Bombardier Announces Management Changes - Seite 2

With more than 23 years of experience in aviation, Fred Cromer spent six years at ILFC as President and previously as Senior Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Earlier in his career, he held various executive positions in the airline industry, such as Chief Financial Officer, ExpressJet, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Continental Express, Vice President Fleet Planning, Continental Airlines and Director of Fleet Planning, Northwest Airlines. He holds a Bachelor in Economics from the University of Michigan and an MBA in Finance from DePaul University in Chicago.

In addition, Bombardier is welcoming Plane View Partners and its Chairman, Henri Courpron, as strategic advisors. Mr. Courpron is a former Chief Executive Officer of ILFC who also served for 20 years at Airbus in a number of management positions, including President and Chief Executive Officer of Airbus, North America. His team's mandate consists of conducting an extensive review of Bombardier Commercial Aircraft's operations, with the objective of improving its overall performance.

Plane View Partners has a diverse team of senior executives in aviation, with an extensive knowledge of the fields most directly relevant to Bombardier Commercial Aircraft's challenges, such as airplane deal making, marketing and communications, contract management, airline operations, training and recruiting.

"Having Fred and Henri on board gives us a strategic edge like we've never had before. We are really paving the way to strengthen our existing commercial programs and to make the CSeries aircraft a phenomenal success", concluded Mr. Bellemare.

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