Air Industries appointes Peter Rettaliata as Chairman

Air Industries Group announced that it has appointed Peter Rettaliata Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors. As Chairman, he succeeds Michael Taglich, who will remain on the Board of Directors. Rettaliata is currently a director of Air Industries and was formerly the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. He has spent 50 years in the aerospace industry and has served as an executive and director of Air Industries for nearly three decades. For 20 years, from 1994 to December 2014, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and returned to that position on an acting basis from March to November 2017. Prior to joining Air Industries, Mr. Rettaliata was a senior executive of the Grumman Aerospace Corporation for 22 years. Mr. Rettaliata also has served in a number of industry leadership roles, including Chairman of ADDAPT, an organization of regional aerospace companies; a member of the Board of Governors of the Aerospace Industries Association ; and a member of the Executive Committee of the AIA Supplier Council. Mr. Rettaliata is a graduate of Niagara University, where he received a B.A. in History, and Harvard Business School, where he completed the PMD Program.