Professional Aviation Associates, a Greenwich AeroGroup company, announced recently that it has added a regional sales manager to its sales team.
Aria Bahawdory joins PAA as the new regional sales manager. In this role, he will focus on building and growing relationships with both new and existing customers.
Bahawdory has extensive experience in aviation B2B sales and marketing, including 18 years of combined business aviation sales and corporate aviation experience as a commercial pilot and operations manager.
Before coming to Professional Aviation Associates, Bahawdory acted as Flight Operations coordinator at Imagine Air Jet Services and played multiple roles at Jet-IFE including marketing and sales consultant, technical support specialist and manager of the company’s financial and operations business. Most recently, he served as the fleet/charter regional account manager for FDS Avionics Corp. where he developed and maintained business relationships as well as marketing output for commercial and charter operations.
Bahawdory earned his Associate degree in aviation management from Lenior Community College and his Bachelor of Science in management and organizational development from Mount Olive College. Additionally, he served in the United States Navy for four years.