Meridian, a private aviation company headquartered at Teterboro (N.J.) Airport, has named Greg Johnson as director of business development. His responsibilities will include expanding the company’s West Coast aircraft-management business and overseeing development of an FBO to be built at Hayward Executive Airport in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Johnson, who has spent 15 years in business aviation, began his career in the field with Apex Aviation in Napa, Calif. He moved in 2005 to ACM Aviation, which later became part of San Jose, Calif.-based TWC Aviation. His responsibilities over the years have included managing charter and sales staff, negotiating leases and aircraft management contracts, managing business lines and their budgets, acquiring an FBO and developing strategic plans for clients.

Meridian CEO Ken Forester said that Johnson “will play a critical role in establishing and building” the West Coast presence of the company, which owns and operates businesses that provide air charter, aircraft management and maintenance and an executive terminal/FBO.