Management Team
George Abi Zeid
President & CEO
George Abi Zeid has led multiple ventures from technology to real estate. As an investor, operator and entrepreneur, Mr. Abi Zeid has founded multiple successful telecommunication companies. In 1980, Swift Global Communications was established targeting primarily financial service and shipping companies. In 1993, Swift Global was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies of the year. Mr. Abi Zeid acted as Founder, President and CEO of Swift Global until 1994, when it was sold to Xpedite Systems, Inc. {NASDQ:PGI}. Mr. Abi Zeid remained with Xpedite as one of largest individual share holders and President of Xpedite International.
In 2001, Mr. Abi Zeid established Swift Telecommunications, Inc. as Sole proprietor and CEO. Swift Telecommunications acquired EasyLink from AT&T for $60 million and later merged the business with Mail.com establishing EasyLink Services Inc. {NASDAQ:ESIC}. Easylink’s revenues during that period were $138 million. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Abi Zeid served as the President of the International Division, Member of the Board, Executive Vice President, and the largest individual shareholder.
In 1992 GAZ Realty Inc., was established by Mr. Abi Zeid as a real estate investment and developer/operator of super stations. In 2006, Mr. Abi Zeid assumed full responsibilities of GAZ Realty Inc. In 2007, Mr. Abi Zeid formed Airport Plazas, LLC., a company fully dedicated to establishing plazas at airports around the country. The average plaza includes the sale of gasoline, a convenience store, car wash, light auto repair, towing, food court and some locations will feature a Pet Motel.
Jubran Charles Jubran
CFO and Sr. Vice President of Finance
Mr. Jubran has over thirty years of financial and accounting experience. Having served in varying roles for leading national firms such as Sony, Price Waterhouse and Arthur Young & Company, Jubran brings a structured discipline to the financial and accounting activities of Airport Plazas. Additionally, Mr. Jubran has played a key role in various corporate acquisitions and private placement equity investments. Mr. Jubran holds an MBA in Accounting and Finance from Adelphi University and currently oversees all financially related activities for Airport Plazas.
Stefano Pascucci
Executive Vice President - Business Development
Mr. Pascucci heads up the business development of Airport Plazas. The responsibility includes the development of new sites across the country, tenant and airport contract negotiations, as well as overall site design input. Mr. Pascucci is typically the lead person for preparing, submitting and presenting projects to the various airport authorities.
Prior to working for Airport Plazas Mr. Pascucci spent a number of years as a commercial broker working with leading national retail brands. Prior to venturing into the real-estate world Mr. Pascucci held a number of senior executive positions with large multi-national and publically traded companies. Throughout his career Mr. Pascucci has visited more than 80 countries around the globe and speaks five languages.
Alan Abizeid
Vice President - Administration
Prior to joining Airport Plazas, Alan held a number of responsibilities including property management, tenant relations, supplier contract review, and lease negotiations. In his role as VP of Administration, Alan coordinates a broad range of responsibilities throughout the organization by drawing on his past experience. Alan establishes and maintains key business processes that insure standardization across all locations. Specifically, roles include property management, reporting, projections, vendor and tenant contract negotiations and site development. Alan graduated with a Bachelor’s in Business Management from the University of Scranton.
Brian Noble
Vice President - Public Relations & Marketing
Mr. Noble is responsible for all Marketing and Public Relations for Airport Plazas. This includes both print and online marketing/advertising as well as all public relations matters. In addition, Mr. Noble acts as Webmaster of the corporate website.
For over 12 years, Mr. Noble has been in I.T. in various roles from Marketing and Project Management to Business Analyst. Mr. Noble graduated from The Ohio State University with a B.A. in Communications and is also PMP (Project Management Professional) certified.
Georges W. Abou Zeid
Vice President - Operations
Georges has over a decade of experience in service plaza construction and management. Prior to joining Airport Plazas, he managed ARCO AM/PM plazas throughout California. Recently, Georges took over operational responsibility for a number of GAZ Realty locations throughout the NY metro area. Georges has a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from California State University of Fullerton.
Georges is responsible for all aspects of launching new airport locations inclusive of hiring, training, project oversight and maintaining P&L targets across multiple outlets.