Brian M. Campbell, Ph.D., M.B.A.

President
Campbell Aviation Consultants LLC

Brian M. Campbell, Ph.D., M.B.A., has spent 40 years in the commercial aviation industry. For 35 years, he has served as a consultant to airlines, airports, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and government regulatory agencies. Throughout his consulting career, he focused on strategic planning, economic studies and analyses, regulatory issues and business planning for his clients. Campbell has testified in more than 75 adversarial cases before administrative courts, district courts and government committees and tribunals in the U.S., Canada and the European Union. For six years at various times during his career, Campbell was a co-founder and senior executive of three start-up airlines, beginning with Midway Airlines Inc. in the late 1970s. In his capacity as a consultant, he has assisted other start-ups in the preparation of market studies and business plans.

Campbell has founded two aviation consulting firms, and, since he moved to Charlottesville in 2003, he has advised several start-ups spun out of the University of Virginia in the areas of medical technologies and education products. He has invested in five U.Va.-sponsored start-ups, and he serves as interim chief financial officer and member of the board of directors for three of them. He has managed angel financings for two of the U.Va. start-ups: HemoShear LLC ($5 million) and Dynamic Literacy LLC ($1.25 million). Campbell serves on the U.Va. Heart and Vascular Center Advisory Board and has been involved in fund-raising activities for the U.Va. Cancer Center.

Campbell holds a Ph.D. degree in business administration from Columbia University, an M.B.A. degree from the University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University. During his academic life, he taught accounting and marketing courses to undergraduate students.