Zeevo Group Taps Stacey Larsen as Senior Advisor to Drive Operational Excellence
Zeevo Group announced the addition of former Deloitte executive and operational strategist Stacey Larsen as a senior advisor.
Zeevo Group announced the addition of former Deloitte executive and operational strategist Stacey Larsen as a senior advisor.
A global aircraft lessor sought to enhance its tracking and reporting capabilities for specific flight routes using the Flightradar24 historical flight data feed. It needed a daily flight alert system and a comprehensive Historical Flight Data Power BI report.
Unveiling King’s appointment as a consultant at Aviation Week Network’s MRO Americas event in Chicago, Zeevo cited her widely respected ability to cultivate industry-wide partnerships and drive growth initiatives within commercial aviation, which will aid her in supporting the firm’s customer relationship efforts.
Joining members of the global aviation community at the signature Dublin Aviation Week, Zeevo shared a summary of the 2023 engagements that helped clients across diverse industries deliver exceptional results and performance.
A globally recognized lessor faced a critical challenge: the need to optimize its existing technical processes and systems to support its rapid growth. To remain competitive in the ever-evolving aviation industry, the lessor sought to enhance the organizational capabilities of their technical department by standardizing and simplifying its operations. This necessitated a strategic engagement with Zeevo professionals to develop a tailored and structured approach to addressing the organization’s complex operational hurdles.
A seamless transition from AerData Stream to AerData Records Management Solution (“RMS”) bolsters an aircraft leasing client’s record-keeping efficiency.
Operating with a lean team entrenched in their daily operations, our client, an aircraft lessor, needed ‘extra lift’ to ensure a seamless migration from AerData Stream to AerData RMS. The objective was to not only bolster the client’s record-keeping efficiency through a cloud-based solution but also to avoid disruptions to their “day jobs.”
Zeevo Group’s professionals partnered with the lessor to design and deploy an automated interface that seamlessly connected the transaction details stored in MS Excel spreadsheets within a SharePoint document library to Kyriba, an industry-leading treasury management system.
The summer 2023 issue of Jetrader featured a Q&A with our Commercial Outreach and Client Success Lead Sophie McAuley, speaking about her experience building a career in aviation and the impact ISTAT’s professional development programs had on her career.
Over the past decade, increasing sustainability concerns among investors and financiers have transformed the commercial aviation landscape, compelling industry participants, including aircraft lessors, to spotlight their environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) policies. Lessors are now giving more importance to the three growing sustainability related factors in their decision-making and business processes.
The first-of-its-kind partnership between Susan G. Komen® and YogaWorks will provide free online classes geared to breast cancer patients and survivors.
Jessica Cruz to leverage her expertise in contract risk and compliance management to support clients’ operational and financial control initiatives.
We’re thrilled to announce that our advisor, Stacy Townes, has joined the board of directors at SheJumps, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the participation of women and girls in outdoor activities.
Zeevo professionals documented the requisite procedures for critical business processes, strengthening efficiencies, delivering leading practices, and providing cross-training to support backfilling across a lessor’s organization.
The Zeevo Group team acted as a project manager during GoDigital Media Group’s recent acquisition of NGL Collective with the backing of MEP Capital, a media and entertainment-focused investment firm.
In the Autumn 2022 issue of Jetrader, Sophie McAuley, Zeevo Group’s Commercial Outreach and Client Success Lead, writes about the ISTAT Foundation’s efforts to connect its scholarship recipients and ISTAT University studentswith seasoned industry executives, so they can gain guidance and inspiration to shape and advance their careers.
The Zeevo Group team acted as a project manager during GoDigital Media Group’s recent acquisition of NGL Collective with the backing of MEP Capital, a media and entertainment-focused investment firm.
We’ve built an A-Z DEI glossary with a comprehensive list of most commonly used and most useful DEI words – covering everything from terms to describe ethnic groups and gender identity to types of bias and privilege – to make it easy for everyone to understand and use on a daily basis.
The Zeevo Group team acted as a project manager during GoDigital Media Group’s recent acquisition of two leading US regional retailers, Bob’s Storesand Eastern Mountain Sports, from the U.K.-based Frasers Group plc.
Zeevo professionals were tasked with designing and supporting the implementation of an inaugural internship program for an aviation client to provide accelerated job placement opportunities for high potential students while building a full-time position pipeline of candidates.
