Airbus S.A.S.
First created in 1970
Shareholders
Airbus is an EADS company
President and CEO
Thomas Enders
Number of employees
56,000
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Fabrice Brégier
Fabrice Brégier was appointed Airbus Chief Operating Officer (COO) on 31st October 2006. He is also, as a Member of the EADS Executive Committee, commissioned by Louis Gallois to improve the overall Operational Performance of the group. At Airbus his responsibilities include Power8, the company’s wide-ranging restructuring and change programme, the Executive Committee functions Operations, Engineering and Procurement, and the A350 programme.

Fabrice Brégier was born on 16th July 1961. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines, and started his career in 1983 as a test engineer at Creys-Malville nuclear power station, becoming sales manager at Pechiney (Japan) in 1984. In 1986 he joined the DRIRE Alsace (Ministry of Industry) and was then appointed Director of economic and financial affairs with the Ministry of Agriculture in 1989.

Having been Advisor to several French Ministers, Mr Brégier joined Matra Défense in 1993 as Chairman of the Apache MAW GIE (co-operation with Dasa) and Chairman of the Eurodrone GIE (with STN-Atlas). In 1996 he was appointed Director of Stand-Off activities (Apache, Scalp EG/Storm Shadow) in what had become Matra BAe Dynamics.

In 1998, Fabrice Brégier became CEO of Matra BAe Dynamics. He was appointed CEO of MBDA, the leading European Missile Systems Company that was created in 2001 by Aerospatiale Matra, British Aerospace and Finmeccanica. In 2003, Fabrice Brégier became President and CEO of the Eurocopter Group and was appointed Head of EADS’ Eurocopter Division in June 2005.

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Airbus Press Department January 2008
 
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