TLV Business Aviation Conference

CNN’s foremost international business correspondent and anchor of Quest Means Business.
Quest is the established airline and aviation correspondent at CNN. He has interviewed all
the major airline executives He has covered top breaking aviation stories in the past decades.
The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) awarded Quest the 2013 UNWTO
Award for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his work as a business journalist reporting
on the tourism industry.

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Thomas Nides was confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to Israel on November 3, 2021 and was most recently the Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley. A distinguished public servant as well as a business leader, Nides was the U.S. State Department’s Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources from 2010 – 2013. Earlier, Mr. Nides was Morgan Stanley’s Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Secretary of the Board, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Burson-Marsteller in New York, and the Chief Administrative Officer of Credit Suisse First Boston in Washington, D.C. He also served as the Senior Vice President of Fannie Mae in Washington from 1998 – 2001. Mr. Nides presented his credentials to President Isaac Herzog, who accepted them, on December 5, 2021.

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Chairman and CEO, JSSI

Neil serves as Chairman and CEO of Jet Support Services, Inc. (JSSI), the leading provider of maintenance support and financial tools to the business aviation industry. JSSI supports more than 6,000 aircraft with maintenance programs, parts, software, and other services.

Before joining JSSI, Neil was president and CEO of SMobile Systems, which sold to Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) in 2010, where he served as VP of Mobile Security. He is the inventor of two mobile technology patents.
 

Neil began his career at AT&T. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware. 

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