Zeevo professionals assisted the client’s management team in conducting a series of meetings and a multi-day, global off-site workshop that were critical to the leadership alignment.
Zeevo professionals assisted the client’s management team, outside counsel, and the target company’s finance leadership team to obtain and analyze financial information to support a quality of earnings analysis project.
Zeevo professionals have assisted many companies in transforming investor materials into visually engaging content, including a digital media company for which we brought engagement back into their annual report layout.
The mission of the ISTAT Foundation is to promote the advancement of commercial aviation and humanitarianism, and the Internship Program acts as one of mission’s principal pillars.
Zeevo professionals have assisted companies in many industries in transforming investor materials into powerful presentations that effectively tell a succinct company story and relay its investment case in a visually compelling way.
At Zeevo, we utilize a brand messaging app to ensure our team effectively tackles any queries that come their way, consistently communicating what the company does and, most importantly, how clients benefit from our services.
Zeevo professionals will equip your business team with a warehouse of data and a suite of business intelligence tools to deliver users’ self-service modeling, analysis, and reporting capabilities via the web or desktop.
Zeevo’s system selection methodology and understanding of business requirements accelerate the selection and implementation of systems that store and protect information, while ensuring integrity and regulatory compliance.
Zeevo professionals leveraged their expertise in project management to deploy the precise mix of experience and skills required to manage complex projects and deliver the results clients expected for their mission-critical initiatives.
Zeevo professionals designed standard global processes leveraging the client’s current and planned application systems and best practices, as well as provided a multi-year roadmap of transformation initiatives supported by a high-level business case.
Zeevo assisted a global aircraft lessor in equiping its Technical team with a .net web-based application that enabled technical managers to record and track MRO facility details and activity data.
Former Estee Lauder executive has joined Zeevo Group’s Finance Transformation practice to bolsters the firm’s market-leading capabilities and advise clients’ C-suites on strategies to unleash newgrowth and value.
Zeevo assisted a global aircraft lessor in equiping its commercial team with an Apple iOS-based application that enabled executives to record and share customer and market intelligence updates around the clock, from anywhere in the world.
Zeevo assisted a global aircraft lessor to develop a MS Excel-enabled, end-user tool that gave management the ability to perform on-demand what-if scenario workload planning and results analysis via a suite of business intelligence dashboards and reports.
Zeevo assisted a global aircraft lessor to develop an MS Excel-based end-user tool for tracking international registry filing milestone dates and tasks, as well as generating a series of Power BI-based reports to satisfy the reporting requirements.
Zeevo assisted a global aircraft lessor in implementing a Power BI-driven report solution integrated with Leasepoint® to meet the insurance review reporting requirements.
Zeevo Group assisted a global aircraft lessor to design and develop the integration solution that automated the extraction of data from Leasepoint for consumption by Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Zeevo Group assisted a global aircraft lessor to create a master list of overdue terms and remediate the applicable payment schedules and invoice templates in Leasepoint.
Zeevo Group assisted a global aircraft lessor’s legal department with the design and deployment of a Power BI report that automated the extraction of lease agreement, asset, and asset history data from Leasepoint to meet the reporting requirements.
Zeevo professionals have assisted lessors to assess and implement processes that streamline reporting and reduce the risks associated with the inaccuracy of self-declared utilization statements, averting negative revenue impacts.
Former Intellectual Ventures and Deloitte expert Stacy Townes has joined Zeevo Group’s Finance Transformation practice to augment the company’s audit, risk, and compliance capabilities in continued efforts to deliver market-leading finance solutions to clients across industries.
Zeevo Group developed and implemented a data warehouse solution for a global aircraft lessor that leveraged the data from Leasepoint® and a collection of data warehouse aware MS Excel spreadsheets to fill any reporting data gaps.
Zeevo Group developed monthly and quarterly views of component utilization data for a leading global lessor’s startegic planning team, which included year-over-year, average, and percentage change over time calculations.
Zeevo Group designed, developed, and installed a Technical Specification report and an optimized ADS template for a leading global lessor to use when collecting up-to-date aircraft data.
Zeevo Group developed an integrated .net web application for a global aircraft lessor’s technical department, leveraging fleet and lease data in Leasepoint® to inform decision-making by enabling tracking and visibility into key technical project details.
