Director of Strategy, Planning, and Innovation, AAR
Bio
Joel Blumenau is the Director of Strategy, Planning, and Innovation for AAR. He started with AAR almost 4 years ago as head of product support for the Airvolution® effort.
Since then, Joel has spearheaded the launch of the platform including all customer service and customer success initiatives as well as early development team efforts. He has a 20+ year background leading SaaS teams for industries as varied as aviation, insurance, financial trading, and retail brokerage. Joel also manages the teams involved in continuous improvement of AAR’s intranet and public-facing websites, a large variety of emerging technology efforts, and the AAR global digital systems strategy.
In a prior career, Joel was an options market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange and later an upstairs equity options and futures trader. He received his bachelor of arts in economics from Stanford University.