Addendum
Etihad announces top management changes
May 1st 2017
Board directors of The Etihad Aviation Group have appointed Ray Gammell as interim group CEO and announced that his predecessor, James Hogan, would leave the company on July 1. Read More » Additionally, it said senior vice president group treasurer of the Etihad Aviation Group, Ricky Thirion, would succeed James Rigney as group CFO, also on July 1.
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The news followed the announcement in January that Hogan and Rigney would step down from their positions at the airline group in the second half of this year.
Etihad Aviation Group board chairman, Mohammad Al Mazroui, said the company is in “advanced stages of recruitment” for a new group CEO and that an announcement would be made “in a few weeks”.
“Ray will now take full management responsibility for the Etihad Aviation Group and ensure a coordinated group approach. He will continue to advance the strategic review that was initiated by the board in 2016 to reposition the business for continued development in what we anticipate being a prolonged period of challenges for the global aviation,” the board chairman said.
Before he joined Etihad’s executive leadership team in 2009, Gammell held executive positions at Intel Corporation in Ireland and in the U.S. and the Royal Bank of Scotland and served as an officer in the Irish Armed Forces.
Thirion, who holds a master’s degree in mechanical and aeronautical engineering, has overseen the Group Treasury at Etihad since 2007. Previously, he was group treasurer at South African Airways and a Standard Bank Group managing director.
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Other appointments announced in the Etihad reshuffle are: new senior vice president with responsibility for international affairs and environmental affairs, Ahmed Al Qubaisi; senior vice president for the UAE and GGCC, Hareb Al Muhairy and vice president corporate affairs, Amina Taber. Leadership of Etihad’s corporate social responsibility strategy has been added to the duties of vice president medical services, Dr Nadia Bastaki.