Zeevo Group developed and implemented a solution that extracts Office 365 user sign-in audit logs and transforms them for business intelligence use.
Zeevo Group developed and implemented a new Leasepoint® installed report for a leading global aircraft lessor to project redelivery condition compliance and maintenance status details at redelivery or earliest possible termination.
Zeevo Group developed and implemented a solution for a leading global aircraft lessor to extract lease file information from SharePoint and fleet details from Leasepoint to integrate both sets of data for use with business intelligence tools.
Zeevo designed, developed, and implemented a solution for a leading global lessor that forecasts aircraft’s maintenance status (e.g., future shop visits) and associated cashflows for each component on a day-to-day basis.
Zeevo Group organized an offsite meeting for a technology client’s cross-departmental team to onboard a high-level executive and facilitate a hands-on transition, accounting for organizational politics, culture, and people pain points.
As a trustee, Joey will support advancing the far-reaching initiatives that have earned the ISTAT Foundation an industry-wide reputation as a leader in shaping the next generation of aviation leaders.
Our new Advisory Board member and former Boeing business and finance leader joins Zeevo’s Finance Transformation practice to bolster the company’s capabilities and provide innovative end-to-end solutions to clients’ evolving financial and operational challenges.
Our aviation client was challenged with standardizing policies & procedures to ensure compliance with management’s expectations and regulatory standards. Zeevo professionals documented the requisite procedures for critical business processes, strengthening efficiencies, delivering leading practices, and providing cross-training to support backfilling across the organization.
Our client was challenged when developing a comprehensive finance organization vision and design, with its resources being constrained by the current economic climate. Zeevo Group was engaged to benchmark the Finance function against leading industry performers, as well as assess the maturity of the company’s internal finance processes.
Several of our clients wanted to up their game by building a distinctive and compelling presence on social media channels for their organizations and employees. Zeevo’s Creative Services team collaborated with management to leverage our #communications toolbox to develop a customized social media strategy with company and employee profile branding guidelines and engagement activities.
Several of our clients faced the challenge of building a unique and compelling internal identity for their organizations that would effectively transform employees into willing brand advocates. Zeevo Group’s Creative Services team collaborated with management to leverage our visibility-building expertise to create a positive internal brand strategy along with visual assets that connected employees to clients’ external brands.
Zeevo professionals assisted the lessor in establishing a robust data entry process for Leasepoint®, with built-in quality assurance, input methodology, staff training, and status trackers to facilitate the sourcing and entry of data.
Our CEO Joey Johnsen is one of Business Journals Leadership Trust’s experts who frequently share their thoughts on best practices and advise businesses on how they can achieve excellence in operations, deliver exceptional value to customers, and cultivate a highly effective workplace culture.
Zeevo professionals assisted a global aircraft lessor in defining business requirements and facilitating a records management system selection project. The client benefited from a tailored approach to the selection process that delivered a custom road map and clear project framework, leveraing our team’s extensive records system experience and inights into the requisite vendor evaluation criteria, price negotiations, and potential system implementation challenges
Zeevo professionals deployed our integrated DM approach for a leading global lessor that required the transformation and migration of #aircraft fleet data following the acquisition of a competitor’s platform. The client benefited from Zeevo’s in-depth integration experience, achieving alignment before the cut-over and alleviating challenges associated with switching from existing systems to target systems.
Following the acquisition of a competitor’s platform with a sizable aircraft portfolio, a leading lessor needed to shut down its existing ERP in favor of implementing AerData’s CMS® and Infor’s SunSystems® application systems for the combined entity. Zeevo Group’s professionals devised an integrated implementation plan and facilitated the transition to the new ERP systems, with the goal of harmonizing process, data, and compliance requirements and minimizing the impact on day-to-day operations.
Zeevo Group’s internal audit and compliance team has assisted a NASDAQ-listed real-estate development company to bring its operations in line with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Leveraging our team’s strategic thinking, technical capability, and deep-seated SOX insights, we ensured our client’s team got up-to-speed on the latest legislation and put in place the required processes to help inform business decision-making and enhance internal control.
Zeevo Group has assisted a leading media / technology company that was challenged in managing a portfolio of $200 million+ in deals through completion. We reviewed the existing processes and assessed the required level of project oversight needed from key process owners and stakeholders, with a focus on improving governance, transparency, and team communication.
