Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Kerry Lynch

Directional Aviation Capital principal Kenneth Ricci, working with Resilience Capital Partners co-CEO Steven Rosen, appears poised to continue on the acquisition trail with the creation of Zanite Acquisition, a “blank check,” or special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), that is listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market and beginning to trade today with an initial public offering priced at $200 million.

 


The SPAC was formed for the purpose of “effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses,” the company said, adding that it plans to focus on aviation, aerospace and defense, urban mobility, and emerging technologies industries.

 


Zanite is offering 20 million units at $10 per one share of Class A common stock and one-half of one redeemable warrant.

 


Ricci has built one of the largest business aviation entities worldwide through the acquisitions of companies such as Flexjet and Sentient Jet with a reach into charter, fractional ownership, MRO, and brokerage, among other interests. Rosen, meanwhile, co-founded Resilience Capital Partners in 2001 after managing a number of transactions at Merrill Lynch. The firm has specialized in investments of companies with revenues between $25 million and $250 million in a range of industries, including aviation and aerospace.

Ricci, Rosen Take New 'Blank Check' Firm Public

Kenneth Ricci's and Steven Rosen's special purpose acquisition company, Zanite Acquitision, is going public on Tuesday with an IPO priced at $200 million.

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