Brad Sheehan, Senior Vice President of ExpressJet Airlines, will speak Thursday at 7 p.m. in Lowder Hall. The event is hosted by the Aviation Center and Aviation Management Advisory Board of the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business and is open to the public. Sheehan, an Auburn graduate, leads a team of more than 4,000 pilots with more than 2,000 daily departures. He is ExpressJet’s former Vice President of Flight Operations, where he led a team recognized for comprehensive change management initiatives system-wide. Sheehan has served in a number of capacities during his 18-year airline industry career. He was Director of Safety at Atlantic Southeast/ExpressJet for four years, has been a Check Airman, Training Program Manager and Chief Pilot.