James Connelly is Senior Vice President for ESG & Corporate Communications at Aircastle.  Connelly initially joined Aircastle in 2007 in and served as Controller from 2012 to 2018 and Chief Accounting Officer from 2018 to 2021.  Since 2021, he has established Aircastle’s ESG reporting framework and leads company sustainability initiatives in addition to fixed income investor relations.  He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Syracuse University and worked at Lehman Brothers and Brown Brothers Harriman prior to joining Aircastle.