DGAP-Adhoc: Airbus SE: Airbus Board of Directors Selects Guillaume Faury Future Chief Executive Officer

DGAP-Ad-hoc: Airbus SE / Key word(s): Change of Personnel 
Airbus Board of Directors Selects Guillaume Faury Future Chief Executive 
Officer 
 
08-Oct-2018 / 18:15 CET/CEST 
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*Ad-hoc release, 8 October 2018* 
 
*Airbus Board of Directors Selects Guillaume Faury Future Chief Executive 
Officer * 
 
The Board of Directors of Airbus SE (stock exchange symbol: AIR) has 
selected Guillaume Faury as future Airbus Chief Executive Officer (CEO). 
Faury, 50, who currently serves as President Airbus Commercial Aircraft, 
will succeed Tom Enders, 59, who remains CEO until the Annual General 
Meeting (AGM) on 10 April 2019, when the appointment of Faury as executive 
member of the Board will be submitted to shareholders. 
 
Tom Enders, CEO of Airbus, said: "Guillaume is an excellent choice. He has 
gained broad industrial and aeronautic experience over many years and in 
many roles both inside and outside Airbus. With his strong values and 
international mindset, Guillaume stands for the new generation of leaders 
that Airbus needs for the coming decade. He knows he can rely on me to 
facilitate a smooth transition." 
 
Guillaume Faury served in various senior management roles at Eurocopter from 
1998 to 2008. Starting in Engineering, then Flight Test, he later became 
Executive Vice President for Commercial Programmes, then Executive Vice 
President for Research and Development. 
In 2009, Faury joined Peugeot S.A., where he served as Executive Vice 
President for Research and Development as a Member of the Managing Board. In 
May 2013, Faury returned to Airbus as CEO of Airbus Helicopters and in early 
2018 he took the helm of Airbus Commercial Aircraft. 
 
Denis Ranque, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Airbus, said: "We have 
diligently prepared for this succession, reaching a unanimous conclusion 
after a thorough examination of all potential candidates, internal and 
external. We are delighted to be appointing someone of Guillaume's calibre 
to take the helm. His global outlook, extensive operational experience, 
strong personal values and straightforward leadership style make him the 
ideal candidate to rally Airbus teams in the delivery of value to customers, 
partners and shareholders going forward. The Board of Directors is very 
grateful to Tom Enders, who has served Airbus with much passion and success 
for almost two decades. The company's strategic, structural and governance 
transformations brought about under Tom's leadership, stand Airbus in good 
stead to pursue its performance trajectory and continue to deliver on 
commitments to our shareholders and the wider financial community in future 
years." 
 
"I am honoured to have been selected by the Board to lead this extraordinary 
company. 
I look forward to taking on this new challenge with passion and enthusiasm, 
relying on the exceptional expertise and engagement of all Airbus people 
around the world," said Guillaume Faury. "For the coming months I remain 
fully dedicated to leading the commercial aircraft business, delivering our 
utmost to satisfy our commercial aircraft customers and transitioning the 
organisation to the next generation of leaders." 
 
Denis Ranque will continue as Chairman of the Board of Directors until the 
end of his mandate in April 2020, as foreseen in the staggered board 
succession process, introduced at AGM 2016. At that time and after seven 
years as Chairman, Denis Ranque has requested to leave the Board to pursue 
other interests. The Board will commence the process of selecting a new 
Chairman in due course having regard to, as expressed in its internal rules, 
the importance of maintaining international diversity at Board and 
Management level. 
 
* * * 
 
*About Airbus* 
Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 
2017 it generated revenues of EUR 59 billion restated for IFRS 15 and 
employed a workforce of around 129,000. Airbus offers the most comprehensive 
range of passenger airliners from 100 to more than 600 seats. Airbus is also 
a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, 
as well as one of the world's leading space companies. In helicopters, 
Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions 
worldwide. 
 
*Contacts for the media* 
Rainer Ohler [phone] 
Véronique Creissels [phone] 
Martin Agüera [phone] 
Stefan Schaffrath [phone] 
 
This and other press releases and high resolution photos are available on: 
AirbusNewsroom [1] 
 
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Language: English 
Company:  Airbus SE 
          P.O. Box 32008 
          2303 DA Leiden 
          Netherlands 
Phone:    [phone] 
Fax:      [phone] - 26481 
Internet: www.airbusgroup.com 
ISIN:     NL0000235190 
WKN:      938914 
Indices:  MDAX 
Listed:   Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated 
          Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, 
          Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange 
 
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