Standard Aero

Verna Taylor is the Senior Vice-President of Operations, at Standard Aero in Manitoba, one of Canada's leading suppliers of services to the global aerospace industry. Ms. Taylor says the company tries to balance the needs of employees, customers and shareholders in everything they do, ensuring that all projects are consistent with long term goals. "We work to develop new solutions that truly add value for our customers, and we capture intellectual property in our solutions, so it can be leveraged across products and offered to our global customer base".

Standard Aero provides comprehensive maintenance services on a wide range of gas turbine engines for governments, regional airlines, business aircraft, helicopters, and industrial customers, and has 1,200 employees in Winnipeg, out of 2,500 total employees in six different countries.