Zeevo designed and facilitated a custom, scenario-based training and led multi-departmental training sessions, both in-person and remotely, supported by Zeevo-authored end-user manuals and desktop procedures.
Zeevo Group’s cross-functional team of Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Technology professionals has assisted many client organizations, particularly in aviation aircraft leasing, in maintaining effective PMO oversight and support for their pre- and post-M&A integration processes.
Zeevo Group’s multidisciplinary team of Technical and Contract Risk and Compliance professionals has assisted a global aircraft lessor to deploy a Repeatable Aircraft Inspection and Technical Audit Monitoring Program supported by a Technical Monitoring Scorecard.
The Zeevo Group Technical team has assisted a global aircraft leasing company with gathering and reconciling utilization and technical data for each contractual component of their mid-sized aircraft fleet. The client benefited from new processes that resulted in significant improvements in timely receipt of utilization reports and efficient maintenance of accurate and current operator information through automated information collection tools and utilization reporting dashboards.
The Zeevo Group Finance team has assisted a consumer product client in improving operational and control processes that resulted in a reduction of errors, an efficient handling of exceptions, and a streamlining of each period-end close. As a trusted advisor, we reviewed the existing processes and identified improvement opportunities and efficiencies for the organization, while developing and deploying harmonized, synchronized, and rationalized policies and procedures.
Creating a world-class Information Technology (“IT”) operating model requires gaining an in-depth understanding of the strategic technology needs of an organization, as well as coalescing the human aspect of its operation – the people who employ the technical tools to innovate, optimize processes, and solve operational challenges.
Managing risk has never been more imperative as aviation businesses are charting their paths toward recovery—and the eventual resumption of growth—while eyeing emergent investment opportunities amid the Covid19-strained global operating environment.
With increasing numbers of potential clients and new hires turning to mobile devices to interact with businesses and examine their footprints, having a spiffed-up website is no longer enough—social media pages, in particular employees’ pages from the C-suite to interns alike, are becoming the center of attention.
CFOs and their teams must be at the ready to support a broad range of portfolio enhancing transactions to capitalize on evolving market opportunities and prep platforms for post-pandemic re-restart and re-acceleration of growth.
The new strategic alliance aims to deploy the companies’ capabilities, tech tools, and know-how to deliver commercial aircraft technical services to clients in the Americas and beyond.
Part of effective lessee management and retention is knowing how to communicate effectively. Read an article in Airfinance Global Dublin 2020 conference daily which appeared on January 22, 2020.
Joey Johnsen will support AWAR’s ongoing efforts to help propel the next generation of women to key leadership positions across the aviation industry.
With the announcement of changes to its executive leadership, the company has reiterated its commitment to innovation and expanding capabilities to advance to the next stage of development.
Explore what makes business intelligence dashboards stand out in a video series from Zeevo Group and learn how to design impactful BI visualizations.
Former Aircastle executive’s hire further expands Zeevo’s aviation capabilities and expertise in advanced analytics to deliver solutions for lessors and OEMs that drive sustained operational efficiency and profitability.
Demands on corporate treasury are changing. Is your chief financial officer
equipped to keep up?
Paul McDowell, Zeevo Group’s Senior Advisor, spoke with HSBC’s Jeff Bevelander, Thought Leadership, Global Banking, about his career in finance, the challenges he is facing in his role as Treasurer, and how technology has transformed the field.
CMS can significantly improve your aircraft leasing operations. Zeevo has the professional expertise to optimize CMS and enhance your existing reporting and BI capabilities.
Leasepoint is a powerful and flexible tool for enhancing an aircraft lessor’s operations. With in-depth knowledge of the daily workings of a leasing platform, Zeevo Group can deliver a tailored, customer-focused and nimble approach to the Leasepoint system’s optimization.
Aircraft lessors must ensure that lease contracts maturing beyond 2021 incorporate fallback provisions in case LIBOR is unavailable, enabling their platforms to transition to an alternative reference rate.
Driven by growth ambitions and facing the accelerating pace of market consolidation, lessors with well-implemented enterprise architectures benefit from both cost- and differentiation-based competitive advantages over their rivals.
Zeevo clients, in particular aircraft lessors, now have access to the firm’s comprehensive treasury advisory services augmented with Salmon’s integrated treasury platform
Business Intelligence, data and analytics solutions have the power to deliver meaningful, measurable, and sustainable operations improvements
A successful implementation of Leasepoint or the enhancement of an existing system requires a trusted technology partner who has in-depth knowledge and industry expertise.
