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Austria native and King Air C90 owner Boris Greiner has the entrepreneurial spirit and business sense of taking what he learns, making good decisions and using it to better his life – both professionally and personally. He has this enterprising nature in his genes, as his ancestors started a small business in 1868 that has grown into a large global firm through bold decisions inspired by a visionary outlook, innovation and a keen sense of the market. It was his time working in the family operation that he learned the value of business aviation.
Greiner was born in Vienna in 1971 and raised in Upper Austria – a state in northern Austria that borders Germany and the Czech Republic. Knowing that working in the family business was an option, he
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Greiner’s King Air C90 N290PA parked on the ramp at Innsbruck Airport (LOWI) located in the middle of the Alps in Austria.
prepared himself well by attending the Vienna campus of Webster University St. Louis, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in management. He went on to get his International Master of Business Administration (IMBA) through a program that allowed him to study seven months at the Vienna University of Economics and seven months at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
After receiving his IMBA, Greiner stayed in the United States and oversaw a new manufacturing site of the Greiner company being constructed in Monroe, North Carolina. He then moved back to Austria and served as CEO of the Greiner company, where he experienced firsthand the value of aviation through chartered aircraft.
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