Bassey joined IBA in October 2016 as an analyst responsible for commercial aircraft appraisals, market studies, research and publications. Upon joining IBA, Bassey has worked on various projects including ABS (Asset Backed Security) portfolio valuations, Due Diligence as well as Aviation market intelligence reports. Bassey has also gone on to co-manage several big appraisal and due diligence projects.

Bassey has a Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Aeronautical Engineering and graduated from Teesside University with a MEng (Hons) degree in Aerospace Engineering.

Prior to joining IBA, Bassey worked as a research analyst for Teesside University and as a light/experimental aircraft design engineer for Condor Projects, Aviation division.