Italian Immigrant: Aircraft Paint

Westjet Airlines Dept: In fact, the 6-year-old Italian immigrant to Canada grew up to run a fish business before launching a car wholesaling, retailing and brokering company, Maron Auto, which he converted to Autonet when the world went digital. He sold that business in 2002 after 26 years, and climbed aboard Premier Aviation Overhaul Centre Inc., a small Trois Rivieres-based aircraft MRO maintenance, repair and overhaul firm, according to Montreal Gazette. The firm had a few steady clients -notably WestJet Airlines Ltd. -but after buying out his aging partners in 2007, Di Bartolo began cold-calling other aircraft operators to drum up business and nothing predestined Ronnie Di Bartolo for aviation. He did not have a childhood yearning to be a pilot nor a lifelong passion only for things with wings. And perhaps because aerospace came late in life, the 62-year-old has fast-tracked big plans for the company that he joined as chief financial officer in May of 2003, five months after two of his friends had taken over a bankrupt aircraft paint shop. As reported in the news.
@t premier aviation, things with wings