Meet Our Consultant Staff
The following are brief statements of experience for key individuals. To view a consultant's full resume as a PDF document open the link by clicking on the individual's name.

Frank C. Newton, Jr., Esq.
Senior Vice President 
1990 to Present 
Mr. Newton, a senior member of the airport consulting community, has over thirty-five years of experience in the Aviation Industry.  He offers a complete menu of financial, legal, negotiating and strategic planning services to Airports in the areas of: tenant and airline negotiations; drafting of leases, Airport Use Agreements, request for proposals development; passenger facility charge applications; financial feasibility studies; airport noise issues and advice; Fixed Base Operator development and issues; concessions development; rates and charges analyses; budget preparation; master plan development; and general financial, business and management advising.  Included in Mr. Newton's professional experience are positions as Assistant Airport Manager for Finance and Administration and Deputy Director of Charlotte/Douglas International Airport; Regional Director of Properties for Eastern Airlines; President of Thompson Consultants International, Inc.; and co-founder of Newton & Associates, Inc. 

Frank C. Newton, III
Vice President
1990 to Present 
As Vice President, Mr. Newton is responsible for managing the firm's client work product and new business development activities.  With over fifteen years of hands-on experience, Mr. Newton has gained a wealth of experience in providing sound business related and financial strategies to the firm's airport clients.  Areas of Mr. Newton's expertise include airline agreement development and negotiations, airline rate setting models, airline/airport tenant affairs, airport bond financial feasibility analyses and continuing disclosures, capital improvement program cost recovery plans, cargo development, FAA benefit cost analyses, general financial planning, passenger facility charge program development and maintenance, rental car concession development, request for proposals/qualifications program development, and various other client support services. 

Christopher C. Garnett, C.M.
Senior Consultant
2007 to Present
Mr. Garnett has more than nineteen years of experience in the field of aviation financial consulting. As a Senior Consultant of the firm, Mr. Garnett’s experience is applied to the preparation and management of financial feasibility studies; funding alternatives for capital improvement programs; airline rates and charges negotiations; the negotiation of airport tenant lease agreements; preparation of passenger facility charge ("PFC") applications and on-going support assistance with reporting and compliance issues; forecasting aviation activity; benefit cost analyses ("BCA"); concession analyses; economic impact studies and general airport management consulting.

Michael D. Hill, Jr., C.M.
Senior Consultant
1997 to Present 
Mr. Hill provides financial planning assistance to airport clients including complex financial modeling; development of cost recovery based airline and tenant rates and charges; preparation of passenger facility charge applications and amendments; and the preparation of financial feasibility analyses, funding plans, debt capacity analyses, and other financial, operational and socioeconomic research studies related to airport development and expansion.  Additionally, Mr. Hill's experience includes general financial analysis; air service studies; FAA benefit cost analyses; air cargo development; concession analysis; airline and tenant airport use agreements; and other general financial and management planning projects.  Before joining Newton & Associates, Inc., Mr. Hill was an Airport Operations Officer and Financial Analyst at the Yuma International Airport. 

Deborah N. Zufall
Consultant
2001 to Present 
Ms. Zufall has over fifteen years of management experience, with a specialization in risk management and insurance.  As a consultant with the firm, Ms. Zufall applies her expertise in performing financial feasibility studies associated with the issuance of airport debt to finance capital improvements, preparing Request for Proposals, Concession and Management Agreements.  In addition, Ms. Zufall prepares Passenger Facility Charge applications and amendments, airport Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program development, assists in the review and preparation of Airline Use Agreements, concession studies, airline rates and charges surveys and insurance and indemnification reviews as well as other financial and management projects. Before joining Newton & Associates, Inc., Ms. Zufall was a Risk Manager for Vitas Healthcare Corporation.

Staff Resumes:
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