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 Steve Varsano 

Steven Mark Varsano (born 30 July 1956) is a New York, USA born businessman, and the founder of The Jet Business, the first corporate aviation showroom, on Park Lane, London.

Varsano has been involved with a number of aeronautical companies during his 43-year career in aviation including the set up of Atlantis 2000 Group Inc. and The Jet Business.

Early Life

Varsano was boring on 30 July 1956 in New York, United States of America. Varsano spent his childhood in Hackensack, N.J. and started working when he was just 7 years old, sweeping floors in a beauty parlour. A young Varsano fell in love with flying at aged just 14. His first encounter at flying was an experience that led him to a 43-year career in aviation and one that has seen him build a dynamic business empire in the aviation industry. Varsano spent his early teenage years saving up for flying lessons in New Jersey.

Exhilarated by a deal, in Varsano's early career in aircraft sales, during a deal with a Venezuelan client, Varsano flew back on the plane he'd just sold for $2.3 million heading to Miami, when the client's business associates pulled a pistol on him and demanded their cut. Undeterred, Varsano continued in sales for 15 years.

Early career
Varsano’s avi­a­tion ca­reer began in 1975 with his first job as a stu­dent in­tern as an air­port man­ager at St Pe­ters­burg’s Clear­wa­ter In­ter­na­tional Air­port, Florida. After suc­cess­fully grad­u­at­ing from Em­bry-Rid­dle Aero­nau­ti­cal Uni­ver­sity with a de­gree in Aero­nau­ti­cal Stud­ies in 1977 and qual­i­fy­ing with a sin­gle and mul­ti­ple-en­gine com­mer­cial in­stru­ment-rated pilot com­mer­cial li­cense, Steve Varsano had changed his mind about be­com­ing a pro­fes­sional pilot. In­stead, he wanted a man­age­r­ial role in gen­eral avi­a­tion.

In 1977, he flew to Wash­ing­ton, D.C. to work at the Amer­i­can As­so­ci­a­tion of Air­port Ex­ec­u­tives and later be­came an as­sis­tant to the pres­i­dent of the Gen­eral Avi­a­tion Man­u­fac­tur­ers As­so­ci­a­tion where he was the staff li­ai­son with GAMA's air­port leg­is­la­tion com­mit­tee and the in­dus­try sta­tis­ti­cal/fore­cast­ing com­mit­tee. Giv­ing Varsano a real in­sight into the avi­a­tion in­dus­try and in­spir­ing his pas­sion, he "wanted a po­si­tion where I could track my input and mea­sure my suc­cess." Steve be­came ac­quainted with an air­plane bro­ker who in­ter­ested him in air­craft sales.

The 1980s saw Varsano ex­plore air­craft sales by join­ing U.S. Air­craft Sales in their re­search de­part­ment, track­ing and qual­i­fy­ing sales leads. He quickly moved into di­rect sales, sell­ing only two air­craft in his first year, but by his sec­ond he had sold eleven and soon was trav­el­ling in­ter­na­tion­ally on buy­ing and sell­ing trips. Since the start or his ca­reer, Varsano has bought, sold and leased over 300 air­craft worth over $4 bil­lion.

In 1983, Varsano joined CMI Air­craft Cor­po­ra­tion to man­age their East Coast air­craft sales and leas­ing op­er­a­tions. Varsano was pro­moted to Na­tional Re­mar­ket­ing Man­ager and CMI's port­fo­lio com­prised an $80 mil­lion jet fleet. Fa­mously in his two-page spread in the De­cem­ber 1984 issue of Fly­ing Mag­a­zine, Varsano said "This is the kind of job where I hate to see the week­end come. The banks are closed...​nobody's doing business...​and I have to wait until Mon­day to sell that airplane."

In 1987, Varsano left bro­ker­ing to work for Nel­son Peltz's Tri­an­gle In­dus­tries; a jet cus­tomer of his. He began as Pres­i­dent of Tri­an­gle Air­craft Ser­vices, man­ag­ing the com­pany's air­craft. He then moved onto a va­ri­ety of roles in­clud­ing Vice Pres­i­dent of CJI In­dus­tries and Vice Pres­i­dent of Avery Coal. He gained in­ter­na­tional ex­po­sure as Pres­i­dent of the In­ter­na­tional di­vi­sion of Long John Sil­ver's and A&W Restau­rants. Varsano rose to Se­nior Vice Pres­i­dent and Spe­cial As­sis­tant to the Pres­i­dent at Tri­an­gle In­dus­tries.

Businesses
In 1993 Varsano set up At­lantis 2000 Group Inc. to analyse, source and place in­vest­ments for pri­vate and pub­lic trans­ac­tions. He ad­vised com­pa­nies in­clud­ing Sagit­tar­ius Ac­qui­si­tions II, York­shire Global Restau­rants, Inc., Tri­arc Com­pa­nies, Inc., Group Ac­timo, Pa­cific Cap­i­tal Group, Saresco, Grotech Cap­i­tal and Cen­tre part­ners. Varsano, dur­ing this pe­riod, also held po­si­tions in the cater­ing and real es­tate in­dus­tries. In 2003 he be­came the Se­nior Di­rec­tor for busi­ness de­vel­op­ment and man­ag­ing global brand ex­pan­sions of Yum Restau­rants In­ter­na­tional, own­ers of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Dur­ing this time he ne­go­ti­ated sig­nif­i­cant fran­chise deals in Rus­sia, Ukraine and Cen­tral and East­ern Eu­rope.

In 2006 he be­came a fi­nan­cial bro­ker at Cap­pello Group.

In Jan­u­ary 2012 Varsano launched The Jet Busi­ness, the world's first cor­po­rate avi­a­tion show­room, in Lon­don. The new con­cept show­room opened in 2012 at Hyde Park Cor­ner, based in the cen­tre of the UK cap­i­tal's most ex­clu­sive neigh­bour­hoods, Bel­gravia, Knights­bridge and May­fair. The show­room con­tains a full-size mock-up of an Air­bus ACJ319 cabin that fills the win­dow and life-size schemat­ics of a range of cor­po­rate jets can be viewed on a 26 ft video wall.

Varsano re­cently re-opened the show­room in its new lo­ca­tion on Park Lane in Oc­to­ber 2017.

Other activities
Varsano served on the Board of Di­rec­tors of XOJET from 2012 to 2015