Our Team

John Montgomery
Founder
John Montgomery is the Founder of Professional Flight Centre. Since its inception in 1986, John has worked tirelessly to grow the company into one of the country’s largest and most respected flight training institutes. With over 14,000 hours flight time, he is an Airline Transport Pilot License holder, Multi-IFR instructor and architect of the “Pro IFR System”, an efficient and highly effective way to learn IFR flying.
When John is not in the air, you will find him teaching one of the many seminars offered at Pro. These interactive and engaging seminars are renowned throughout the industry and his ability to simplify the material and make concepts easily understood is second to none. John is also an aviation writer and regular contributor to two national publications as well as the main author of our in-house training material.
John ensures that each student gets the highly personalized attention they need, be it in ground school, seminars, or in-flight training. A passionate aviator and enthusiastic individual, he extends a warm welcome to all students of Pro!
Management Team

Mark Stierli
Operations Manager

Kamy Fard
Chief Flight Instructor / Authorized Person

Lance D’cunha
Assistant Chief Flight Instructor

Claire Stierli
Finance Manager

Cyril Rodgers
Senior Class I Flight Instructor

Ellon Seel
Person Responsible for Maintenance (PRM)
Our Instructors

Cyril Rogers
Senior Class I Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR

Jim Scott
Class I Flight Instructor / Designated Flight Test Examiner (DFTE)

Lance D’cunha
Class I Flight Instructor / Cirrus TCI / IFR / VFR

Keishiro Hinuma
Class I Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR

Jordan L’Abbé
Class I Flight Instructor / VFR

Kamy Fard
Class II Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR / Seminar Instructor

Marco Campesato
Class II Flight Instructor / Seminar Instructor / Ground School Instructor / IFR / VFR

Sören Rix
Class II Flight Instructor / Seminar Instructor

Shane King
Class II Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR / Ground School Instructor

Ghaleb Alashwal
Class II Flight Instructor / VFR

Vincent Wong
Class II Flight Instructor / IFR / VFR

Adrian Bernstein
Multi-IFR Instructor

Kevin Kim
Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Jacky Lau
Class III Flight Instructor / VFR
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Edward Migliore
Class III Flight Instructor / Cirrus TCI

Nathan Wong
Class III Flight Instructor / Cirrus TCI / IFR / VFR

Anthony Cheang
Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Philipp Werner
Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Poul Go
Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Maninder Kharoud
Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Abdul Manarvi
Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Andy Lee
Class III Flight Instructor / VFR

Christopher Mortimer
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Justin Faester
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Sofian Zaher
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Alex Mckenzie
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Christopher Tai
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
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Amol Kaur
Class IV Flight Instructor / IFR

Jimmy Thandi
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR
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Stephen Little
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Frank Lo
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

James Moon
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Alex Kwon
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Ayesha Manarvi
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Ricardo Luis
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Kevin Albina
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Audry Coopman
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Tamar Rafeld
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Pritom Roy Joy
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Naoto Inoue
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Yazeed Bayyari
Class IV Flight Instructor / VFR

Leslee Probasco
Ground School Instructor
Dispatch Team

Audry Coopman
Head of Dispatch

Karan Sandha
Administrator

Ricardo Luis

Naoto Inoue

Gautham Santhosh

Tarun Bhasker
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CiCi Liao
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Martin Azurin
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Viella Rodrigues
Maintenance Team

Ellon Seel
Director of Maintenance
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Cameron R Tully
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Josef Winter
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Oscar Choi
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Kenji Watanabe
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Niloufer Dubash
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Nazeem Jalil