Air Maintenance Estonia Appoints Jonas Butautis as its New CEO

July 9, 2014
With 250 employees, AME is a flexible and reasonably priced MRO in Scandinavian and European market.

Air Maintenance Estonia (AME), a Tallinn-based MRO organization, appointed Jonas Butautis as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Jonas Butautis ‎brings a successful track record of developing Total Technical Care MRO businesses, as well as an extensive experience in strategy implementation projects across a number of countries and industries. Before joining AME, Jonas led strategy execution projects for global organizations in Europe, Asia, and Australia. He also serves on the Board of Lithuanian Post, the largest postal, logistics, and financial services company in Lithuania.

'We are delighted to appoint Jonas Butautis as a new CEO of Air Maintenance Estonia. This appointment comes during the exciting times of rapid changes at AME. Jonas is tasked to build on existing AME reputation as a quality MRO provider, and to lead the process of organizational change into a Total Technical Care MRO company. ‎We have full belief that, with the backing of BaltCap as a majority owner of AME, as well as Jonas' experience in the industry, AME is poised for exciting few years of rapid business development', says Kristjan Kalda, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of AME, Investment Director of private equity investor BaltCap.

‎'I am excited to join Air Maintenance Estonia (AME), a company which has always intrigued me with its great reputation for quality, and its potential for global growth. We will realise this potential by developing AME into a truly international Total ‎Technical Care MRO organization, an agile challenger to incumbent MRO players. I look forward to the action-packed few years ahead, and am sure that we will achieve our objectives, placing AME strongly on the global aviation map', says Jonas Butautis.

About Air Maintenance Estonia:

Air Maintenance Estonia AS (AME) is Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Organization, located in Tallinn, capital of Estonia. With 250 employees, AME is a flexible and reasonably priced MRO in Scandinavian and European market. Since 2010 AME is fully owned by BaltCap the leading dedicated private equity and venture capital investor in the Baltic States.

AME offers aircraft maintenance services ranging from Line to Base maintenance activities on Airbus 320 and Boeing 737 (both Classic and NG), component maintenance, engine management, engineering, and asset management services.