NEW YORK, NY—(Marketwired – Sep 17, 2013) – Winston Baker, a leading global producer of finance conferences, will be hosting the 6th Annual Aviation Finance Summit at the Dream Hotel Downtown in New York City on October 15, 2013. Each year, the Aviation Finance Summit brings together executives from around the world representing billions in capital and fosters discussions on how to continually fuel the industry’s growing needs for financing such capital-intensive aviation businesses and their increasing demands from new markets globally. Industry leaders will share their views on the shape of the aircraft leasing market; new money resources; utilizing capital markets; the future of ECA financing; monetizing on the used aircraft market; navigating through the globalization of deals and the Cape Town impact; and the lease accounting debate. The summit has hosted the most notable names in the business and this year is no exception. The speaking faculty will include:

Eric Adema, Principal, VX CAPITAL PARTNERS
Francois Collet, Senior Vice President, Capital Markets Financing, AIRBUS
Kirsten Bartok, Managing Partner, AIRFINANCE
Reno Bianchi, Managing Director, THE SEAPORT GROUP
Evan Carruthers, Partner, TPG CREDIT MANAGEMENT
Christopher Chaput, Managing Director, RPK CAPITAL
Killian Croke, Partner, FS Audit, KPMG IRELAND
Louis E. Emery, Assistant General Counsel for Transportation, EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES
Sergio Novis Filho, Institutional Relations, BRAZILIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Pradeep Hathiramani, Managing Director & Head, FIRST STAR AVIATION, LLC
Michael Inglese, Chief Financial Officer, AIRCASTLE
Yevgeniya Levitin, Managing Director, Transportation Group, CREDIT AGRICOLE
David Lloyd, Portfolio Manager, CARLSON CAPITAL, LP
Alison A. Mason, Managing Director, AMUR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP
Abdol Moabery, President and Chief Executive Officer, GA TELESIS
Steve Rimmer, Chief Executive Officer, GUGGENHEIM AVIATION PARTNERS
Gary Rothschild, President, Merx Aviation Finance, LLC
Betsy Snyder, CFA, Director, Corporate & Government Ratings, STANDARD & POOR’S
Marshall Sonenshine, Chairman and Managing Partner, SONENSHINE PARTNERS
Mark Streeter, Managing Director, North America Credit Research, JP MORGAN
Steven Townend, Deputy Managing Director & Chief Commercial Officer, BOC AVIATION
Olivier Trauchessec, Managing Director, Head of Aviation Finance-Americas, BNP PARIBAS
David Yu, CFA, Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, INCEPTION AVIATION HOLDINGS LIMITED
Kostya Zolotusky, Managing Director, Capital Markets Development, BOEING CAPITAL CORP.
Supporting partners of the summit include Airline Weekly, Asset-Backed Alert, Aviator.aero, Hedge Fund Alert, and Sonenshine Partners. Companies interested in participating at the 6th Annual Aviation Finance Summit should review details and register online at www.AviationFinanceSummit.com.