Jim Clarke

Jim has over 30 years of aircraft leasing experience and has spent time as a lessor, a lender, and an airline customer in the industry. In 1990, he joined GPA, now AerCap, and then spent 5 years at GECAS before joining Merrill Lynch running structured finance in the late 90’s. He has over 5 years experience as an airline CFO and was the CFO of Air Lease working closely with Steve Hazy between 2010-12. Jim now runs an aircraft restructuring boutique to assist airlines and lessors globally.