Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Moses Koyabe Joins Ideal as Dierctor of Test Services Business Development

Ideal Aerosmith, Inc. is pleased to announce that Moses Koyabe has joined the Ideal Aerosmith team as Director of Test Services Business Development. Moses brings over 20 years of experience in Europe and more recently in North America with EADS TEST & SERVICES, a business unit of EADS.

Moses Koyabe
As a seasoned business development and sales professional, Moses possesses a rare blend of creative and technical strengths. He has been instrumental in implementing innovative customer-focused programs that add value and strengthen business relationships.

When he accepted the position, Moses stated, "Ideal Aerosmith is not only successful, it is an exceptional company. Under Lonnie Rogers’ leadership, Ideal has attracted and managed to sustain a team of very talented and dedicated professionals. I look forward to proudly upholding and enhancing the strong customer relationships built on Ideal’s skilled team and their focused test solutions and services."

Darren Stinson, Ideal’s Senior Vice President of Test Services stated “We are very pleased that Moses has chosen to join the Ideal team. His vast amount of test industry experience and his proven ability to solve the complex challenges that our customers often face will play a key role in Ideal’s growth.”

At Moses’ previous position as Director of International Business, he spearheaded the formation of an international alliance network with strategic US partners. From 2000 to 2003, Moses oversaw a team of managers responsible for pre-sale and post-sale account management for clients that included many airline companies, OEM avionics manufacturers, maintenance and European military organizations.

Prior to 2000, Moses held various project management roles with Aerospatiale, where he successfully introduced new automated test-related products to market. This included one of the most popular commercial avionics ATE Systems to date, with over 250 systems in operation since
1993.

Moses holds a Master of Aeronautical Engineering degree from the French Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Universite de Nice in France. He is fluent in French, as well as Swahili. He is an active participant in industry activities, including numerous ARINC working groups. Moses lives in the Phoenix area with his wife and 3 children and will be based in Ideal Aerosmith's Phoenix office.


Ideal Aerosmith, Inc. is a leading supplier of aerospace test equipment along with precision inertial guidance test systems, rotational rate tables & centrifuges, and high- dynamic flight test tables. Ideal has provided cutting-edge testing solutions to many of the major aerospace manufacturers for more than 60 years. The company is headquartered in East Grand Forks, MN, and maintains offices in Phoenix, AZ; Pittsburgh, PA; and Menlo Park, CA.