Lufthansa has appointed Remco Steenbergen to the function of chief monetary officer.
Taking over the place at the beginning of January, Steenbergen may also sit on the manager board.
After the resignations of Ulrik Svensson and Thorsten Dirks, Carsten Spohr, chairman of the manager board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, took over the duties of the chief monetary officer on an interim foundation.
With the appointment of Steenbergen, the finance division can be re-established.
It’s going to embody controlling and danger administration, company finance, accounting and steadiness sheets, taxes, and buying, in addition to mergers and acquisitions.
“With Remco Steenbergen, we could have a distinguished monetary professional with intensive expertise within the capital markets becoming a member of us as the brand new Lufthansa Group chief monetary officer,” mentioned Karl-Ludwig Kley, chairman of the Deutsche Lufthansa AG supervisory board.
“Remco Steenbergen brings with him wonderful monetary experience from numerous corporations in addition to industries and has additionally impressed the supervisory board along with his persona.
“Particularly now, when the pandemic is having such critical penalties for air journey, an internationally skilled and well-respected chief monetary officer is extra essential than ever for Lufthansa Group: not solely to beat the present disaster but in addition for the approaching years, when we’ve got to – and wish to – pay again authorities stabilisation funds.”
Most just lately, Steenbergen was chief monetary officer of Barry Callebaut Group primarily based in Zurich, Switzerland and previous to that, labored at Philips and at KPMG.
All through his profession, he has held a variety of worldwide management and monetary administration roles at quite a few corporations within the Netherlands, the UK, Taiwan, Belgium, Eire, the US and Switzerland.
