This being the technical and operations center, there were not many pinstriped suits in attendance.
Mr. Ruiz is praised as more of a technical and operations expert, the ego to Mr. Sanders's id.
Over the last year, it has had technical and operations problems, though company executives maintained that the problems were isolated cases and not caused by systemic problems.
"Several airlines will have to ground airplanes just for testing," said Vincent De Vroey, general manager technical and operations, for the Association of European Airlines, a trade group in Brussels.
During the 1980s O'Leary dealt with technical and operations people on a regular basis.
The Aberdeen-based company will deliver engineering studies, design, technical and operations support to oil firm DNO for the Tawke field in Kurdistan.
In the front row, wearing a Cheshire cat grin, is the leader of this assembly of technical and operations people, a young banker named Denis O'Leary.
The employees — who primarily fill technical and operations positions — are represented by the National Assn. of Broadcast Employees and Technicians - Communications Workers of America, Local 53.
"It's a good organization, but we've got a lot to do, and we decided to bring on the strongest horse we can find to help us with our technical and operations and racing, our product, really, and then separately to find additional leadership to help us with our commercial activities for INDYCAR.
It needs to be bolstered with other measures including surge capacity from managerial, technical and operations specialists.
