At Farnborough 2026 with the IMD Aerospace Practice
Silvia Flores and Jose Ruiz will attend Farnborough International Airshow 2026 alongside partners from the IMD International Search Group Aerospace Practice.
At Farnborough 2026 with the IMD Aerospace Practice
Silvia Flores and Jose Ruiz will attend the Farnborough International Airshow — held 20–24 July 2026 at the Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre in Hampshire, United Kingdom — alongside colleagues from the IMD International Search Group Aerospace Practice.
Farnborough remains one of the two defining moments of the global aerospace calendar. It is where OEMs, tier-ones, MROs, defense primes, and the new generation of advanced-air-mobility and space entrants convene to move programs forward — and where leadership hiring decisions with multi-year consequences quietly begin.
Our participation this year is a Practice one. Aerospace leadership is rarely a single-country problem: a plant in the Bajío or the Casablanca corridor answers to a European or North American parent; a technical vice president in Mexico is measured against certification bodies in the United States, Europe, and Asia; a program transfer across an OEM’s global footprint is decided by executives in three time zones at once. The IMD International Search Group Aerospace Practice was built for exactly that geometry — retained executive search delivered through independent, senior-led member firms that speak each region’s operating language and align around a shared method.
Silvia leads Alder Koten’s manufacturing, supply chain, and industrial sales practice in Mexico, with deep aerospace exposure across the Bajío and the northern corridors. Jose brings the broader IMD engagement, including cross-border programs where leadership hires span jurisdictions. Together, and with our IMD Aerospace Practice colleagues on the ground at Farnborough, we will be available for private conversations on the questions our clients are actually asking this year: what a technical vice president profile looks like when a program moves from a US or European plant to Mexico; how to build a bilingual engineering bench that certifying authorities on both sides of the Atlantic will accept; where the corridor differentials — Bajío, border, Guadalajara — sit today for aerospace program transfers; and how to structure a retained search when the reporting line is matrixed across two or three countries.
If you would like to arrange a conversation at Farnborough — on the show floor, at a chalet, or over a quiet coffee off-site — please contact Silvia and we will coordinate through the Practice.
We will publish a short set of field notes after the show. In the meantime, our aerospace positioning and the Practice’s approach to leadership hiring for the sector are laid out on our Aerospace Executive Search page.
By Silvia Flores, Managing Partner at Alder Koten, leading executive search for manufacturing, supply chain, and industrial sales in Mexico.