Mansour Ojjeh, head of the privately owned TAG Group, said he had stepped off an airplane less than a half an hour before he sat down in the conference room of TAG's impressive EBACE chalet to talk to AIN. The chalet (Stand 7020), as AIN's EBACE Convention News reported yesterday, contains a spectacular collection of original art presented by Opera Gallery in Geneva, in association with Artliner, a company owned by Ojjeh's niece, Tattiana Ojjeh.
While aviation is only part of TAG Group's businesses, which include a hotel (the Aviator in Farnborough, UK, commercial real estate, motorsport [McClaren Group] and agriculture), Ojjeh said he stays in touch with TAG Aviation Holding's CEO Robert Wells and others in management "almost on a daily basis. I keep a close eye on our aviation business," he said, "because it is my creation, my idea. It has the name of TAG on it, which is a symbol of excellence and success. We have a passion for aviation, which began when Aziz [Ojjeh's brother] became interested in it."
