David Linke
Executive Search - Aviation, Aerospace & Defense > PE client focus
- Role
- Principal Founder at Aerosource - Executive Search
- Location
- Hudson, OH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About David Linke
Aerospace/aviation specialized search consultant and founder of two search firms, one of which was acquired in 2016 by a $1B+ global HR solutions provider. Market expertise - Airframe and engine component manufacturing and MRO. Aircraft and engine acquisition, sales & leasing. Client focus - Aerospace private equity and privately held businesses. Aerosource provides our clients with exceptional operations executives and the strategic talent required to sustain competitive advantage and profitability for their portfolio investments.Notable search examplesPresident - Crescent Aerospace ( Lionheart Industrial Group)General Manager - Aviation Blade Services (First Aviation Services Inc.)VP Global Sales - TurbineAero (The Gores Group)VP Business Development - Engines (VAS Aero services / H.I.G. Capital LLC) President (2)- Airfoil Technologies International ($250M GE / Sermatech JV)Director of Human Resources - Airfoil Technologies InternationalPresident International - TFX Sermatech International ($400M division of Teleflex Intl.)President -$1B defense capture (confidential search)Vice President / General Manager - TECT Aerospace (Uca Holdings, Stony Point Group)Vice President Offshore Development - TECT Aerospace (Uca Holdings, Stony Point Group)Vice President of Finance - GKN AerospaceCFO - Triax Turbine Components (Torque Capital) Along with 300+ completed searches for Operations, Engineering, HR, Quality, Sales, and Finance.Aerospace/aviation focus:Gas turbine manufacturing & MROPower turbine Manufacturing & MROAirframe Manufacturing & MRO Part 145 operations Aircraft FBOsAircraft and Engine acquisition, sales and leasing Aircraft and Engine aftermarket/PMA partsAirlines Operations and Maintenance Aerospace: FAA Part 145, DER, PMA, Gas turbine manufacturing & MRO, investment casting of turbine airfoils, ceramic cores, airfoil forging. Turbine blades, vanes, disks, cases, shafts, CNC machining, Multi-axis machining. super abrasive grinding, EDM, ECM, laser. MRO- turbine component repair, welding, brazing, coating, thermal spray, plasma spray, HVOF, LPPS, aluminide, exotic alloys, nickel-cobalt, superalloys, titanium.
Experience
Principal Founder
Jan 1990 — Present
Aerosource - executive search - Aero/Power/Defense Manufacturing & MRO
Skills
- Aerospace
- Manufacturing
- Turbines
- Executive Search
- Machining
- Staffing Services
- Power Generation
- Energy Industry
- Technical Recruiting
- Contract Recruitment
- Welding
- Recruiting
- Executive Management
- Maintenance & Repair
- Rpo
- Gas Turbines
- Lead Generation
- Continuous Improvement
- Engineering
- Private Equity
- Six Sigma
- Thermal Spray
- Oil & Gas Industry
- Metal Fabrication
- Coatings
- Operations Management
- Investment Casting
- Upstream
- Retained Search
- Oilfield
- Cloud Computing
- Forging
- Airframe
- Process Improvement
- Strategic Planning
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- Downstream Oil & Gas
- Pma
- Aircraft Engines
- Shale Gas
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