Senior Partners

Harold “Hap” Pareti
Hap brings a wealth of industry knowledge and experience to every assignment.  A lawyer by training, with a Juris Doctor and Master of Law Degrees in Legal & Regulatory Affairs, and licensed before the Washington,D.C. United States Court of Appeals, Hap served as General Counsel of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board and V.P. Legal for Texas International Airlines.  In these capacities, he was instrumental in writing the U.S. Airline Deregulation Act and the Small Communities Air Service Program.  He has also testified before the U.S. Congress and before the Regulatory and Competition Committees of various foreign governments that sought guidance on airline start-ups and competition.  From an airline start-up and operational/financial standpoint, Hap brings over 30 years of hands-on experience.  Hap was one of the founders and served as President and Chief Operating Officer of People Express (now Continental Airlines) and as the founder and CEO of Presidential Airways/United Express.  He guided these companies through the rigors of an airline start-up and through a massive growth phase that saw revenues grow from $0 to over $1 Billion annually in 4 years.  As part of that process, he has guided multiple airlines, both in the US and abroad, through the regulatory, financing and operational phases.  He has raised over $100 million in equity capital, over $500 million in aircraft leases/acquisitions and has taken two companies on to the public stock market. A key component of Hap’s experience that has been very valuable to our clients is his expertise with airline efficiency and cost containment.  Airlines that he managed first hand had the lowest cost per seat mile by far in the US airline industry and the highest employee and asset utilization.  He also brings over 10 years of experience in the wet lease and aircraft charter business.  Through an affiliate company, Global Airline Services,www.globalairlineservices.net, Hap arranges charter flights for various clients.  His prior consulting experience included serving over 20 airports and communities seeking new or additional service.

Michael R Dolsingh
Michael has worked in aviation for almost three decades.  He started at BWIA International (replaced in 2007 by Caribbean Airlines) where, from its headquarters in Port of Spain, he served as Corporate Development Planner, then as Head, Strategic Planning.  From 1986 he served jointly as Corporate Manager, Finance, Planning & Information and Corporate Secretary.  In 1989 he joined GPA Group plc based in Ireland as Vice President – Marketing, serving for five years also as General Manager, Irish Aerospace, the then joint-venture company of GPA (50%), McDonnell Douglas Corp (25%) and Mitsui & Co (25%), marketing and managing a portfolio of more than sixty MD-80 series aircraft worldwide. His efforts helped establish the MD-83 as the aircraft of choice among the then growing leisure airlines serving the longer-haul charter and schedule markets, utilizing the flexibility and off-balance sheet advantages of operating leases as a key driver in assisting these airlines to introduce aircraft into their fleets and to grow their businesses.  With the acquisition of portions of GPA by the General Electric Company (GE) and the formation of GECAS in late-1993, Michael was named GECAS Senior Vice President and relocated to South Florida in 1994 to help manage and grow the GE aircraft leasing and financing giant’s Latin America & Caribbean business.  Since then, Michael has worked on a myriad of aircraft transactions, and on building and nurturing GECAS’s relationships with the senior managements and other key personnel of airlines and supporting air transportation institutions in virtually every country in Latin America and the Caribbean.  He has also worked extensively with several airlines on their restructurings, including in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.  Until 2007, Michael has been focused especially on the airline business in the Caribbean, Colombia and Mexico, and on growing GECAS’s participation in this important sub-region.  In joining Airline Capital and Consulting Services, Michael is enthusiastic about continuing to work closely with airlines of all sizes in optimizing their fleet planning and acquisition processes and decisions, and in participating actively with these airlines’ managements and his ACCS colleagues in creating, analyzing and implementing solutions to the strategic, financial and operating challenges which confront airlines in today’s rapidly evolving markets.  Before his thirty-year love affair with Aviation, Michael worked on national industrial development projects in the hydrocarbon sector in the Caribbean, and in the pharmaceutical industry in Canada.  He holds business postgraduate and sciences and (chemical) engineering undergraduate degrees.  He and his wife Radica have a daughter Leandra and a son Matthew, both now in College.  The Dolsinghs live near Fort Lauderdale.

Don Greeson
Don entered the airline industry at the age of 18 as a ramp agent, concurrent with attending the University of Miami with an academic major of Aviation Management. Upon graduation he joined The Civil Aeronautics Board, an economic regulatory agency, where his primary focus was Section 401 city pair route proceedings and carrier awards. Don subsequently served with Overseas National Airways and National Airlines, in both cases as assistant to the president and chairman. He has consulted in connection with airline launches, business plans, route development, market planning, industry intelligence and regulatory matters. Don co-founded and was President of The GTW Group, a Florida based aviation consulting firm and currently serves with Global Airline Services, Inc. as well. He also has extensive background in the commercial and contract furniture industry. Don was the Chairman of WorkPlace Furnishings, Inc., a Cincinnati based firm with 250 locations in the US and Canada. He and wife Randy have two adult children, Dana and David, and reside in Pompano Beach, Florida and Syracuse, New York.

Michael Batchelor
Mike has an extensive background and hands on experience focusing on the aircraft technical, engineering and maintenance segments of the airline industry.  He frequently uses his expertise in connection with aircraft acquisition, acceptance and fleet integration.
Mike holds a degree in Aviation Maintenance Management from Colorado Aero Tech, with additional technical schooling provided by Boeing and American Airlines.  He served with American for twelve years, eight of which were at their maintenance headquarters base in Tulsa, Oklahoma, focusing on heavy “C” checks and four years managing line station maintenance at several major cities in the American Airlines network for MD80, 737-800, 757 and 767 aircraft.  Mike also served with Boeing where he focused on the 737, 747, 757 and 767 programs.  More recently Mike served as International Sales Director with PartsBase, the largest e-commerce marketplace database for the aviation industry. This position allowed him to build an extensive network of business relationships internationally as well as domestically.  He also is President/CEO of Airbatch Consulting, which enhances and complements his aircraft focused expertise with ACCS.  Mike has 2 children.  He and his wife Paola reside in Deerfield Beach, Florida.