Part Of Company Rebranding To Incorporate 'Airbus' In All Aspects Of the Business

EADS has announced three further top management nominations for its new Airbus Defense & Space Division, which will become operational in 2014. Pilar Albiac-Murillo (60), currently Cassidian’s Chief Operating Officer and CEO of Cassidian Spain, will be Executive Vice President Operations for the new Division. She will lead the transformation process of Airbus Defense & Space. Christian Scherer (51), currently Chief Sales Officer and Head of International Operations within Cassidian, will become Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing for Airbus Defense & Space. Lars Immisch (46), currently Head of Compensation and Benefits within the EADS/Airbus Human Resources organization, will be the new Division’s Executive Vice President for HR.

EADS announced on July 31 that it plans to integrate Airbus Military, Astrium and Cassidian into one Division and rename the Group and its Divisions under the globally recognized Airbus Brand. The Airbus Group will consist of Airbus, Airbus Defense & Space and Airbus Helicopters.

“We are progressing with the appointments for the Division’s top management team. Together with the personnel appointments announced in July, I am happy to report that we are assembling a highly competent, internationally- and teamwork-minded leadership group for Airbus Defense & Space,” said Bernhard Gerwert, currently Head of Cassidian and future CEO of Airbus Defense & Space. “Jointly, our priority now is to work at full steam on the review of the Group’s defense and space activities in order to deliver a roadmap in the fourth quarter for successfully establishing the new Division.”

Previously, on July 31, EADS nominated Bernhard Gerwert (60) as future CEO of Airbus Defense & Space, Domingo Ureña-Raso (55) as Head of the Military Aircraft segment, François Auque (57) as Head of the Space Systems segment. The segment Communication, Intelligence & Security Systems will be led by Evert Dudok (54) and the segment Equipment by Thomas Müller (55). Julian Whitehead (50) was nominated as Chief Financial Officer.

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