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At its extraordinary meeting on April 2, the Lufthansa Technik Supervisory Board has appointed Dr. Detlef Kayser as the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He will take over from Carsten Spohr with effect from the same date. In addition, Thorsten Dirks was elected as a new member of the Supervisory Board. With this decision,

Lockheed Martin has appointed Yvonne Hodge Senior Vice President of Enterprise Business Transformation, effective June 15. Hodge currently serves as Vice President of Business Innovation Transformation & Enterprise Excellence of the company’s Space business area. In her new role, Hodge will be responsible for developing strategies and implementing integrated, cross-functional solutions that transform operations through

Lufthansa has released that Ulrik Svensson, Member of the Executive Board and Chief Financial Officer has informed the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the company that he has to resign from his office for health reasons. Svensson has announced that he will resign from his office and terminate his Executive Board activities with effect

Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has appointed Massimo Claudio Comparini as Deputy CEO and Senior Executive Vice President Observation, Exploration and Navigation Business Line at Thales Alenia Space as well as CEO of Thales Alenia Space Italia, with immediate effect. Comparini succeeds Donato Amoroso. Comparini, former CEO at

Acro Aircraft Seating has appointed Neil Cairns as the company’s Chief Executive Officer effective from March 9, 2020. Cairns brings with him many years’ aerospace seating experience, covering products in all seating classes. He has a wide-ranging track record of lean process improvement and performance improvement, most recently holding positions as the Vice President and

John Bordeaux has been appointed as GECAS’ Chief Investment Officer.  He will take up the role from April 2020. Bordeaux will be responsible for the various teams that are involved in making GECAS’ portfolio and investment decisions, namely Aircraft Trading, Commercial Operations and Portfolio Strategy. Having all these under one leader will ensure that the

Trenchard Aviation Group has appointed Sohaib Ahmed as its Technical Sales Manager. Ahmed has worked in the aviation industry for over eight years and has held several sales positions within aircraft cabin interiors and MRO businesses.  With an extensive technical sales background across the aircraft cabin interiors sector, Ahmed has worked with many of the

Markus Binkert, former long-serving member of SWISS’s management corps and Management Board and currently CCO of Lufthansa’s Munich hub, is to assume the previously vacant position of SWISS Chief Financial Officer with immediate effect. In a further move, Thomas Frick, Accountable Manager and Member of the SWISS Extended Management Board, is to assume the restored

AAR has released that H. John Gilbertson, Jr., retired Managing Director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., has been elected to the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. The addition of Gilbertson increases the size of the Board from 11 to 12 directors.  Gilbertson served as a strategic and financial advisor to clients of Goldman Sachs