Inspired by excellence, vision, innovation, creativity, passion and leadership
The global marketplace is challenged by the increasing demands of the global economy and population mobility. Being able to meet these demands requires a deep understanding of current technologies and appropriate strategies.
Sunday Lights brings together a group of professionals, entrepreneurs and investors with international experience, with the common idea of putting their experience, knowledge and professional commitment at the service of society and the economy.
ABOUT US
Domingo Ureña founded Sunday Lights with the vision of supporting and catalyzing the processes of operational improvement and profitability to meet the current challenges of the industry and the global market, securing values, jobs and assets in the long term.
We work closely with our clients to help them identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges and transform their businesses globally.
Our network of professionals is backed by extensive corporate and operational experience. This fact, enables us with an additional skill, which allows us to emphasize with the client and their needs, to be able to successfully manage the challenges or problems they have, as we have solved or managed them before by having been in those same situations, a process that has allowed us to acquire greater knowledge and experience.
Our main challenges are focused on:
- Corporate Restructuring
- Strategic Planning and Vision
- Value Creation
- Profitability Improvement and Sustainability.
To be the FIRST CHOICE and LEADERS in improving profitability and business development in selected industries and markets, permanently reviewing the Status-Quo and exceeding our clients’ expectations.
Supporting Company Boards of Directors, CEOs and Management Committees to develop and achieve high profitability and high operating performance in a sustainable manner, giving visibility to the process and embedding it on an ongoing basis in the Organization.
We can address many types of problems in the industry, having managed or experienced virtually all of them ourselves. Our knowledge and practices are internationally recognized, which mixed with our core values create an unbeatable combination, such as:
Knowledge and Experience
We have solid experience in different countries in the following sectors and industries. – Aerospace, Defense and Air Transport. Our team brings an extensive wealth of knowledge, the result of its extensive professional experience, which is unmatched in the market.
Trust
We believe that trust must be the hinge of all our developments and operations. The process of achieving trust with our clients, regulators and authorities, service providers and partners is fundamental to all our relationships and services.
Supporting Turnaround Processes
Helping client’s own teams to introduce knowledge of change and turnaround tools.
Senior Professional Network
Our network of professionals is backed by their extensive corporate and operational experience.
Innovation Teams
Introduce innovation techniques and the creation of new ways of working in all processes with the Client’s teams, such as: “Start by building a larger perimeter instead of trying to think outside of it”, “create a team that can identify additional needs in existing markets as well as unidentified markets”, “think like an entrepreneurial businessman”…
Excellence
We believe that Professional and Personal Excellence must go hand in hand.
Veteranship
The wisdom we have gained has transformed and enhanced our capabilities, management tactics and skills.
Decades of experience have developed, honed and perfected our ability to succeed both in the development of our professional careers and in relation to our community or any other environment where we are active.
Integrity and Trust
We make the process personal.
Strong Ethical Commitment and Values
We create differentiators in our team and in our work.
Customer Focused
Our multicultural and multifunctional experience allows us to be able to ensure Client Focus, through full adaptability, efficiency and advice, optimally managing the specific boundary conditions of each Project.
How we work with the Client
Our approach to the process is to be fully integrated with the Client’s team, ensuring the transfer of knowledge and experience… working as “One Team”.
SERVICES
Ask us WHY and HOW, we know WHAT TO DO and HOW to do it.
Our main services are oriented to improve the performance of your business and help you transform it.
Our main services are focused on the following areas:
INFORMATION SEARCH AND ANALYSIS, INSIGHT AND INTUITION
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
- Business Strategy, Strategic Planning and Transformation
- Market Capture and Revenue Growth
- Operational Performance Improvement
- Fleet Planning, Allocation and Optimization
- Flight Network Optimization, Design & Strategy
- Commercial Management, Pricing, Inventory and Revenue Management
- Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO), and Technical Services
- Airports
- Cargo Business Consulting
- Resource Optimization (Personnel)
- Purchasing and Supply Chain Strategy
RESTRUCTURING SERVICES ADVISORY
- Financial Transformation
- Cost Optimization
- Cash and Cash Management
- Interim Management
- Liquidity Generation and Financial Transformation
AGREEMENTS
- Strategic Agreements
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Corporate Finance
PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATION
LEADERSHIP PERFORMANCE
ORGANIZATION DESIGN
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
GESTIÓN DE RELACIONES INTER-CULTURALES
STRATEGY AND GROWTH
GOVERNANCE
PEOPLE
BUSINESS TRANSACTION
VALUE IDENTIFICATION
INDUSTRIES & SECTORS
We work in a Global Economy, being our perimeter the whole Planet, although we mainly focus our knowledge and experience in the following industries and sectors:
Aeroespace & Defense
Industrial manufacturing
Aviation, Management and Operations, Aircraft Technical Services
Internal and External Communication
Asset Management, as industrial consultants
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Capital Raising
- Corporate Advisory
What makes us different?
