Roger Whyte has enjoyed a long and illustrious career in aviation commencing with Cessna Aircraft Company starting in aircraft sales in Austria in the 1970’s for the then aircraft dealer for the brand before being subsequently recruited by Cessna into Citation sales covering Europe, Middle East and Africa and progressively taking increasingly more responsible positions with the Company. In 1994 Roger became the Wichita based SVP Worldwide Sales & Marketing and a member of the Senior leadership team of the Company as well as becoming Chairman of Cessna Pacific in Australia. During that time he contributed to one of the longest and largest expansions of the Citation fleet during which numerous new airplanes, including the highly successful CitationJet series, Citation Mustang, Citation Excel, Citation Sovereign and, at that time, the world’s fastest business jet, the Citation X were launched. During his tenure Roger Whyte was actively engaged in the US Business jet industry, was a member of the Board of Directors of the NBAA, Director of the National Aviation Hall of Fame and a founding Director of the Air Charter Safety Foundation. Retiring in 2010 after more than 35 years of association with Cessna, Roger has continued to be engaged with all facets of aviation through NBAA including playing a key roll in the laying of the foundations for the ABACE Conventions in mainland China. He is also a nonexecutive Board Member of Duncan Aviation. Roger Whyte holds a Airline Transport Pilots license with multiple Citation ratings. He resides on the Austrian/German border close to Salzburg.