Joshua Hebert, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Anthony Tivnan, President
Amy Lampert, Director
Robert Friedman, Advisory Board Member
Kirby Shimko, Chief Strategy Officer
Doug Dvorak, Director
Thomas Harrison, Board of Directors

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Former Wall Street executive and Magellan Jets founder, Joshua Hebert, brings the financial savvy of the world’s trading center to the company he launched in September 2008.

In Magellan Jets, Joshua realized his dream of melding his passion for aviation with the knowledge and expertise in financial relations he gleaned from serving at the prestigious firms of Shearson Lehman, Sands Brothers and Paine Webber.

When Joshua founded the company he was already an experienced business aviation manager.

In 2000, he helped build Charter Auction, a private jet company. As sales and marketing director, he led the sales team in 2001 by increasing the company’s growth an astounding 600 percent. The following year, Joshua became managing partner and executive vice president, where he managed all of Charter Auction's sales, concierge, aircraft membership and fulfillment departments.

Joshua also oversaw the company’s private jet membership program and on-demand charter sales, that later became Jets.com. In his last year at the company, he brokered an exclusive marketing deal with the New England Patriots.

Prior to making his mark at Charter Auction, Joshua applied his sales magic at The Boston Business Journal, a division of American City Business Journals, Inc., a Conde Nast company. As the Journal’s sales manager in 1997, he boosted sales by an incredible 800 percent margin and earned the company its highest sales award for the next three years.

In his rare down time, Joshua serves on several board of directors including The Heath Evans Foundation, Iowngreen.com and, previously, Jets.com. He’s chairman of the board at Magellan Jets.

Anthony Tivan’s acclaim as a mover and shaker in the business aviation world was already major news before becoming president and co-owner of Magellan Jets.

Anthony made his mark as a mentor, trainer and manager at Jets.com where he eventually became one of the company’s top-tier leaders. From the start, in 2002, he was a consistent top sales producer: He regularly led his sales team by more than 115 percent in revenues!

Because of his strong sense of leadership and ability to train and motivate others, Anthony was asked to teach the successful techniques that helped jump start his career. That job led him to becoming the company’s vice president in 2006 and its executive vice president in 2008.

As executive vice president, he worked with the company’s marketing and concierge divisions to burnish Jet.com’s brand by cultivating strong customer and vendor relationships. He also managed the retail sales department and Jets.com’s sales teams in Quincy, Mass. and New York City.

Anthony completed pilot ground school at Alpha One Flight School in Plymouth, Mass. He serves on the board of directors at Magellan Jets and Iowngreen.com.

Financial expert, author and educator, Amy Lampert brings more than 25 years of business expertise to Magellan Jets.

Her positions in sales and sales management to the directorships of human resources and organizational development with Merrill Lynch, UBS, Mellon Bank and HSBC are among Amy’s career highlights. As principal in Organizational Learning, Amy provides advice to companies and their executives on how to restructure and manage for optimum results while simultaneously offering rewards to employees and their clients.

Amy has written extensively as a consumer advocate for investors and has consulted internationally on business development strategies for financial services companies. In 1998, Amy founded Women’s Financial Network and is a principal in WomensWorth (www.womensworth.com), a firm she founded to demystify the world of money through education and mentoring.

Amy holds a masters degree and a masters in education from Tufts University and has been a guest lecturer at New York University’s Stern School of Business on the design and implementation of performance management systems.

She belongs to The A. K. Rice Institute's Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems, the Human Resources Council and is an arbitrator for FINRA (formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers). She’s a graduate of the Organizational Development and Consultation Program at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, New York; and a graduate of the Securities Industry Institute at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Amy is a trustee of the Park School in Brookline, Mass, serves on the Brookline Commission for Women and is a director of Bedside Advocates and The Life Planning Network.

Robert Friedman is the CEO of I. Friedman & Son, an industry leader in manufacturing and distributing diamonds and other precious stones. The company distributes throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia and mainly sells to celebrities, pro-athletes and Fortune 500 CEOs. Robert represents the family’s third generation of diamond experts and jewelers. I. Friedman & Son is also heavily invested in commercial and residential real estate in Manhattan and Long Island.

Mr. Friedman, who is also a pilot, attended American University. He collects rare automobiles and enjoys boating.

