Airbus further tweaks leadership team

Following the recent appointment of Christian Scherer as CEO of Airbus Commercial Aircraft, the European airframer has announced further changes to streamline leadership and shift priorities. Guillaume Faury will continue as group CEO, but he will focus on strategy and business transformation. Airbus outlined the new leadership team from January 1 today. With Faury no longer directly responsible for Commercial Aircraft, this role will be taken up by Scherer, who has been Chief Commercial Officer. Most other positions remain unchanged. Thierry Baril continues as Chief Human Resources Officer, Bruno Even as CEO of Airbus Helicopters, and Sabine Klauke as Chief Technology Officer. Mike Schoellhorn will continue to lead Airbus Defence and Space, Julie Kitcher as Chief Sustainability Officer and Communications, and Thomas Toepfer as Chief Financial Officer. He started only in September as the successor of Dominic Asam. Chief Operating Officer Alberto Gutierrez will become EVP of Special Industrial Projects, which is a new role in the leadership team as is that of Matthieu Louvot as EVP of Strategy, who comes over from Helicopters. He replaces Antoine Bouvier. Wouter van Wersch becomes EVP International, a role previously occupied by Scherer. He has been President of Europe Region & Sales. Catherine Jestin continues as EVP of Digital and Information Management, and John Harrison as General Counsel. Jeff Knittel remains Chairman and CEO of Airbus Americas and George Xu the CEO of Airbus China. Commercial Aircraft Airbus Commercial Aircraft will get a new management team led by Christian Scherer. Interestingly, there is no immediate replacement for him as CCO, although Benoît de Saint-Exupéry will become EVP of Sales. He is now SVP of contracts. Florent Massou dit Labaquère will become EVP of Operations. He currently is SVP of the A330 and A350 programs. Philippe Mhun continues as EVP of Programmes and Services. CTO Sabine Klauke will join the Commercial Aircraft management team as EVP of Engineering. Other roles are for Stella Belvisi as General Counsel, Maggie Bergsma as Head of Communications, Mathieu Callewaert as EVP of Human Resources, and Thomas Hundt as EVP of Finance. As Guillaume Faury says in a media statement: “Our leadership team will further focus on the operational challenges of today, while addressing strategy and transformation to secure the future in all our businesses. This will require constant attention and stewardship from this leadership team – united around a common purpose and sharing Airbus’ core values – in order to be successful in the fast-changing global environment that has become our new normal.”

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