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Moses Koyabe Joins Ideal Aerosmith as Director of Test Services Business Development
September 22, 2009
Ideal Aerosmith, Inc. is pleased to announce that Moses Koyabe has joined the Ideal
Aerosmith team as Director of Test Services Business Development. Moses brings over
20 years of experience in Europe and more recently in North America with EADS TEST
& SERVICES, a business unit of EADS.
Moses Koyabe
As a seasoned business development and sales professional, Moses possesses a rare
blend of creative and technical strengths. He has been instrumental in implementing
innovative customer-focused programs that add value and strengthen business relationships.
When he accepted the position, Moses stated, "Ideal Aerosmith is not only successful,
it is an exceptional company. Under Lonnie Rogers’ leadership, Ideal has attracted
and managed to sustain a team of very talented and dedicated professionals. I look
forward to proudly upholding and enhancing the strong customer relationships built
on Ideal’s skilled team and their focused test solutions and services."
Darren Stinson, Ideal’s Senior Vice President of Test Services stated “We are very
pleased that Moses has chosen to join the Ideal team. His vast amount of test industry
experience and his proven ability to solve the complex challenges that our customers
often face will play a key role in Ideal’s growth.”
At Moses’ previous position as Director of International Business, he spearheaded
the formation of an international alliance network with strategic US partners. From
2000 to 2003, Moses oversaw a team of managers responsible for pre-sale and post-sale
account management for clients that included many airline companies, OEM avionics
manufacturers, maintenance and European military organizations.
Prior to 2000, Moses held various project management roles with Aerospatiale, where
he successfully introduced new automated test-related products to market. This included
one of the most popular commercial avionics ATE Systems to date, with over 250 systems
in operation since 1993.
Moses holds a Master of Aeronautical Engineering degree from the French Ecole Nationale
de l’Aviation Civile, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science from the Universite de Nice in France. He is fluent in French,
as well as Swahili. He is an active participant in industry activities, including
numerous ARINC working groups. Moses lives in the Phoenix area with his wife and
3 children and will be based in Ideal Aerosmith's Phoenix office.
Ideal Aerosmith, Inc. is a leading supplier of aerospace test equipment along with
precision inertial guidance test systems, rotational rate tables & centrifuges,
and high- dynamic flight test tables. Ideal has provided cutting-edge testing solutions
to many of the major aerospace manufacturers for more than 60 years. The company
is headquartered in East Grand Forks, MN, and maintains offices in Phoenix, AZ;
Pittsburgh, PA; and Menlo Park, CA.