Guillaume Faury (born 22 February 1968) is a French engineer and businessman. He is the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the aerospace corporation

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as well as the Chairman of its civil aircraft division, Airbus SAS.

Career

Working at

Eurocopter Airbus Helicopters SAS (formerly Eurocopter Group) is the helicopter manufacturing division of Airbus. It is the largest in the industry in terms of revenues and turbine helicopter deliveries. Its head office is located at Marseille Provence Ai ...

(now

Airbus Helicopters Airbus Helicopters SAS (formerly Eurocopter Group) is the helicopter manufacturer, helicopter manufacturing division of Airbus. It is the largest in the industry in terms of revenues and turbine helicopter deliveries. Its head office is located ...

) for ten years, Faury was the chief engineer of the EC225/H225, being responsible for the heavy helicopter

flight test Flight testing is a branch of aeronautical engineering that develops specialist equipment required for testing aircraft behaviour and systems. Instrumentation systems are developed using proprietary transducers and data acquisition systems. D ...

s. He eventually became the executive vice-president for

research and development Research and development (R&D or R+D), known in Europe as research and technological development (RTD), is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, and improving existi ...

(R&D). In 2010, Faury became executive vice-president for research and development at car maker

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. In March 2013 Faury replaced Lutz Bertling as the CEO of Airbus Helicopters. As the new CEO, he faced the H225 crash in Norway, killing all thirteen people onboard and grounding all H225 helicopters used in

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exploitation for a 15-month period. The sale of the helicopter model to the

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was cancelled. Faury restructured the X4 program leading to the H160 medium helicopter development to be introduced in 2019, and launched the X6 development for a

fly-by-wire Fly-by-wire (FBW) is a system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface. The movements of flight controls are converted to electronic signals transmitted by wires, and flight control co ...

successor to the

Super Puma The Airbus Helicopters H215 (formerly Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma) is a four-bladed, twin-engine, medium-size utility helicopter developed and initially produced by the French aerospace company Aérospatiale. It has been subsequently manufactur ...

. He began significant R&D programs like the high-speed X3 Racer and the

CityAirbus The Airbus CityAirbus is a multinational project by Airbus Helicopters to produce an electrically-powered VTOL personal air vehicle demonstrator. It is intended for the air taxi role, to avoid ground traffic congestion. Development The City ...

program. Faury replaced

Fabrice Brégier Fabrice Brégier (born 16 July 1961) is a French business executive. He was appointed president and chief operating officer of Airbus on 1 January 2017. He is on the executive committee of Airbus, which operates Airbus Commercial Aircraft, Air ...

as Airbus Commercial Aircraft COO from February 2018. On 8 October 2018, the Airbus Board of Directors selected him to succeed

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as Airbus CEO, starting from 10 April 2019. Faury will have to shape Airbus' response to the

Boeing New Midsize Airplane The New Midsize Airplane (NMA), or New Midsize Aircraft, (culturally referred to as the Boeing 797) is a concept airliner proposed by Boeing to fill the middle of the market segment. In 2015, Boeing determined the market was large enough to la ...

, face

A320neo The Airbus A320neo family is a development of the A320 family of narrow-body airliners produced by Airbus. The A320neo family (''neo'' for "new engine option") is based on the previous A319, A320 and A321 ( enhanced variant), which was then ren ...

production and operational challenges, complete

A400M The Airbus A400M AtlasNamed after the Greek mythological figure. is a European four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft. It was designed by Airbus Military (now Airbus Defence and Space) as a tactical airlifter with strategic capabil ...

negotiations and address slower-selling models like the

A330neo The Airbus A330neo ("neo" for " New Engine Option") is a wide-body airliner developed by Airbus from the Airbus A330 (now A330''ceo'' – "Current Engine Option"). A new version with modern engines comparable with those developed for the Boei ...

. Airbus Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2022 has reappointed Faury as CEO for next three years. And Faury will lead the company through the recovery post-pandemic of Covid - 19 and develop the environmentally friendly Airbus aircraft fueled by hydrogen.

Other activities

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(ERT), MemberMembers

References

1968 births Living people Chief operating officers French chief executives Airbus people French aerospace engineers École Polytechnique alumni Supaéro alumni People from Cherbourg-Octeville {{France-business-bio-stub