New Partners Further Strengthen ASM Team

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MANCHESTER, England, Jan. 17, 2014 /PRN=KYODO JBN/ --

    Further appointments announced for World Route Development Consultants

    Following the recent announcement of new recruits to ASM, the company is

pleased to announce that the team has been further strengthened by the addition

of two leading industry experts.

    Keith Green joins ASM following a successful career with South African

Airways where he was formerly Head of Network Planning and Scheduling,

responsible for the development of the airline's 20 year network strategy.

Prior to South African Airways, Keith held senior network planning positions

within Comair and Kulula.com.

    Keith brings further deep airline experience and is part of ASM's drive to

provide more consulting services across the fast growing markets within Africa.

    David Field also joins the company bringing with him over 30 years of

airport business development experience. David joins ASM following his position

as Business Development Director at King Abdulaziz International Airport in

Jeddah, prior to this role David held a number of senior business development

positions across BAA, including a period as Group Airline Strategy Director for

the company.

    David brings a key appreciation of business development with airports and

airport operator groups in particular.

    ASM's Managing Director, David Stroud, said: "I am really delighted Keith

and David have agreed to be part of the new ASM team. Africa represents an

exciting opportunity for us and to have someone of Keith's experience on board

ensures our service offering will be very strong in this market. With David we

are really able to address the strategic challenges faced by group airport

operators and in particular, how they work to grow their airline customer base

in a multi-site context. Having worked closely with David over a number of

years it is great to finally have him as part of the team."

    From its Headquarters in Manchester ASM serves a truly global client base.

This further strengthening of the team improves again the company's technical

skills, service offering and geographic market coverage.

    Notes to Editors

    About ASM

    Manchester UK - based ASM Ltd was founded in 1995 as the world route

development consultants. http://www.asm-global.com

ASM was the founding company of Routes which organises world-renowned airline

and airport networking events through its regional and global Route Development

Forums. Each year, there is one global event and one regional event in Asia,

Africa, Europe, the Americas and CIS respectively. http://www.routesonline.com

    Routes and ASM were acquired by UBM Aviation Worldwide Ltd in August 2010.  

From 1st August 2012 Routes, ASM and the Airport Cities Conference and

Exhibition become part of the UBM Live division of UBM plc.

UBM Live connects people and creates opportunities for companies across five

continents to develop new business, meet customers, launch new products,

promote their brands and expand their markets.  Through premiere brands such as

MD&M, CPhI, IFSEC, TFM&A, Cruise Shipping Miami, the Concrete Show, the Routes

portfolio of events, Airport Cities and many others, UBM Live exhibitions,

conferences, awards programs, publications, websites and training and

certification programs are an integral part of the marketing plans of companies

across more than 20 industry sectors. http://www.ubmlive.com

    About UBM plc

    UBM plc is a global events-led marketing services and communications

company.  We help businesses do business, bringing the world's buyers and

sellers together at events and online, as well as producing and distributing

news and specialist content.  Our 5,500 staff in more than 30 countries are

organised into expert teams which serve commercial and professional

communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively

and efficiently.

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    SOURCE: ASM Ltd