Lillian is a highly experienced senior operations leader who is currently Senior Vice President of Technical Operations at Atlas Air.

She has extensive global experience delivering strategic organizational improvements in start-up, turnaround, and mature manufacturing environments. She has spent more than 30 years solving problems, hiring and leading great people and most importantly, delivering results. She has driven development and change initiatives from concept through realized growth and profitability in companies such as Spirit AeroSystems, Beechcraft Corporation, American Airlines, American Eagle Airlines, and GE.

From her start as an electrical and aeronautical engineer, Lillian rose steadily through operational line management levels to ultimately serve at the Company Officer level in Vice President roles at several different companies.

As a Global Operations Executive, Lillian optimizes organizational performance by improving both people and processes in industries such as aerospace, aviation, and engineered products. Her across-the-board strengths in engineering, strategic planning, manufacturing and supply chain, give her the expertise to concurrently shape organizational cultures and deliver strategic results that underpin the bottom line.

Lillian is both an Adjunct Professor and an Advisory Board member of the Graduate and Executive Education Aerospace & Defense program in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee.

Her experience includes working in senior operational operating roles, laying foundations for growth in mature organizations, as well as in start-up and fast-growth manufacturing, OEM and maintenance environments. She enjoys and has been particularly successful in building organizational capability and sustainability during restructurings and periods of rapid growth.

Lillian is a committed humanitarian leader for the Haitian charity Fondation Enfant Jesus. In her professional and social leadership roles, Lillian has been widely recognized as someone making a difference in society and in aerospace and engineering enterprises. As a result of her commitment and successes in these areas, she has been recognized and personally featured in industry leading magazines. While lending her experience by speaking on issues facing professionals in the industry she also works to pay it forward by mentoring students and employees in their professional growth.