As you have probably heard by now, Jon Beatty, who has been president and CEO of Flight Safety Foundation since April 2014, is leaving the Foundation at the end of this month. Jon’s final President’s Message appears in this issue.
Succeeding Jon is Dr. Hassan Shahidi, who joined the Foundation in mid-January from The MITRE Corporation, where he was director of aviation safety and new entrant integration. Hassan’s first President’s Message will appear in the next issue of AeroSafety World.
Everyone at the Foundation, and its supporters across the industry, owe a debt of gratitude to Jon. He arrived during a particularly turbulent time in the Foundation’s seven-decade history, and he guided the Foundation back to smooth air. Membership numbers and revenues are up; our events are well-attended, well-organized and profitable; we’ve successfully carried out important safety projects (and have more on the way); we launched a new website; and we even moved to a nicer su…
