tion; and director of strategic planning and new business development for electronics/engines systems.
Richard Briffod
OnAir, based in Geneva, named Richard Briffod director of
business development for Mobile Network Operators.
Briffod heads up Mobile OnAir Advanced Inflight Applications as well as the development and implementation of strategic partnerships with mobile network operators worldwide.
Before joining OnAir, Briffod spent more than 10 years as a
strategy consultant and marketing executive in the technology,
telecommunications and media industries, working for Monitor Company and Oliver Wyman. Over the last five years, he
worked for Orange Switzerland as marketing director for consumer and business to business markets.
Gary Hodak
King Aerospace Commercial Corp., of
Addison, Texas, named Gary Hodak
director of technical services. Hodak will
oversee large aircraft refurbishment programs at the firm’s modification facility
in Ardmore, Okla. His responsibilities
include developing and maintaining relationships with avionics, OEM and spe-cial-mission equipment manufacturers.
Hodak previously served as director of
avionics at Associated Air Center. There, he held various posi-
Gary Hodak
tions, managing Boeing Business Jet and Airbus avionics and
systems modifications.
Airbus Management Appointments
Airbus named Didier Lux executive vice president of Customer
Services. Lux, who joined Airbus in 2004, was most recently
executive vice president of Quality. He succeeds Charles Champion, who has named executive vice president of engineering.
Lux began his career as a flight test engineer at the French
DGAC before joining Air Inter, where he held positions in operations and maintenance. After the Air France/Air Inter merger,
he became Air France vice president of maintenance. From 2003
to 2004, he worked for the French railway operator SNCF.
Pilar Albiac Murillo will succeed Lux as head of Quality and
Lean Improvement.
Prior to her arrival at Airbus in 2008, Murillo held senior
positions in large international manufacturing organizations.
Philippe Duhamel
ThalesRaytheonSystems appointed Philippe Duhamel its CEO
for French operations. Duhamel succeeds Hervé Multon, who
was appointed vice president and deputy to the senior vice president of Strategy for Thales.
Duhamel joined Thales in 1987, holding positions in the Air
Traffic Management and Command, Control, Communications,
Computers and Information businesses. Prior to his current
position, Duhamel was managing director of the Ground Radar
business unit for Thales’s Air Systems Division.
