Airways New Zealand appoints new Chief Technology Officer
25 Aug 2016
Airways New Zealand is pleased to announce the appointment of Russell Ambrose as Chief Technology Officer, a new role for New Zealand’s air navigation service provider (ANSP).
“As a technology enabled business, Airways is dedicated to providing safe, efficient and cost effective solutions for driving the long-term growth and sustainability of the aviation sector,” Airways Chief Operating Officer Pauline Lamb says.
“Russell brings with him more than 25 years’ experience in senior technology leadership roles, the majority of which have been in the critical infrastructure sector. Russell’s expertise will support Airways’ ambitious infrastructure investment programme designed to manage safe and efficient operations in New Zealand airspace.”
Mr Ambrose comes to Airways from Vector Limited where he has been Group Manager Information Technology since 2014. Prior to joining Vector in 2011, he was Information Services Manager at Genesis Energy for a decade.
He says, “It’s an exciting time to be joining Airways as we work to build a progressive airspace environment that enables aviation to thrive, with technology having a significant role in delivering this vision.”
Mr Ambrose will be based at Airways New Zealand’s Auckland Airport premises.
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For further information please contact:
Emily Davies
Head of Public Affairs
Airways New Zealand
Email : communications@airways.co.nz
Mobile : +64 21 815 149
About Airways
Airways is a world-leading commercial Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), and operates in New Zealand as a State-Owned Enterprise (SOE).
We look after key aviation infrastructure around New Zealand and manage the more than 1 million traffic movements per year into and around New Zealand’s 30 million square kilometres of airspace.
Airways provides air traffic control and engineering training, and has delivered air traffic management, Flight yield revenue management solutions, navigation services and consultancy in more than 65 countries.
For more information about Airways please visit www.airways.co.nz