Built from inside the industry. Not the outside looking in.

After nearly two decades in the industry, Courtney Miller has experience spanning operations, sales, fleet and network planning, cargo planning, market forecasting and data analytics.

Before founding Visual Approach, Courtney was with Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, coordinating aircraft transactions with lessors and airlines. He led Bombardier’s Americas airline analysis team for seven years, building the analytical models and business cases behind aircraft transactions. Earlier, he built expertise in cargo network planning and forecasting at DHL, and began his career as a pilot for Comair, where he chaired the local ALPA analysis committee.

Courtney holds an MS from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a BS from Purdue University.

Gueric Dechavanne is Managing Partner and part-owner of Collateral Verifications (CVLLC), where he leads aircraft and engine valuation and advisory across commercial, regional and corporate aviation. With Visual Approach, he publishes the monthly Special Aircraft Report featured in Aircraft Intelligence Monthly.

He joined CIT Aerospace in 2001 as a Marketing Analyst tracking aircraft values and portfolio issues, then joined OAGBACK Aviation Solutions in 2004 as Manager of Valuation Services, heading its Asset Management group from 2006 and maintaining its Commercial Jet Aircraft Value Guide and Lease Rate Guide. At CVLLC since 2008, he develops the Turbine Aircraft Guide and writes the periodic Aircraft Market Overview.

Gueric is a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Aviation Business Administration.

Appraisals with Collateral Verifications

Brett Snyder’s aviation career began in 1996 on USAir’s sales team, followed by pricing and product planning roles at America West, Eos, United Airlines and PriceGrabber.com.

Brett leads the Cranky Concierge team and writes Cranky Flier, one of the best-known blogs in the industry. With Visual Approach he produces Cranky Network Weekly, a competitive network analysis read by hundreds of airline network planners, investors and airports. He brings full context to airline network and pricing decisions — and what they mean for the aircraft business.

Svetlana brings more than a decade of airline operations leadership at Qatar Airways and fleet and MRO market analysis at Lufthansa Technik. At Visual Approach, she supports aircraft valuation and market analysis for lessors, investors, and airlines. She holds an MBA in Aviation Management and an MS in Aviation Finance from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She is certified by NAFA and ISTAT U and is actively pursuing her ASA aircraft appraisal certification.