Our Team

Ian started his career with British Airways in 1974 and then went on to join Virgin Atlantic as one of the first Managers in Engineering. He progressed to GM level, building his team to over 300 staff. In 2000 Ian joined an aircraft leasing company as Senior VP where he was heavily involved in projects throughout the world; this included a year commuting to Alabama, USA. In 2004 Ian moved to Barcelona and became a founder director of Vueling Airlines, now the second largest low-cost airline in Europe. With the sale to IAG he returned to the UK to take up the position of Managing Director at Line Up. In May 2011 Ian completed the acquisition of Line Up Ltd (trading as Line Up Aviation) and became Chief Executive. Ian’s leisure time is spent racing motorbikes, car track days and now gliding, basically, anything that gets the adrenaline going.

Matthew joined Lloyds Bank after graduating in 1984. He progressed rapidly through the ranks to become a Business Banking Manager. In 1999 Matthew joined Line Up as Financial Controller and in May 2011 was promoted to Financial Director and Company Secretary. He brings nearly 20 years’ experience in providing payroll solutions for the supply of personnel for management, maintenance and engineering positions around the world. He has worked heavily in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, USA, Canada and Singapore and has helped secure for Line Up either labour leasing licences or representative offices in those countries in support of the payroll solutions offered.

In his spare time, he is usually to be found out walking in the countryside or enjoying visits to castles and other historic places

Susan Pike, after attending Llandrillo Technical College in September 1989 and Graduating in July 1991, she went on to work for Bodelwyddan Castel for the Food and Beverage area organizing events. After moving to Italy in 1995, she continued to work in the food and Beverage area at The Green Motel, alongside with Teaching English for many different English schools in Italy. In 2010 -2016 she worked for Euro Lavoro teaching courses at all English levels. During this time she also started a collaboration with Line Up aviation LTD supporting us as a company in Italy. In 2017 “Line up aviation SRL” opened an office in Italy, she continues to support us and our Italian Clients. She is a forever Romantic and loves reading! Her hobbies are socializing and wine tasting.

Giuliano graduated in aerospace engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 1998. The following year he started working for an engineering company as a consultant in Agusta SpA (now Leonardo Helicopter) where he worked on simulation of external noise spreads by helicopters. From 2004 to 2010 always in Leonardo Helicopter he developed a Genetic Algorithm Code and use it to optimise performance of tiltrotor aircraft and helicopter inside aerodynamic department. In 2010 he has been involved in the preliminary design of aerodynamic performances of the “Project Zero” All-Electric Tilt-Rotor Technology Demonstrator by Agusta-Westland.
Starting from 2011 began to collaborate with Flight Mechanics department of Leonardo Helicopter developing, together with his colleague Lorenzo Frigerio, a software to evaluate helicopter and tiltrotor performance.
In 2017 he joined Line Up Aviation s.r.l. as Project Manager guiding an engineer team for Line Up Aviation working for the Flight Mechanics department of Leonardo Helicopter for different activities.
In 2021 he was appointed as Engineering Director.

He has also more than 20 years of experience in Machinery Directive field.
He spends his spare time playing the guitar, swimming, riding the bicycle and running.

Tiziana Zampieri has over 25 years of Administrative assistant experienced.
She Graduated in accounting in 1995. She worked for Logikstir for over 15 years bring over a large packet of administrative skills. Among the tasks she dealt with: bank management; administrative management (issuing of invoices, bills, verification of payments control and verification of registers);warehouse management (incoming outgoing, checking and arranging stocks issuing and creating coding, preparation and fulfillment of orders); customer and supplier management; personnel management (daily coordination of work, evaluation daily to improve timing).
She has been working for Line Up Aviation SRL since 2018 interfacing daily with the payroll and accountant office in Italy. Using a software for proper office management.
She spends her spare time watching Netflix, reading Books and meeting with her friends.

Alessandro Mereghetti is an enthusiastic aerospace engineer with experience in project management.
The work experience gained by working with international companies in the aerospace and electromechanical fields, such as Leonardo Elicotteri S.p.a, ENEL S.pa. and Lavazza S.p.a, has increased its ability to manage the customer and the team of collaborators.
Alessandro joined the Line Up Aviation team in 2019, making his managerial experience available to increase the network of customers and candidates in the Italian office of Line Up SRL.
In his free time he loves motorbike riding and obstacle races (OCR- Spartan Race).

Roberta Zoncoli , Graduated in 2021 in international relations for marketing. Roberta worked as a child minder alongside with working for a catering company in an elementary school. Roberta joined our team recently as an intern. In her free time, she loves going on long walks with her dog, travelling, horse riding and going to the gym.

We’re so excited to share our new team members, we haven’t quite got round to writing their bio yet. In the meantime, please check out their LinkedIn profile here: Giovanni Covino | LinkedIn

We’re so excited to share our new team members, we haven’t quite got round to writing their bio yet. In the meantime, please check out their LinkedIn profile here: Desiree Bellotti | LinkedIn

Ferruccio began his career during his studies period, working for about 5 years in a law firm dealing with insurance practices and out-of-court negotiations.
In 2008 he graduated in “Science in Legal Services for business consultant” and opened his own real estate brokerage agency as a legal representative with habilitation in the register of business agents.
In 2014 he began working with Leonardo’s Helicopter Division, becoming Vendor Register Manager, dealing with the qualification process of suppliers for ITA and UK in collaboration with the governance and purchasing division of the group.
He joined Line UP Aviation at the end of 2017 and moved to Sesto Calende facility, where he currently supports the ground stations dedicated to H/C flight planning and achieves the first certificate of “Instructional Techniques” at Leonardo Training Academy.
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Giulia Scopel, after attending Strategic Communication at IULM University and graduating in 2021, started a stage in a Bistrot to strengthen its brand reputation and brand positioning, by managing its social media accounts, by interacting with the different stakeholders and by creating the website.

She joined Line Up Aviation in April, in 2022 and started an internship dedicated to H/C flight planning and support at Leonardo, in Sesto Calende.

One of Giulia’s passion has always been sport; Giulia used to practice swimming, basketball, track and field, tennis and qwan ki do. Giulia is bold, she loves challenges, meeting up with friends and reading thriller books.

In 1998, linked with the company Nuova Vitervaccum SRL owner for all planning,  procurement, management and reporting activities Khadija gained experience in the Training management, commercial, administrative, Human Resources, Trading, Translation and Interpretation (Arabic, French, Italian and English), Customer support, Storage management and Procurement. Khadija joined the Line Up aviation team in 2019 supporting her services to Leonardo Helicopters Training Academy, detached in Viterbo Italian Army Aviation Base for Training Practices, Courses and Flights, Customer Service and Project Consultant for.

Kadija’s leisure time is spent in reading and visiting the Italian medieval villages

We’re so excited to share our new team members, we haven’t quite got round to writing their bio yet. In the meantime, please check out their LinkedIn profile here: Roberto Ghisellini | LinkedIn