Derk-Jan van Heerden

✈♻👌 Can we recycle aircraft(materials) better? Let’s do it! - Founder & Board Member @ Aethos | Aviation Expert | Founder & Former CEO @ AELS | Former Board Member & President @ AFRA

The Randstad, Netherlands

About

Specialties: aircraft transactions, aircraft component trading, aerospace materials recycling, general management

Experience

  • Founder & Board Member at Aethos
    Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • AELS (18 yrs)
    • Founder
      Oct 2023 - Dec 2023 · 3 mos

    • CEO and Founder
      Jan 2006 - Sep 2023 · 17 yrs 9 mos

      AELS is a company that develops end-of-life strategies and executes the resulting solution for aircraft owners all over the world.

  • Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA) (Headquarters, Washington DC)
    • President
      Jun 2015 - Jul 2019 · 4 yrs 2 mos

      President of the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA). AFRA is recognised as the leading global industry association dedicated to pursuing and promoting environmental best practice, regulatory excellence and sustainable developments in aircraft disassembly, as well as the salvaging and recycling of aircraft parts and materials.

    • Vice-President
      Sep 2013 - Jun 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Vice-President of the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA)AFRA is recognised as the leading global industry association dedicated to pursuing and promoting environmental best practice, regulatory excellence and sustainable developments in aircraft disassembly, as well as the salvaging and recycling of aircraft parts and materials.

    • Board Member
      Jul 2010 - Sep 2013 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      Member of the Board of Directors of the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA). AFRA is recognised as the leading global industry association dedicated to pursuing and promoting environmental best practice, regulatory excellence and sustainable developments in aircraft disassembly, as well as the salvaging and recycling of aircraft parts and materials.

  • Project Manager at KLM Engineering & Maintenance
    Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 · 5 mos

    Project managing disassembly of a Boeing 747 aircraft.