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February 1st 2013
There have been changes at the top at Airbus China. Eric Chen, formerly senior vice-president commercial and external affairs and one of the aircraft manufacturer’s pioneer salesmen in China, has succeeded Laurence Barron as president of Airbus China. Read More »
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| Promotions: Airbus China president, Eric Chen | EADS China chairman and CEO, Laurence Barron |
Barron, who held the position for nine years, has been promoted to chief executive and chairman of Airbus parent, EADS China.
Also, Rafael Gonzalez-Ripoli-Garzon has been appointed Airbus China chief operating officer. He was previously head of Airbus’Centre of Excellence Empennage/Aft Fuselage in Spain.
Chen’s role as head of Airbus China includes business development, commercial activities, customer services and industrial cooperation.
He joined Airbus in 1994 as area sales director and since that time has seen the Mainland’s in-service Airbus fleet grow from 6% to around 50% today for aircraft over 100 seats.
All the appointments came into effect on January 1.
Leasing company, AWAS, has appointed Marlin Dailey as chief commercial officer. He will lead an integrated sales, trading and market development organization within AWAS.
Dailey previously had a 32-year career with Boeing. Most recently he was President, Boeing Germany, Northern Europe, EU and Africa. Prior to that he was executive vice-president sales and marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
