Lufthansa Technik Fills Top Management Positions for Expansion in Asia
Lufthansa Technik AG is filling important leadership positions to support its continued expansion in Asia Pacific (APAC). Following the successful restructuring of the local sales organization, the Aircraft Overhaul and Component Services divisions will now also be managed directly from the region.
With Elmar Lutter, one of the company's most experienced top managers is taking over the Aircraft Overhaul division in Asia Pacific. He will assume his new position on 1 June and work from Manila in the Philippines. During the course of his international career, Lutter has headed production departments within Aircraft Overhaul in Hamburg and Manila and worked as the CEO of Lufthansa Technik Budapest. Most recently, he was responsible for establishing and managing Lufthansa Technik Puerto Rico.
Burkhard Pfefferle-Tolkiehn, who will head Asia Pacific's Components division as of April 1, has chosen Hong Kong as his base. He has spent many years working in leadership positions within the Component Services division, most recently as Vice President in Hamburg, where he was responsible for the global material supply to more than 800 Lufthansa Technik customers.
With Gerald Steinhoff, Lufthansa Technik's sales organization relocated top management functions to the region as early as 2014. Working from Singapore, Steinhoff and his team established new regional sales structures for Lufthansa Technik that have already brought impressive successes, resulting in annual revenue growth of over 20 percent.
These most recent staffing decisions are the next step in Lufthansa Technik's growth program in the Asia Pacific region. The company is following up its ongoing efforts of building and expanding productionsites by establishing a local leadership structure directly in the region - in close proximity to the customer.
The Asia Pacific region is particularly important for the company, and has boasted growth rates in the double digits for years now. Extensive contracts for component supplies and landing gear overhaulswere recently concluded with Go Air and Air India, for example. Initial successes have also been achieved with the new aircraft types - for example, with China Airlines as the first A350 customer for component supply in APAC. Many customers in the region have been working with Lufthansa Technik for years. The new appointments will now bring these cooperations to a new, local level.
Lufthansa Technik:
With some 35 subsidiaries and affiliates, the Lufthansa Technik Group is one of the leading providers of technical aircraft services in the world. Certified internationally as maintenance, design and production organization, the company has a workforce of more than 25,000 employees. Lufthansa Technik's portfolio covers the entire range of services for commercial and VIP/special mission aircraft, engines, components and landing gear in the areas of digital fleet support, maintenance, repair, overhaul, modification, completion and conversion as well as the manufacture of innovative cabin products.
