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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Gerald Weber
Gerald Weber was appointed Executive Vice President Operations in April 2007, and as such oversees all the engineering, manufacturing and IT activities across the entire Airbus organisation. Mr Weber has also been appointed a member of the Airbus Executive Committee. Until recently, he was Head of Truck Production Creation (4P) and Member of the Board ”Commercial Vehicles” at DaimlerChrysler AG.

Mr Weber apprenticed as a tool-maker and graduated from Stuttgart University in 1977 with a diploma in mechanical engineering. He obtained a PhD in mechanical engineering at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production-techniques and Automation (IPA), Stuttgart in 1982.

Mr Weber began his professional career with Audi AG in 1982 as Senior Manager production-methods and logistics, before joining Autolatina in 1987 as General Manager of the Volkswagen-Taubate plant in Brazil. In 1990, he became Director of Central manufacturing-engineering for Powertrain projects at Volkswagen, Wolfsburg. In 1991, Mr Weber was nominated Member of the Board for Technical Affairs at Skoda, Czech Republic, a position he held until 1996 when he returned to Volkswagen as General Manager and head of the Wolfsburg plant.

In 1999 Mr Weber moved to A.T. Kearney as Vice President “ Automotive practice”. He joined DaimlerChrysler AG as Head of Business Unit, Powersystems in 2002. He was then nominated Head of DaimlerChrysler AG Truck Product Creation (4P) in 2004.

Gerald Weber was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany in 1949. He is married with one daughter. Holding a PPL-A-License, he enjoys flying single-engine aircraft.
 

Airbus Press Department
April 2007
 
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