Chief Financial Officer
Gary joined Aquila Air Capital as Chief Financial Officer in May 2025 to lead its financial organization and oversee all aspects of the company’s corporate development, partnerships, strategic financing initiatives, and capital markets activity. Gary brings decades of experience, perspective, and deep industry relationships solidified at Capitola Partners and Vx Capital Partners as an investor, lessor, asset manager, and strategic advisor. At Capitola Partners, which he founded, he executed major multi-year engagements with a global lessor, an asset trading and management company, two major U.S.-based family offices, and an Ireland-based corporate services provider. Prior to Capitola Partners, Gary was part of the founding team at Vx Capital Partners, sourcing and structuring equity and debt capital to support portfolio transactions, the VXF investment fund, and the CARGO 2018-1 ABS, while leading all finance, treasury, administration and portfolio management functions. Prior to that, he held positions at GATX Capital, Merrill Lynch, and the California Public Employees Retirement System, and appointments in both the Governor’s Office and U.S. Senate. Gary serves as an Independent Director for two major ABS issuances and was an adjunct lecturer at St. Mary’s College and UC Davis Graduate School of Management. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of California Los Angeles and an M.B.A. degree from the University of California Davis.