Mike Guagenti
As CEO of LAUNCH, Mike is responsible for building and growing LAUNCH to honor the commitment to be the most innovative, customer-driven and solutions-based firm for technical workforce solutions. During his 25-year career, he has helped lead a diverse set of companies on strategy, operations and finance. Mike has developed relationships and provided aviation-related resources to MROs, airlines, leasing companies and engineering firms. Mike has a passion for entrepreneurship and a long history of leading his clients and employers to financial success.
Jean Rollo
As President and COO of LAUNCH, Jean oversees all of the day-to-day operations of the company, including recruitment, HR, marketing, compliance and finance, LAUNCH methodologies and office operations. She is a 20-year veteran of the technology industry. Jean’s extensive experience in executive management and ownership in the technology and aviation industries provides her with a unique capability to play a key role in LAUNCH.
Mike Reporto
As Chief Commerical Officer, LAUNCH has aligned all the company’s business under Mike Reporto. In his role, Reporto oversees all fulfillment and operations, including recruiting and client services, and is now responsible for LAUNCH TEAMS as well as the company’s joint venture with Delta Air Lines. His leadership creates consistency and cohesiveness across the company for both clients and employees, while his passion for service and execution ensure the teams work together to provide the highest quality of workforce solutions for our customers. He is a true changemaker at LAUNCH and has spearheaded the creation of several of the LAUNCH Academy programs aimed at creating a pipeline of mechanics for the future of aviation maintenance. In January of 2023, Reporto was named a Top 100 Staffing Leader to Watch in 2023 as part of the World Staffing Awards.
Throughout his tenure at LAUNCH, Reporto has served as President of Staffing and Senior Vice President of Recruiting Operations, where he oversaw huge advancements in LAUNCH’s service execution, as well as the recruiting and compliance efforts. Mike has provided direction on recruiter allocation, sourcing strategies, strategic development, as well as the growth, coaching, mentoring, and development of the sales and recruiting team. He also worked closely with sales to develop and manage the LAUNCH client services team.
In his past, Mike served as Senior Professional Account Recruiting Manager and Recruiting Lead at Aerotek Commercial and Manufacturing Services. The highlight of Mike’s five-year tenure at Aerotek was being named the company’s top producing Commercial and Manufacturing Recruiter in both 2014 and 2015, after winning back-to-back Million Dollar Club Contests. Mike was well on his way to his third contest win before originally agreeing to join LAUNCH to head its recruiting efforts.
Mike has a degree in Human Resource Management from Northern Illinois University. He is married and resides in Chicago, IL with his wife and daughter.
Marie-Claude Payant
As Chief Financial Officer, Marie-Claude has responsibility for the accounting, payroll, and internal control functions. In her role, Marie-Claude has oversight responsibility for the accounting function, ensuring regulatory compliance, setting and enforcing accounting policies, and timely and accurate financial reporting. As the leader of the finance team, she is helping pursue and actualize LAUNCH’s aggressive growth strategy.
Before joining LAUNCH, Marie-Claude ran her own financial services consulting firm where she served clients in the Chicago area. Prior to that, Marie-Claude spent 17 years in public accounting.
Marie-Claude has a degree in Accounting from the University of South Florida and earned an MBA from Florida State University. She is a Certified Public Accountant and lives in Chicago with her husband and three children.
Michael Lorenzini
As Chief Strategy Officer of LAUNCH, Michael is primarily responsible for the management and oversight of LAUNCH’s strategic growth, alliances and joint ventures. The depth of his industry knowledge, expertise in executing complex business strategies and his focus on collaboration, transformation and operational excellence is key in driving LAUNCH’s growth strategy and executing client services and revenue goals.
Michael’s career spans nearly 35 years where he has held various leadership positions across the aviation industry. He began with the airline industry at Midway Airlines as a technician and later joined America West Airlines where he served for ten years in various technical and leadership roles. Michael then joined United Airlines in 1998. During his sixteen years at United, Michael held various leadership roles in Technical Operations including base maintenance, supply chain, third party MRO business development and served as the company FAA Director of Maintenance and Accountable Manager where he was responsible for global line maintenance operations. Among his many accomplishments is leading the successful merger of the Maintenance and Engineering Divisions of United and Continental Airlines.
Michael’s career also spans into the rotor-wing industry where he was Vice President of Global Supplier Chain Operations for CHC/Heli-One Helicopters, the largest global helicopter operator servicing the oil and gas industry along with ambulatory and search and rescue services.
Prior to joining LAUNCH, Michael served as Senior Vice President at Gogo Inflight, responsible for leading engineering, certification, installations, operational and technical support, serving 38 global customers with industry-leading air to ground and satellite connectivity technology.
Michael earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Lewis University and also possesses an Airframe and Powerplant & Pilots License along with several aviation technical ratings.
John Smith
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