019s President and CEO. In addition, her ambition, combined with her professional ethics, exemplifies that she is ready and capable of undertaking new challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her sustained passion for the wide, and sometimes wild, blue\nyonder will serve her well as COPA\u2019s advocate to advance, promote and preserve\nthe freedom to fly for all of General Aviation in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the announcement was sent out to COPA members earlier\nthis week via an email blast and on various COPA social media accounts, initial\nfeedback has been positive, with positive, congratulatory comments addressed to\nboth the outgoing and incoming CEOs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine Gervais (not related to Berard Gervais) will be starting on June 22 and transition with Bernard Gervais for a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Mahoney, Interim Chair of the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) Board of Directors, has announced that Christine Gervais has been appointed its new President and CEO. Ms. Gervais brings with her over 20 years of experience in the field of aviation as a commercial pilot, an air traffic controller and, more recently, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15647,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645\/revisions\/15647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}