Dale Hunt
Dale Hunt is a Senior Adviser, Aviation & Aerospace at the The Collins Group concentrating on the aerospace industry. Dale has 40 years of senior leadership and business development experience in high profile areas of prominent, growth companies in the aerospace industry. Dale is particularly effective in aerospace marketing services relative to business development, supply chain management, and M&A activity. He has had extensive senior management experience with an aero-structure manufacturer and integrator, providing major airframe assemblies to fixed and rotary wing OEMs, and with a company providing MR&O services and proprietary products to commercial and military customers internationally. Dale is a ‘people person’ with a career pivoted on conscientious effort, integrity, prudent planning, perseverance and enthusiasm.
- Chairman, Aerospace Advisory Board, Global Business Opportunities Bureau, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.
- Global Practice Lead, Aerospace Sector, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.
- Booked $100M life-of-program OEM contract with new customer for primary aircraft structure, following 25% compound sales growth in previous five years.
- Introduced proprietary products globally to major airlines.
- Identified strategic acquisitions to improve product/service mix and increase customer base.
- Transitioned an SME from military dependency to civilian airline markets.
- Negotiated competitive engine overhaul contracts with new and existing business aviation customers.
- As a 25% owner in a private company, helped survive under recessionary pressures and difficult MBO conditions.
- Initiated a supply chain development and SME global competitiveness focus as an added membership value proposition for national aerospace industry association.
- Re-positioned an expanding, international trade exhibition and convention company in the wake of 9/11.