Sameer Rehman is enjoying his 22nd year at the Textron group of companies, and in his current role as Managing Director, Africa & Middle East for Bell, he is responsible for sales & service activity for Bell’s commercial products in the region. Before to leading the Africa & Middle East team, he was managing director for Bell’s Asia Pacific business, based in Singapore. Prior to Bell, he led Textron Financial Corporation’s Asia Pacific & Middle East aviation finance group as Global Sales Director before which he was a Six Sigma Black Belt in Cessna Aircraft Company’s Sales and Marketing organization. Rehman started his Textron career in 1999 as Structures Engineer for Cessna’s Single- Engine division, first in Independence, Kansas, and then in Wichita. Sameer is a certified pilot and has Bachelor’s and  Master’s  degrees  in  Aerospace  Engineering  from  Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida, an MBA from Wichita State University and executive, and senior executive education from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona, and Duke University in North  Carolina, respectively.