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AIRBUS GROUP REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2015 l 118 l
Corporate Governance
4.1 Management and Control
b) Role of the Group Executive Committee
The CEO is responsible for executing the strategy as approved
by the Board of Directors and for managing the day-to-day
operations of the Group’s business and he shall be accountable
for its proper execution accordingly. The Group Executive
Committee supports the CEO in performing this task. The Group
Executive Committee Members shall jointly contribute to the
overall interests of the Company in addition to each member’s
individual operational or functional responsibility within the
Group.
The CEO endeavours to reach consensus among the
members of the Group Executive Committee. In the event
a consensus is not reached, the CEO is entitled to decide
the matter.
c) The Group Executive Committee in 2015
The Group Executive Committee met five times during 2015.
Amongst others the following matters are discussed at the
Group Executive Committee meetings:
 appointment by the heads of the AirbusGroup Divisions and
functions of their management teams;
 major investments;
 setting up and control of the implementation of the strategy
for the Group’s businesses;
 Airbus Group policy matters and management and
organisational structure of the business;
 performance level of the Group’s businesses and support
functions; and
 all business issues, including the operational plan of the Group
and its Divisions and Business Units.
COMPOSITION OF THE GROUP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE IN 2015
Name Start of term Principal Occupation
Tom Enders 2012 Chief Executive Officer AirbusGroup
Fernando Alonso* 2015 Head of Military Aircraft Airbus Defence andSpace
François Auque 2010 EVP Space Systems, Airbus Defence andSpace
Thierry Baril 2012 Chief Human Resources Officer AirbusGroup & Airbus
Jean J. Botti** 2011 Chief Technical Officer AirbusGroup
Fabrice Brégier 2012 Airbus Chief Executive Officer
Guillaume Faury 2013 Airbus Helicopters Chief Executive Officer
Bernhard Gerwert 2012 Airbus Defence andSpace Chief Executive Officer
John Harrison* 2015 Group General Counsel AirbusGroup
Marwan Lahoud*** 2012 Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer AirbusGroup
John Leahy 2012 Airbus Chief Operating Officer – Customers
Allan McArtor 2014 AirbusGroup North America Chief Executive Officer
Klaus Richter 2015 Chief Procurement Officer AirbusGroup & Airbus
Harald Wilhelm 2012 Chief Financial Officer AirbusGroup & Airbus
Tom Williams 2015 Airbus Chief Operating Officer
Note: Status as of 31December 2015. The professional address of all Members of the Group Executive Committee for any matter relating to AirbusGroup is Mendelweg 30,
2333CS Leiden, The Netherlands.
* As announced in the corresponding AirbusGroup press releases of 29January 2015 and 17March 2015 Fernando Alonso and John Harrison have joined the AirbusGroup
Executive Committee as of 1March 2015 and June2015. Domingo Ureña-Raso was a member of the AirbusGroup Executive Committee through January2015.
** Jean Botti has resigned from his position as announced in the AirbusGroup press release of 29January 2016.
*** In March 2016, Marwan Lahoud became EVP International, Strategy and Public Affairs, Airbus Group.
Tom Enders – Airbus Group CEO
Tom Enders was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
of Airbus Group, effective 1 June 2012, after having been
CEO of Airbus since 2007. Before that he served as Co-
CEO of EADS between 2005 and 2007. He was Head of the
Group’s Defence division 2000 - 2005. Tom Enders has been
a member of the Executive Committee of Airbus Group since
its creation in 2000. Prior to joining the aerospace industry in
1991, Mr.Enders worked, inter alia, in the German Ministry of
Defence and in various Foreign Policy think tanks. He studied
Economics, Political Science and History at the University of
Bonn and at the University of California in Los Angeles.
Mr.Enders was President of the BDLI (German Aerospace
Industry Association) from 2005 to 2012. He is member of
the BDI Presidential Board (German Industry Association)
since 2009. From 2005 to 2009 he was Chairman of the
Atlantik-Brücke e.V. In 2014, Mr.Enders joined the Advisory
Council of the Munich Security Conference as well as the
Senate of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. He is Patron of the
German Mayday Foundation which supports airmen, women
and their families in times of need. From 2011 to 2015, Tom
Enders was member of the Business Advisory Group of UK
Prime Minister David Cameron. He sits on the Joint Advisory
Council of Allianz SE since 2013.
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