Corporate Governance
EADS' Executive Committee is headed by Louis Gallois, the EADS CEO. Other members are François Auque (Astrium), Lutz Bertling (Eurocopter), Jean Botti (Chief Technical Officer), Fabrice Brégier (EADS Operational Performance), Ralph Crosby (EADS North America), Thomas Enders (Airbus), Jussi Itävuori (Human Resources), Marwan Lahoud (Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer), Hans Peter Ring (Chief Financial Officer EADS and Airbus), Carlos Suárez (Military Transport Aircraft Division) and Stefan Zoller (Cassidian).
The Executive Committee is appointed by the board of directors, itself appointed by Daimler AG and SOGEADE. Both appoint four directors plus one independent director. As of July 2003 SEPI no longer nominates a board member, but a Spanish director is retained as the 11th member. The board also appoints the company's chairmen, one from the Daimler nominated directors and from the SOGEADE nominated directors. In late 2004 Noël Forgeard (then Airbus CEO) was nominated by Lagardère as the next French CEO of EADS. Forgeard had suggested that this system should be abolished in favour of a single CEO in a move that DaimlerChrysler saw as an attempt to engineer a French dominated management team. Following protracted arguments, which caused embarrassment to EADS at the Paris Air Show, the appointment was confirmed by the EADS Board of Directors on 25 June 2005. At the same meeting the Board, in consultation with partner BAE Systems, named Gustav Humbert as President and CEO of Airbus.
As of September 2007 the Chairmen are Rüdiger Grube and Arnaud Lagardère. The other board members are Louis Gallois, Thomas Enders, Hans Peter Ring, Juan Manuel Eguiagaray, Michel Pébereau, Bodo Uebber, François David and Michael Rogowski.
In mid-2012, the general assembly of EADS appointed former Airbus CFO Harald Wilhelm as the new CFO of EADS, taking over for Hans Peter Ring, who will retire from the company. Arnaud Lagardère is going to be appointed as the new chairman and will succeed Bodo Uebber. Moreover, Airbus CEO Thomas Enders will possibly take over as EADS CEO and will be succeeded by current Airbus COO Fabrice Brégier.
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