International financial authority Kirby Shimko is the chief strategy officer at Magellan Jets. Kirby amassed extensive experience managing casework in financial services, technology, media and telecommunications at Bain and Company's Boston office. During his tenure at Bain that began in 2006, Kirby worked in Johannesburg, London and San Francisco, providing growth strategies for private equity firms, commercial lenders and hedge funds and directed turnarounds in telecommunications.

Before joining Bain, Kirby was a private equity, telecommunications and tourism consultant in the U.S., the Middle East and Africa. He also held front-line positions in manufacturing, business development, sales and marketing. In 2000, Kirby started the Neighborhood Business Initiative, which helps inner city businesses and start ups grow and prosper.

Kirby earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a masters in engineering management from Northwestern University. He also holds a B.S. in chemical engineering. Outside of work, Kirby enjoys scuba diving, travel and photography.

Before becoming a director at Magellan Jets, Doug Dvorak built a dynamic career in wealth management.

After earning a degree in economics from Rollins College, where he attended on a baseball scholarship, Doug joined Raymond James in 1990 in Fort Myers, Florida. From the start, he set the firm’s first-year production record and became Rookie of the Year. Soon, Doug was promoted to manage the Naples office, becoming the youngest branch manager in the company’s history.

In 1996, Doug joined Smith Barney. In just two years, Doug tripled the size of the Naples sales team and doubled revenues. By 1998, Doug was managing the firm’s two offices in Charlotte, North Carolina. Within two years, he expanded Smith Barney’s presence in the Charlotte area to five offices.

In 2001, Merrill Lynch hired Doug as senior vice president and sales manager for the Florida region, where he led the wealth management business in Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Jacksonville and Orlando. In 2003, Doug joined Bank of America as senior vice president and regional sales director. There, he led private banking sales teams covering Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Virginia. The business generated $500 million in revenue and specialized in clients with a minimum net worth of $5 million.

In 2006, Doug became the senior advisor for Bank of America’s Family Wealth Advisor’s unit in the Southern United States, where he focused on serving clients with a net worth greater than $50 million.

Doug retired in October of 2007 to pursue his dream of playing professional golf. Doug qualified for his first PGA tour in May of 2008 at the AT&T Classic in Atlanta. Doug and his family live in Windermere, Florida, where he’s a member of the Isleworth Country Club.

Additionally, Doug serves on the Board for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Golf Ministry.

Doug continues to serve as a consultant to several Wall Street firms.

Thomas Harrison is chairman and chief executive officer of Diversified Agency Services, a marketing and communications company. It specializes in public relations, crisis management, branding, sales promotion, customer relationship management and health care advertising.

A division of the Omnicom Group, Diversified has more than 5,000 worldwide clients and annual revenues of almost $5 billion.

Under Thomas’ watch, Diversified has more than quadrupled in size and now accounts for almost 60 percent Omnicom’s revenues.

Thomas’ multi-faceted career brought him to Omnicom in 1992, when the firm he co-founded, Harrison & Star Business Group, the most successful and rapidly growing agency in the health care industry at the time, was acquired.

With an advanced degree in cell biology and physiology, Thomas began his career at Pfizer Laboratories as a sales representative and left Pfizer as marketing director. He then joined a mid-sized health care advertising agency for six years before starting his own company, The Harrison & Star Business Group. His company started a health care advertising agency, a medical education company, a direct-to-consumer health care company and a medical PR group and acquired a managed care consultancy.

Thomas serves on a number of prestigious boards. They include Montefiore Hospital, New York Academy of Medicine, New York chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, ePocrates, a health care information company, The Morgans Hotel Group, The Lymphoma Research Foundation and several marketing services companies.

He was president of a local Westchester County school board and founder of an education foundation in that Westchester school district. He has served as co-chairman of the New York chapter of the U.S. Olympic Committee, raising substantial funds to support U.S. Olympic athletes

Thomas frequently speaks at business forums and universities on entrepreneurialism and business strategies. In 2006, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from West Virginia University and an honorary doctorate in 2007. He was keynote speaker at The McGraw Hill Medical Publishers Annual Awards program.

Harrison is the author of the recently published book INSTINCT Tapping Your Entrepreneurial DNA to Achieve Your Business Goals.