John Saabas

John Saabas has been the President at Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. since January 2009. He served as an Executive Vice President of Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. from September 2006 to October 2008 and was responsible for engineering, operations, quality, service centres, customer support and marketing. Mr. Saabas assumed increased responsibility to lead Pratt & Whitney Company's day-to-day operations at its headquarters located in Longueuil, Canada. He has been with Pratt & Whitney Company since 1985. He served as Project Engineer and Senior Project Engineer from 1993 to 1997 before taking on responsibilities as Director of New Operations Programs, and Manager, Manufacturing Engineering. In 1999, John was promoted to Vice President, Procurement and Logistics, and the following year, to Vice President, Engineering Development. In 2001, he took on the role of Vice President, Engineering, and in 2003 was appointed Senior Vice President, Engineering and Operations.

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Dominique Deschamps

Dominique Deschamps is an engineer graduate from Ecole Polytechnique after which he followed the fighter pilot course and then joined France's MoD procurement Agency as a program engineer. He followed the light aircraft test pilot course and in 1995 he left the MoD to become VP of General Aviation, Engineering at SOCATA, and involved in the development of TBM 700 versions B and C. Dominique left SOCATA in 2003 to join the Airbus Test Flight Department but continues to fly the TBM as a ferry pilot. He is also an active flight instructor and mountain pilot.