Al Wood

Al Wood is based in New York and joined Warburg Pincus in 2021 as Executive-in-Residence, taking the helm of Aquila Air Capital. Aquila Air Capital is a specialty finance platform focused on providing asset financing in partnership with industry participants as well as purchasing and leasing aircraft, engines and other aviation equipment.

Al Wood brings over 25 years of experience in the aerospace industry to Aquila Air Capital, most recently serving as CFO of Boeing Commercial Services, a $9 billion business unit where he focused on increasing return on invested capital, streamlining the product and services portfolio, and reducing working capital requirements. He previously served as Head of M&A, Boeing Global Services and was the Chief Commercial Officer at AeroTurbine Inc, a subsidiary of AerCap Inc., the largest commercial aircraft lessor.

Career history

• CFO, Boeing Commercial Services (2018-2021)
• Partner, Comvest Partners (2017-2018)
• Chief Commercial Officer, AeroTurbine (2006-2016)
• Director of Sales, AAR (2004-2006)

Mr. Wood holds a B.S. from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from J. L. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

What Al Wood could bring to Aquila Air Capital CEO: With his deep expertise in aerospace finance, capital optimization, and portfolio management demonstrated at Boeing, combined with his prior commercial leadership at AeroTurbine within one of the world's largest aircraft lessors, Wood is positioned to scale Aquila's specialty engine leasing platform. Under his leadership since 2021, Aquila has scaled quickly to become a "household name" in the midlife-to-mature engine leasing space, and the platform's acquisition by Wafra was recognized with an Aviation Finance Deal of the Year award—validating his ability to build and execute value-creation strategies in specialty aviation finance.