Business aircraft brokerage Par Avion has hired Matthew Gahrmann as executive sales director. In this newly created role, Gahrmann will support Houston-based Par Avion in the acquisition and sales of business aircraft for international clientele and be responsible for new business development. He is based near Charlotte, North Carolina.

Par Avion founder and president Janine Iannarelli told AIN in a recent interview that Gahrmann’s prior experience as a commercial real estate broker, project manager, and analyst handling complex, capital-intensive projects and with a history of closing multimillion-dollar transactions will serve her firm well. “I have no doubt he’ll be hitting it out of the park in six months to a year,” Iannarelli said, adding that Gahrmann is her godson and has "watched me in this industry."

In hiring the 2016 graduate of High Point University with bachelor’s degrees in business administration and strategic communications, Iannarelli is also thinking about the future of 24-year-old Par Avion, whose primary business is the exclusive representation and acquisition of aircraft with an emphasis on preowned business jets valued upwards of $75 million. “Is there someone who can step in?” she said. “I have to think about what I want to do with the brand. I’ve been giving that greater thought over the past few years.”