- Professional and Personal Excellence.
- Wisdom, decades of experience have transformed and enhanced our capabilities, tactics and skills.
- Network of high-level professionals.
- Integrity and Trust, we make the process personal.
- We create differentiators in our team and in our work, strong Values and Ethical Commitment.
- Our multicultural and multifunctional experience allows us to be able to ensure Client Focus.
TEAM
Given the complexity of Aviation, Aerospace and Defense projects, it is necessary to create a custom-designed work team for each project.
Team members must have:
Personal and professional “EXCELLENCE”.
“CAPABILITIES AND SKILLS WITH PROVEN EXPERIENCE”.
Access to a NETWORK of Senior Professionals
The team must be created according to the specific needs of each Client, being focused on the same through total adaptability, efficiency and advice, managing in an optimal way the specific boundary conditions of each Project.
Our core team is formed by:
President & CEO
Domingo Ureña Raso
Over the past 30 years, Ureña has held management positions in some of the most important companies in the global aerospace industry. He has been President and CEO of Airbus Military and Executive Vice President of Airbus Defence and Space, where he managed €5.3 billion in revenues and more than 11,000 employees.
He has also been President and CEO of EADS-PZL, CEO and member of the Board of Aircelle. He has been responsible for the definition and implementation of core business improvement programs, such as Power8.
Ureña has deep experience in the hands-on management of a wide variety of functional areas, including Procurement, Operations & Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Infrastructure & Services.
Associate & Senior Advisor
Sergio L. Varela
L. Varela has more than three decades of experience in the air transportation and aerospace industry, where he has developed a solid practical knowledge in airline valuation, airline operations, strategy, marketing, commercial, maintenance and engineering. He has held various executive and management positions.
He has been Head of Maintenance and Engineering at IAG and Chairman of the IAG Maintenance Board. For 20 years, L. Varela has held various management positions at Iberia L.A.E., including SVP Corporate Strategy, SVP Alliances and International Relations, Senior Manager Network Development of IB Group, Head of OPS Engineering Division…
Prior to joining the airline business, L. Varela worked several years in the aerospace industry, including Aeronautical Constructions (CIA incorporated into Airbus Group) and McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach (CA).
Associate & Senior Advisor
Jaime Pérez-Guerra
Pérez-Guerra is an expert in communication, with almost 40 years of experience, from the position of reporter to head of communication at Airbus Military. In this position he was manager of press relations, internal communication, protocol and public relations, as well as responsible for the brand, with a team of more than 40 professionals.
He has been Head of International Press Relations at Iberia. Previously he managed press relations for the Airbus industry in Spain. He has experience in crisis communications, cultural change and communications.
Pérez-Guerra started as a business reporter at Cinco Dias, at a time of profound transformation of Spanish society (1978-89), and then started his own company focused on aerospace and defense companies. He managed communications issues for Rolls-Royce, British Airways, Euravia and Aerospatiale, among others.
Associate & Senior Advisor
Mercedes Mostajo Veiga
Mercedes has more than 30 years of experience in the aerospace and air transport sector, both as a manager and as a consultant. He has been Head of Industry and Transportation Sector at Indra Business Consulting and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, and Managing Partner and Head of Airline and Operations Practice at Booz Allen Hamilton.
She has worked for more than 15 airlines around the world, leading projects spanning a broad spectrum of functional areas, and worked for a variety of other sectors and industries, including manufacturers of advanced engineered products, ground transportation and logistics, tourism, consumer products and energy.
Prior to consulting, Mercedes worked for several years in the aerospace industry, including Construcciones Aeronáuticas in Madrid and MBB in Munich (both companies have been incorporated into the Airbus Group).
Associate & Senior Advisor
Eloy Rodriguez Rondón
Rodriguez Rondon has been working for the last 12 years for leading European Technical Consultants. He has worked as Consultant, Project Manager, Key Account Manager, Commercial Director, Division Director and Country Level Manager. He designed for Airbus, part of the tail cockpit of the MRTT and CN295, and participated and managed wind tunnel test programs for the A400M, A380 and A350.
He has led the development of the Wind Energy Division of Europe’s largest technical consultancy company; ALTRAN in a management and commercial role.
Rodriguez Rondon has been Director of the Aeronautics, Energy and Transportation Division of ALTRAN for 2.5 years in the Middle East Region, with key players in the region such as Saudi Aramco or Yanbu Royal Commission.
Munich (both companies have been incorporated into Airbus Group).