Michael Schöllhorn, 53, has been appointed as
Chief Operating Officer for Airbus Commercial Aircraft, effective
1 February 2019.
Schöllhorn, currently COO for BSH Home
Appliances GmbH in Munich, will succeed Tom Williams, 66, who
retires 31 December 2018 after 50 years in the aerospace industry,
19 of which were in top Airbus management positions.
Schöllhorn’s wealth of diverse
manufacturing and production expertise was gained from 1999 at the
Bosch Group. Most notably, between 2012 to 2014 he was Executive
Vice President Manufacturing and Quality, additionally heading the
Global Business unit for chassis and safety sensors.
Prior to
that, he held several international management positions in the US
and Czech Republic. From 2004 to 2008 he was Vice President of
Quality Management and from 2012 to 2014, Executive Vice President
Manufacturing and Quality. In 2015, Michael was appointed COO and
Member of the Management Board for BSH Home Appliances GmbH (100% subsidiary of the Robert Bosch GmbH), one of the world’s
leading home appliance manufacturers.
Michael Schöllhorn will report to Guillaume
Faury who will succeed Tom Enders as Airbus CEO following the
shareholders Annual General Meeting on 10 April 2019. He will also
become a Member of the Airbus Executive Committee.
Tom Enders said:
“We are glad to welcome Michael, and we bid farewell to Tom
Williams, a great personality and leader both in Airbus and the
wider European aerospace industry for many years. Tom braved
countless challenges during his time with Airbus, always
overcoming them in the best interest of the company and its
customers, and never losing his dry Scottish humour. Tom’s
impressive career took him from the shop floor as an apprentice
with Rolls-Royce in 1969 to the Airbus Executive Committee. I am
forever grateful for his engagement, leadership and friendship. I
wish him a well-deserved retirement.”
Schöllhorn holds a degree in Mechanical
Engineering and a PhD in Control Engineering from the Helmut
Schmidt University in Hamburg. He served in the German Armed
Forces as a helicopter pilot and officer from 1984 to 1994.
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