TEAM OZONE
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Everyone at Ozone continues to be driven by our passion for flying, our love of adventure and our quest to see
Ozone’s paraglider development create better, safer and more versatile paragliders.
The design team consists of David Dagault, Luc Armant, Fred Pieri, Russell Ogden, Honorin Hamard and
Sam Jobard. Dav started flying when he was 12 years old and has accumulated a wealth of experience in
competition flying, XC and paraglider design. Luc, a dedicated XC and competition addict has a background
in naval architecture. Fred, our resident geek is a mathematician, mechanical engineer and vol Biv specialist.
Russ is a competition pilot and test pilot with 1000s of hours testing experience. World and European champion
Honorin is a naturally talented pilot who has been flying since he was 13 years old. Sam designs and develops
our range of harnesses, he has a great deal of experience both flying paragliders and designing harnesses.
Between them, they bring a wealth of knowledge, ideas and experience and work closely together in the design,
development and testing process.
Mike Cavanagh is the boss and multiple winner of the UK XC league, when not out flying he generally keeps
control of the mayhem. He is helped by Jean Christophe Skiera (JC) who manages our distribution network and
the product range. Promotion and marketing are co-ordinated by BASE jumping legend Matt Gerdes.
Back in the office Karine Marconi, Chloe Vila and Isabelle Martinez run the show. These wonderful ladies look
after the ordering system, the dealers, the design team and the general day to day running of the company -
without them it would be chaos.
Our own manufacturing facility in Vietnam is headed up by Dr Dave Pilkington who works relentlessly
manufacturing gliders and producing prototypes as well as researching materials and manufacturing processes
for our future products. He is backed up by a superb team managed by Khanh and Phong with over 1000
production staff.
