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 create better, safer and higher performing 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.
The Ozone speed flying specialists offer a wealth of experience and talent with the likes of Rob Whittall,
Matt Gerdes and Cade Palmer who ensure that each new model has a thorough test and development
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 coordinated 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 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.