Airbus S.A.S.
First created in 1970
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Airbus is an EADS company
President and CEO
Thomas Enders
Number of employees
56,000
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Thierry Baril
Thierry Baril was appointed Executive Vice President, Human Resources, effective October 2007. As such, he is responsible for defining and implementing a company-wide Human Resources strategy, ensuring people integration and developing key skills and competences as well as enhancing the platform for greater internal mobility. He will strongly support the implementation of Power8 and will attach great value to Airbus' internationalisation.

Mr Baril joins Airbus, coming from Eurocopter Group where he was Executive Vice President Human Resources, and as such a member of the Eurocopter Executive Committee since January 2003. In this position, Mr Baril managed the global Human Resources activities with subsequent experience in ensuring the implementation of the human resources policy across Eurocopter's European sites and its 15 subsidiaries worldwide. He has been tremendously involved in the implementation of Vital, a change action plan aimed at ensuring Eurocopter's business transformation.

Mr. Baril holds a University Degree in Personnel Management (DiplĂ´me Universitaire de Technologie en Gestion des Entreprises et des Administrations) as well as a Business Degree in Human Resources Management and Development obtained at the Institut de Gestion Sociale in Paris in 1988.

Mr Baril started working for Boccard SA in 1988 as deputy to the Human Resources Director and transferred to Laborde & Kupfer-Repelec, a subsidiary of GEC ALSTHOM, as Human Resources Manager in 1991.

From there, Thierry Baril moved on to Alstom Energy where he successively held the position of Human Resources Director of the company's Belfort site from 1995 and then that of Vice President Human Resources of Alstom Energy Group. He gained important experience in recruitment and selection as well as in negotiating innovative salary and benefits packages and supporting diverse restructuring plans in Europe.

Following on from his experience in Electrical Machines, Mr Baril then became Managing Director Europe, Human Resources for GE (General Electric) at their Belfort Headquarters in 1998 and from December 2000 he was Vice President Human Resources of Alcatel Space at their headquarters in Toulouse.

Thierry Baril was born in February 1965 in Suresnes, France. He is married with four children. In his spare time, he enjoys riding a motorbike and playing the guitar.
 

Airbus Press Department October 2007

 
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