Mario Antonio Ebcim
Director, Commercial Airplane Sales, Eurasia, Boeing
Mario Antonio Ebcim is currently Sales Director for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, based out in Istanbul. He was the Director for Strategy and Market Development for the Eurasia region, supporting the Vice President of Sales between August 2022 to August 2023. He joined The Boeing Company in 2017 as the Regional Director for Marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, covering 16 airlines in Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, supporting airlines in the region for their Network and Fleet Planning activities and training of aviation future talents among other duties.
More about Mr. Ebcim
Mario was born and grown up in Istanbul, Turkey. Soon after graduating from high school, he left for Montreal, where he studied Economics and Political Science at the University of Montreal in Canada.
Mario spent the first years of his professional life as a Business Development Manager for a start-up in Rome. In 2008, he joined the then Alenia Aermacchi to work on several departments, starting from Business Planning department, responsible in evaluating military airplane products such as the Eurofighter and the tactical airlifter C-27J. He then moved to work again on the business development department, where he supervised the potential partnerships for promoting the M-346 Trainer jet to international customers, within NATO and the Middle East. His final assignment in Alenia was to head the business development activities for the Eurofighter and F-35 Programs. Mario moved then back to his native land Turkiye, in 2014, where he had the privilege to join the Network Planning department of Turkish Airlines. In his 3-y term, he mainly supported the SVP for strategic projects such as the initial phase of the development of THY’s Network Strategy for the new Istanbul Airport.
Mario is also active outside of work, being one the Founder of a cultural association based in Istanbul that promotes and conserves the Levantine Heritage in Turkiye.