Industry Addendum
Embraer Commercial Aviation expands responsibilities fleet leasing expert Baur
October 1st 2018
In September, a 27-year veteran of United Airlines (UA) and Continental Airlines, Ron Baur, has added global leasing to his portfolio of strategy at Embraer Commercial Aviation. Read More » The senior vice president, global leasing and strategy, who graduated in aeronautical engineering from Georgia Tech and later completed an MBA at California State University, will report directly to Embraer Commercial Aviation chief commercial officer, Arjan Meijer.
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At UA, Baur was responsible for acquiring all new mainline and regional aircraft, managing the acquisition and return of all leased aircraft and lessor relations, the South American aircraft company said. He acquired, remarketed and sold more than 750 aircraft with lessors around the world. In his last position before he moved to Embraer, Baur was UA’s vice president of fleet charged with managing a mainline and regional fleet of 1200 aircraft. He was responsbilty for launching UA’s B737-900ER, the B737MAX 10, the A350-1000 and the enhanced Embraer E175.
Baur joined Embraer in June as its commercial aviation strategy head and before leasing was added to his portfolio in September. He is based in Chicago.
