Terry Stinson
Chairman of the Board
Chair, Strategic Planning Commitee
Carey Bond
Vice-Chairman of the Board
Chair, Compensation and Human Resources Committee
Dorith Hakim
Director
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pamela Levesque
Director
Richard Caswell
Director
Chair, Audit and Finance Committee
Michael Faber
Director
Chair, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Rick Rosenjack
Director
Terry Stinson
Chairman of the Board
Chair, Strategic Planning Commitee
Terry Stinson was appointed Chairman of the Board in November, 2018. He has been a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Compensation Committee since 2014. Mr. Stinson is Chief Executive Officer of his own consulting practice, Stinson Consulting, LLC, a firm engaged in strategic alliances and marketing for the aerospace industry. He is currently an independent consultant to AAR Corp, after having served as Executive Vice President since 2013, and as Group Vice President from 2007 until 2013. Mr. Stinson has served in various executive management positions, including Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.; Group Vice President and Segment President of Textron Aerospace Systems and Components for Textron Inc.; and President of the Hamilton Standard Division of United Technologies Corporation. Mr. Stinson is currently a director of Lennox International Inc., serving on that company’s Board Governance and Compensation and Human Resources Committees. Mr. Stinson previously served as a director of Triumph Group, Inc. from 2003 to 2008.
Carey Bond
Vice-Chairman of the Board
Chair, Compensation and Human Resources Committee
Carey Bond joined CPI Aero’s board in 2016. Mr. Bond’s career spans over 30 years in the aviation industry, spending 10 years at Sikorsky Aircraft until his retirement in 2015. During his tenure at Sikorsky, he served in various executive capacities including Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Chief Marketing Officer, and finally, as President of Commercial Systems & Services until 2015. Prior to his tenure at Sikorsky Mr. Bond also had a successful 17-year career at Bell Helicopter Textron, holding positions of increasing responsibility, including Executive Director of Marketing and Government Relations and Vice President of Customer Support and Services. Mr. Bond has previously served on the boards of privately-held PZL Mielec Aircraft Company, Shanghai Sikorsky Aircraft Company and New Eclipse Aerospace. Mr. Bond holds a Master of Business Administration from Texas Christian University.
Dorith Hakim
Director
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dorith Hakim was named President and Chief Executive Officer of CPI Aero in March, 2022. Ms. Hakim has a diverse and extensive experience in the aerospace industry. Most recently, she served as Group Vice President of Parker Hannifin Aerospace where she directed global supply chain for 11 divisions, 25 manufacturing sites and two joint ventures, and was accountable for $1.9 billion of spending. Before joining Parker Hannifin, Ms. Hakim was at Triumph Group first as Vice President, Corporate Program Management and Operations Excellence where she was responsible for implementing best practices in program management, delivery, and quality performance as well as continuous improvement for four divisions and before that as Vice President, Program Management Precision Components, responsible for major programs within seven operating companies and 22 sites, overseeing delivery and quality performance, proposal estimating, and customer contract negotiations. Ms. Hakim earned an Executive Master of Business Administration from Texas Christian University and a Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration and Finance from H.E.C. at the University of Montreal. She is certified as Six Sigma Black Belt and has received several executive leadership certifications.
Richard Caswell
Director
Chair, Audit and Finance Committee
Rick is an aerospace executive with extensive experience in financial planning & analysis, government contracting, accounting, M&A, treasury, taxation and pension fund management. Rick is currently a senior advisor with a major transportation company. Rick retired after 22 years with United Technologies Corporation (UTC). In his latest role he served as Vice President, Finance & CFO for the Power, Controls and Sensing System segment of United Technologies Aerospace Services. In this assignment he had responsibility for the successful financial integration of major units of the Goodrich Aerospace acquisition by UTC – the largest aerospace combination in history. He also served as V.P., Finance & CFO of Sikorsky Aircraft and Pratt & Whitney Canada - two units of UTC. Rick joined UTC in 1993 in the Pratt & Whitney, Controllers’ Department where he became V.P. Controller. Rick started his career at Price Waterhouse in Hartford. He spent 10 years with the firm in Connecticut serving multinational clients as a Senior Audit Manager prior to joining UTC. Rick was a certified public accountant and received a B.A in economics from Alfred University and an M.S. in accounting from Syracuse University. In his spare time Rick is a private pilot, fitness runner and open water scuba diver.
Michael Faber
Director
Chair, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Michael Faber is Chief Executive Officer of NextPoint Management Company, Inc., a strategic advisory firm to family offices on issues such as direct investing, manager selection, trust and estates, charitable giving and intergenerational communications. From 1990 to 2008, Mr. Faber was a General Partner of the NextPoint and Walnut family of investment funds, focusing on private equity, venture capital and structured investments. He has invested in more than 90 companies, served on dozens of boards, and helped to manage more than 30 successful exits. Mr. Faber is an honors graduate and John M. Olin Fellow of the University of Chicago Law School and attended Johns Hopkins University and the State University of New York.
Pamela Levesque
Director
Pamela joined CPI Aero’s Board as a Director in 2023. Pamela is a financial executive with over 35 years of experience in the aerospace and defense industry including P&L management, government contracting, budget control and cost reduction, process improvement, project management, systems implementation, and operational management. Pamela is currently Vice President and CFO of her family real estate business, APL Investments LLC. Prior to her retirement in 2017, she held the position of Director of Business Operations at Aerojet Rocketdyne providing leadership to the West Palm Beach financial organization including the financial integration of the Rocketdyne acquisition. Pamela also held the position of Group CFO, Structures & Systems at AAR Corp. leveraging her diverse financial and business background by overseeing six manufacturing businesses, including two international businesses. A significant portion of her career was spent at Pratt & Whitney, a division of Raytheon Technologies, where she initially began as an analytical engineer and ascended through the ranks to become Manager of Financial Operations, Business Unit Controller, and Director of Financial Operations. Pamela holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree from Valparaiso University and earned her MBA from Florida Atlantic University.
Rick Rosenjack
Director
Rick Rosenjack joined CPI Aero’s Board as a Director in 2023. Rick’s leadership experience in the aerospace industry spans across publicly-traded, privately-owned, and private equity-backed businesses. He currently serves as President and CEO and Board Director of NWI Aerostructures since 2017. Rick started his aerospace career with Textron Aerostructures in 1985, and in the earlier part of his career, led functional teams and business processes in multiple disciplines including operations, supply chain, sales and marketing and program management. Since rising to executive management, he twice led multi-site, international businesses of more than $1 billion in annual revenue with Triumph Group and Bell Helicopter Textron. Rick earned a B.S. degree from Bethel University and an MBA from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management. He has completed advanced management programs at Harvard Business School and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.