FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd. announced that it has made management changes at the company. Derek Payne has resigned from his position as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at FLYHT effective March 16 to pursue other opportunities. Alana Forbes, CPA, CGA, has been named as his replacement, effective immediately.

Alana has been Controller at FLYHT for the past ten years and though she will be new to the CFO position, she has the complete confidence of the Chief Executive Officer and the Board of Directors. Prior to FLYHT, Alana was the Assistant Controller at Mentor Engineering Inc. and before that she spent six years at Marsh Canada Ltd. in several positions, including Assistant VP Finance. FLYHT also hired Steve Newell in the position of Vice President, Business Development in January 2018.

Prior to joining FLYHT, Steve was TrueNorth's (Satcom Direct Avionics ULC) Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for leading the sales, marketing, business development and product management teams.