GD Helicopter Finance (GDHF), a start-up helicopter leasing and finance company based in Dublin, Ireland, announced the appointment of Michael York as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

​Michael’s career includes over three decades of leadership experience across aviation, military, business, consulting, finance, commercial roles and senior executive positions in multiple countries. Michael previously served as a military leader, helicopter pilot and fighter pilot, flying and instructing on the F/A-18 Hornet, including three years on exchange flying with the US Navy. Michael holds an MBA (with distinction) from the University of Newcastle, and a Bachelor of Science degree (UNSW). Most recently, Michael achieved great success during a 5-year period as the joint Head of Commercial for the world’s largest helicopter finance company.

Michael York said: “I am honoured to lead GDHF as the founding CEO. My goal is to build the best team and platform in the industry, setting a strong long-term culture of customer focus, trust, integrity, excellence, speed and flexibility. I am confident that this approach will deliver significant value for our customers. GDHF will offer our customers near term availability of the newest technology, efficient, cost-effective, multi-mission helicopters, via an existing order book of
50 x Airbus H160 medium helicopters and a near term additional order of Super Medium helicopters, along with the capacity for GDHF to readily deploy additional capital to meet market requirements for Helicopter financing.”