Helipartner

Philippe Lubrano

Senior partner / Founder of Helipartner

A natural born leader with more than 20 years strong experience in aviation industry and major know-how in setting up companies in Asia Pacific, Philippe’s progressive career at Eurocopter developed a cutting edge of International and multi-cultural management skills that stand behind Helipartner today.

Philippe was a founder and a successful CEO of Eurocopter Malaysia for 6 years from where he was later promoted to regional Eurocopter VP position for South East Asia. He used his experience and knowledge to team up with a group of senior engineers, pilots and managers, to form Helipartner, the company he is leading today.

Peter Perlowski

Senior partner / Managing Director of Helipartner Norway

Peter has 30 years of extensive engineering and managerial experience in the aviation industry. His early career began with working as a licensed engineer with various Scandinavian operators, such as Greenland Air, Lufttransport, and Braathens Helikopter.

Peter has since served as the Maintenance and HUMS Manager for Norsk Helikopter, and also was a technical quality advisor from 1994 until 1998. He later took on positions as Technical Manager and Quality Manager and worked as a consultant for various helicopter operators. In the years 2002 – 2006, Peter was deeply involved in setting up the first privately owned Thai offshore helicopter operation and later became Si-Chang Flying’s first Technical Director. Prior to starting up with Helipartner, he was a COO at Vectra Aviation Pvt Ltd in India. Peter has also carried out numerous projects for Eurocopter France. Today, Peter is holding a post of COO at Weststar Offshore Services in Malaysia.

Peter has extensive experience and remains licensed on the Sikorsky S 76C+, Sikorsky S 61N, Eurocopter AS 332 L/L1 and the Bell 205.

Captain Andrew Rice

Air Operations Manager

With over 33 years of flying experience, Andrew began flying helicopters while serving in the Royal Navy. He trained on the Gazelle and then flew the twin engine Wessex 5 in the Commando role. He later spent twenty years with Bristow Helicopters, mainly in Asia as an IFR, twin engine rated helicopter captain. He specialised in training local pilots to operate to the high standards which are required by oil companies both on and offshore. During this time he carried out several international helicopter ferry flights between South East Asia and the UK, Cambodia and Australia.
Before starting up with Helipartner, Andrew worked for Eurocopter Malaysia as a pilot and a Sales Manager for the Oil & Gas industry.

He carried out four delivery flights of AS332L2 helicopters from France to Malaysia and flew the SA330J on Tsunami relief operations in Indonesia.

Andrew has operated the Westland Gazelle and Wessex V; Eurocopter EC 120, SA330J Puma, AS332 L and L2 Super Puma; Bell 205, 206, 212 and 412, and the Sikorsky S61N. He has a total of more than 9,000 hours.

He has operated in the UK (North Sea), Malaysia, Indonesia, Falkland Islands, Antarctica, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Iraq, and Qatar. At this time Andrew is managing air operations for Weststar Offshore Services.

Jasmin Hazirovic

Business Development Manager

Jasmin Hazirovic worked at Eurocopter Malaysia from 2005 till 2008, initially in Business Development department doing contract management and later in Corporate Strategy as Business and Marketing Analyst.

In 2008 Jasmin left Eurocopter to become part of the team creating Helipartner. He has been involved in complete Helipartner setup process, including all structural and marketing development matters from the very beginning. Currently he manages all sales and contract related activities.

Jasmin holds MBA (Strategic Management Specialization) and B.Sc (honours) of Information Technology, both awarded in Malaysia