James Cottle
CEO
Airbus Financial Services
First class honours degree in history at Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University scholar. Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow at Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Massachusetts, USA 1978-79.
1) Citibank, N.A., London Branch, Graduate trainee Asset Based Finance department in 1979. Appointed Resident Vice President in 1985.
2) Airbus Industrie in Toulouse from 1986 until December 1993 as Senior Director, Customer Finance.
1994-2002 Senior Director, Sales Finance, with Airbus North America Holdings, Inc.
2002-3, Head of Participations and Joint Ventures, Airbus S.A.S.
2003-current, Managing Director of Airbus Financial Services in Dublin (Airbus’ principal financing vehicle).
Also member of executive council of Federation of Aerospace Enterprises in Ireland (FAEI)
