Rollie Vincent

President

Rollie Vincent is a founder, co-owner, and president of Rolland Vincent Associates.  With more than 40 years of aviation industry experience, Rollie serves as a trusted advisor to some of the leading business and general aviation organizations in the world. He has held various positions in strategy, marketing, business development, economics, and aviation statistics at Textron / Cessna, Bombardier (commercial and business aircraft), Flexjet, and ICAO.

Identifying a need for enhanced insights into the state of the business aviation marketplace, RVA partnered with JETNET in 2010 to create JETNET iQ, a respected source of independent market intelligence incorporating proprietary voices-of-the-customer research and syndicated state-of-the-industry reports. Since 2011, more than 25,000 business aircraft owners and operators have participated in JETNET iQ’s Global Business Aviation Surveys, creating the industry’s largest and most comprehensive database of customer insights.  He is the architect and chair of the annual JETNET iQ Summit, bringing together titans of the industry to discuss and deliberate issues and opportunities across the global business aviation industry. He is past chairman of the U.S. Transportation Research Board’s Standing Committee on Light Commercial and General Aviation, overseeing subcommittees focused on commercial aviation, business aviation, and helicopters / vertical lift solutions.

A private pilot and lifelong aviation aficionado, Rollie earned a BA and MA in economic geography and an MBA in international business and marketing from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.