Woody started his career with Bankers Trust Co. in New York in 1961, spending four years in credit analysis, branch location and merger partner identification. He left to join TWA’s Planning Department and then transferred to its Special Services Division which among other things, ran overseas airlines, performed management consultant studies for foreign airlines, and ran NASA’s Florida launch facility. He was Division Director of Administration when he left after nearly ten years. He joined Douglas Aircraft, first in Market Research, then promoted to Sales Manager- West Africa, selling Nigeria Airways its first two DC-10-30’s. From Douglas, he joined a Continental Airlines subsidiary, CASI, a joint venture with Citibank, a leader in aircraft leasing, acting as the bank’s asset managers for both aircraft and railroad rolling stock. Continental decided to drop the venture in early 1981 and Woody and three others became officers of Citibank continuing the function.
He left Citibank in 1985, joining United Aviation Services, a Paris and New York based aircraft leasing firm as VP-Marketing. In 1987 he, moved to Arizona, setting up a consulting business, A.V. Woodhouse & Associates, which among other projects, attempted to start a transcontinental airline, with its hub in Tucson. While the community wanted it, no one was willing to put up money to back it. So Woody moved to San Francisco to be Security Pacific Leasing’s aviation expert (later taken over by Bank of America) When he retired from BofA in 2000, he oversaw a $7 billion portfolio of aircraft on lease to major airlines around the world.
He moved to Reno the same year, re-activating A.V. Woodhouse & Associates, and has also just spent the last almost five years as a part time employee of the Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce, working with the membership. He is an alumnus of Princeton University and is a retired Captain in the US Army Reserve.
Specialties: Transportation, Banking, Administration, Financing, Marketing, Market Research, Sales