Our Team

Mr. Garcia has over 17 years of experience in aviation and asset finance. Prior to joining AV AirFinance, Mr. Garcia spent three years in MUFG, most recently as Deputy Head of Aviation Finance, APAC. Mr. Garcia transitioned to MUFG when it acquired DVB Bank’s aviation finance business where he served as Senior Vice President. In his roles at both MUFG and DVB Bank, he was responsible for sourcing and structuring finance leases, limited recourse operating lease financings, PDPs, engine financings, and warehouse facilities across a wide range of airline and lessor clients and jurisdictions in the APAC region. Mr. Garcia also held senior roles at Philippine Airlines earlier in his career dealing with banks, aircraft lessors, and OEMs.

Edel has over 15 years of experience in the aviation industry. Prior to joining AV AirFinance, Edel spent seven years at Goshawk Aviation in a variety of executive roles, most recently within the Corporate Finance function with responsibility for Investor Relations and sourcing a broad spectrum of debt capital. Prior to this, Edel led the Business Analysis function with oversight of structuring and pricing all debt, leasing and trading transactions, and also led the setup of the Finance and Treasury functions. Previous to Goshawk, Ms. Brennan was Financial Controller Ireland at Intrepid Aviation and started her career in KPMG Audit covering both the Aviation and Banking industries. She is a qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA) and holds a Masters in Accounting and a Business Degree.

Mr. Rubinett has almost a decade of experience in commercial aviation and finance. Prior to joining AV AirFinance, he served as Vice President of mba Asset Management where he had responsibility for portfolio management, remarketing, and trading of managed assets, and also advised debt and equity investors on airline restructurings, non-performing assets. Prior to mba Asset Management, Mr. Rubinett worked in capital markets at Aircastle, where he was responsible for raising debt capital and managing debt origination and aircraft trading within the lessor’s various joint ventures, while also raising both unsecured and secured debt for the Aircastle platform. Mr. Rubinett holds a BBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Ms. Bell has joined AV AirFinance as Finance Manager and is responsible for accounting and financial reporting. Ms. Bell began her career in KPMG financial services audit and has since gained over 10 years’ accounting experience from holding finance roles across a range of industries including financial services, retail, and manufacturing. Ms. Bell is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University College Dublin.

Gareth Rowe joined AV AirFinance with responsibility for contract management. Prior to AV AirFinance Mr. Rowe worked for 3 years in Goshawk Management Limited on the contract management team responsible for a portfolio of lessees from Europe and the APAC region.
Previously Mr. Rowe worked on the Director services team in Maples Group from 2010 to 2019 where he was appointed to the Boards of asset and structured finance SPVs. Mr. Rowe began his career in Citibank Europe PLC. Mr. Rowe holds a Bachelor of Business Studies from Dublin City University.

Sarah joined AV AirFinance as a Finance and Operations assistant with primary responsibility for accounts payable and office management. Prior to joining AV AirFinance, Sarah worked with Goshawk for just under 5 years in both operational and finance-based roles, most recently in the accounts payable function on the finance team. Sarah began her career with Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi and has since gained over 10 years of experience in training, customer operations and service, office management and finance. Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree in athletic therapy from Dublin City University and professional diplomas in Accounting and Finance and Management from Dublin Business School.