Jim Sokol has been named president of MRO Services for Timco Aviation Services, Greensboro, North Carolina. He was vice president-maintenance operations for Southwest Airlines.
Nick Hopkinson (see photo) has been appointed London-based director of cyber strategy in the U.K. for the Northrop Grumman Corp. He was head of global internal cyber security for the Computer Sciences Corp.
Eric Boelzner has been named senior director for supply chain and production control for Jet Aviation St. Louis. He was senior manager of cost control for the Dassault Falcon Jet Corp. facility in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Dave Bibby has become vice president-engineering of Aspen Avionics Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was chief engineer for Honeywell Aerospace’s Flight Management Systems Center of Excellence.
Andrew Arcuri has been named New York-based assistant manager of the rapid response team for Duncan Aviation. He was a field service engineer-senior technical support specialist for Honeywell Aerospace.
Marc Esposito has been named vice president-labor and values relations of JetBlue Airways. He was a partner in the Atlanta office of law firm Ford Harrison.
Brian Walker has been appointed manager of customer experience for the service operation and Jessica Rowden general manager of the Albuquerque, New Mexico, location of Cutter Aviation. Walker was manager of aircraft services for the -McKinney/Addison facility in Texas. Rowden was general manager of the Colorado Springs location.
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John F. Wharton has been appointed commanding general of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. He was commanding general of the U.S. Army Sustainment Command, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.
Fred Graffam has become interim CFO of DigitalGlobe, Longmont, Colorado. He succeeds Yancey L. Spruill, who has resigned. Graffam has been vice president-financial planning and analysis.
Richard Nevill has been appointed vice president of the Customer Services Div. of Aircelle, Le Havre, France. He was head of customer support and services for AgustaWestland Helicopters.
Janice Starzyk of International Launch Services has been named president of the Washington Space Business Roundtable. She succeeds Stephen Ganote of Avascent.
Leda Chong has become Beijing-based Asia-Pacific senior vice president for the Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. She was head of the Asia-Pacific region for the aerospace business group of parent company General Dynamics.
Charlotte R. Zilke has been named director of conventions for the Alexandria, Virginia-based Helicopter Association International. She was manager of convention services.
A version of this article appears in the September 15 issue of Aviation Week & Southwest Airlines updated its livery for the first time since 2001 as part of a multifaceted brand campaign. A single new logo—a stylized heart—now accompanies all internal and external communications, such as its “Rapid Rewards” frequent-flier program and its new booking website.
A version of this article appears in the September 15 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev gets his first look at solid ground after 169 days orbiting Earth on the International Space Station (ISS). Flight engineer Artemyev, Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA and Alexander Skvortsov of Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, also a flight engineer, landed safely in Kazakhstan Sept. 11 in their Soyuz TMA-12M capsule.
