Larry Bunce complements the Aerospace BizDev team, by mentoring and assisting clients to reach their full business potential. He is a team builder with a focus on success through matching resources to requirements and through complete understanding of client needs. 

Larry brings over 35 years of military and corporate aerospace experience to the Aerospace BizDev team. He has held senior positions managing and directing interdisciplinary engineering teams in Engineering Project Management, Operations Management, Aircraft Maintenance, Flight Test, Reliability/Maintainability Analysis and Integrated Logistics Support.

With experience on both Aerospace and Naval procurement programs, Larry has been involved in the successful capture of DND and DoD maintenance and acquisition contracts.  With specialties in project management and integrated logistics support, he can lead or provide senior level support to proposal teams, working through the entire process from initial capture planning to final proposal delivery, as well as assisting in the initial program start-up following contract award.

Throughout a varied military career spanning 28 years, Larry held senior management positions at National Defence Headquarters undertaking the procurement of aircraft and support equipment and services.  In addition, he held senior officer positions in aircraft flight test and maintenance development, working with interdisciplinary engineering teams, in a demanding multi-project work environment. Since leaving the military, Larry has worked for several aerospace companies including SPAR Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, IMP Aerospace, AcroHelipro Global Services, L-3 Communications, Gladstone Aerospace and Calian. This career path has allowed him to gain extensive operations and project management experience including the implementation of innovative Performance Based Contracts and providing consultant services to $B+ procurement initiatives.

Larry has an engineering degree from the Royal Military College of Canada and a Masters of Science in Mechanical (Reliability) Engineering from the University of Arizona. He is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario and the Society of Reliability Engineers (Ottawa Chapter). As part of a continuing professional development program, he has also completed the Executive Marketing Program at Queen’s University School of Business and the Performance Based Contracting Course given by the Defense Acquisition University (Washington D.C.).

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Mike Druet brings over 25 years of experience in aerospace business development, general and program management to the Aerospace BizDev team.  He has held senior business development and general management positions with a number of major aerospace and defense companies and has founded, grown and eventually sold a highly successful engine and component MRO company.  In each position Mike has held he has successfully developed and grown profitable new business.

Mike has extensive experience and success with government customers and their procurement programs including the Canadian DND, US DOD, and various US public service organizations including state, county and police departments.  He also has broad experience developing business with international government and military customers in South America, Asia, Australia and the Middle East.  In addition, he has developed business with major civil helicopter and airline customers in North America and Internationally.

Mike has held executive level positions with CHC Helicopter Corp as Sr. VP, Business Development & Marketing of its Heli-One business, and with AcroHelipro Global Services as Executive Vice President, and President of its Helipro Division.  Prior to that, he co-founded and co-managed Helipro Component Services which grew rapidly and was eventually acquired by ACRO Aerospace.  In 1999 Mike and his partner, Jim Campbell, were awarded the Pacific Region “Entrepreneur of the Year” in the Emerging Business category, for their success with Helipro Component Services.

Prior to that Mike was the Director of Marketing for L-3 Communications Spar Aerospace Limited where he oversaw the profitable growth and diversification of their Aviation Services business from an “overhaul shop” to a comprehensive Maintenance Services business.

Prior to that Mike worked for Canadian Helicopters (now CHC Helicopters) initially as a pilot, logging 4500 hours in international and domestic operations, then as an operations supervisor, marketing manager and eventually joining their Engineering Support Division to head up the new Technical Sales Department, selling R&O services to “third party” helicopter operators.  This business grew tremendously over the next 5 years and was eventually spun off to become ACRO Aerospace.

Mike has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia and has attended numerous courses and seminars on sales, marketing and general management.