The company is named to the National Registry of Continuing Professional Education (“CPE”) Sponsors, offered by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy.
The collaboration leverages the company’s expertise in technology and aviation to build the NPO’s online presence and reinforce its brand.
Today, Zeevo is celebrating its three year anniversary, reflecting on the opportunities where we’ve played a significant role for our clients
With the new year 2019 in full swing, what a fitting time to reflect on and acknowledge all the hard work and effort of our exceptional global Zeevo team in 2018.
The company continues to expand the capabilities of its Treasury Practice to deliver innovative solutions for world-class finance operations
The company continues to expand the capabilities of its Treasury Practice to deliver innovative solutions for world-class finance operations
Delivering finance integration success through flawless execution: strategic value of IT in M&As
Zeevo Group explores how data-driven business and technology solutions are expected to impact and alter the competitive business landscape in the aircraft leasing industry in the near future.
We, at Zeevo Group, recognize the importance of continuous improvement in every aspect of operations. We applaud this year’s winners for achievement, innovation, and brilliance within the aviation finance industry, which have propelled their businesses to new heights.
Zeevo Group Principals and aircraft leasing veterans, Joey Johnsen and Karen Curtis, underscore the importance of rigorous data analysis in enabling lessors’ rapid decision-making and bolstering their competitive advantage
Consultancy Delivers Rigorous Data Analytics Solutions for Lessors to Enable Rapid Decision-Making and Bolster Competitive Advantage
Company Continues to Strengthen Position at the Forefront of Providing Financial and Enterprise Systems Solutions Impacting the Marketplace
Lessors are progressively utilising asset information-related enabling technologies to more effectively track engine status, location and future expectations, differentiating themselves from the competition and maximising maintenance revenue.
Our EA methodology is agile; we design and implement architectures that can evolve over time rather than the traditional ‘current versus future state’ approach
Seattle-based Zeevo Group took advantage of the ISTAT Foundation Internship Program by hiring Joshua Trygg
Company Continues to Pursue Opportunities to Acquire Expertise to Generate Innovative Solutions for Aircraft Lessors
Zeevo Group flags the risks to the aviation finance industry and shows lessors how to safeguard against them
Growing Team Continues to Expand Presence at Leading Industry Events to Apprise Lessors of Next-Gen Data Security and Process Improvement Solutions
A partner to the growing aircraft leasing industry…
Colleagues from across the aircraft leasing industry are gathering this week in Hong Kong at the 18th Annual Asia Pacific Airfinance conference.
In an ongoing effort to educate executives about the ever-expanding data requirements within the aviation industry, Zeevo Group has published an editorial in the Airfinance Journal’s annual magazine, which examines the ways to ensure the accuracy, efficiency, and efficacy of a leasing company’s vital data to prevent any outsize impact on its financials.
Ross will help Zeevo offer its clients cash‐flow forecasting expertise, especially in relation to aircraft and engine leasing, the company says.
Zeevo Group Principal John McCartney to Discuss Enhanced Data Analytics.
Zeevo Group (“Zeevo”), a leading provider of professional services, today announced the addition of Ethan Ross to its rapidly growing team.
Sandra Telfare to lead Treasury Management Advisory Practice
Industry Executive Sandra Telfare Joins the Company’s Leadership Team
The 37th Annual North American Airfinance Conference was this past month in New York. Check out all of the remaining Airfinance conferences and events for 2017.
Zeevo is honored to have worked with the Airfinance Journal and acknowledge the outstanding leadership and efforts of those companies and individuals recognized with 2016 Global Awards at the 37th Annual North American Airfinance Conference in New York this past month.
We are thrilled to join our colleagues and other industry leaders this March in San Diego while also increasing awareness of Zeevo and spreading the word about our company and services.
Karen Curtis, principal at Zeevo Group, explores a gap in the leasing market for outsourced IT solutions and enterprise software development.
We are very excited to announce that as of December 2016, Zeevo Group LLC is a corporate member of ISTAT (International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading).
Joey Johnsen, principal at Zeevo Group, explores the unique technology demands of the aircraft leasing industry.
Company led by former ILFC Executives will provide information technology, finance and software solutions for the aircraft leasing industry.