News / Amerijet gets new owner and new CEO as founder bows out

Amerijet, the Miami-based all-cargo carrier, has a new owner – private equity firm ZS Fund– and its CEO founder is set to be replaced.

ZS Fund paid HIG Capital an undisclosed sum for Amerijet, which operates 767Fs and 727Fs to destinations throughout the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and South America.

It appears that CEO David Basset, who founded the company in 1974 and owns 34% of it, is to be replaced by Vic Karjian, former chairman of Swiss carrier Farnair and co-founder and CEO of Falcon ...