About Fractional Aviation Advisors

Erich Walsh founded Fractional Aviation Advisors to bring independent, analytically rigorous guidance to private aviation clients, a discipline he developed over nearly a decade advising some of the most sophisticated fractional ownership clients in the country.

From 2016 to 2024, Erich served as Senior Vice President of Sales at NetJets, the world's largest private jet operator and a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. At NetJets, he advised private clients, family offices and corporate teams on program selection and renewals. His tenure at NetJets also included direct responsibility for a significant portfolio of client accounts, an experience that informs the firm's account management practice as directly as it informs its acquisition advisory.

Prior to NetJets, Erich spent over two decades in finance, developing the analytical framework and structured evaluation discipline that now underpins every cost model, proposal analysis, and contract review Fractional Aviation Advisors produces. That background, applied to the operational complexity of private aviation programs, is the combination that defines the firm's advisory approach.

Outside work, Erich enjoys cycling, reading and time with his family.

Steve Eiseman co-founded the fractional jet ownership model alongside Richard Santulli in 1986, serving as NetJets' first-ever sales executive. What he and Santulli built, originally as Executive Jet Aviation, was acquired by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in 1998 and grew into the dominant force in global private aviation. The fractional ownership structure that defines the industry today is, in meaningful part, the product of the model Steve helped create and spent his career developing.

Over more than three decades at NetJets, Steve worked with private aviation clients across the full spectrum of program decisions and the full range of client profiles: C-suite executives, family offices, major institutions, and individuals at the highest levels of business and public life. That depth of direct client experience, accumulated over the entire history of the fractional ownership industry, is the foundation of the advisory perspective he brings to Fractional Aviation Advisors.

Steve has spent his career guided by the principles of safety, quality, and long-term client relationships, a set of priorities that translate directly into the firm's approach to every advisory engagement.

John Paul Nicolaides brings more than three decades in senior finance and mortgage leadership to the firm's analysis of long-term aviation costs and commitments.

He helps translate complex analysis into clear recommendations for principals, family offices and corporate teams. He is fluent in French, Spanish, and English, and serves in advisory and governance roles across several civic and community organizations.