Filippo Bagnato Appointed CEO of ATR

The ATR Assembly of Members has appointed Filippo Bagnato (62) as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ATR. He succeeds Stéphane Mayer, whose three-year mandate according to ATR’s statutes has expired.

Filippo Bagnato previously served successfully as CEO of ATR between 2004 and 2007. During the last three years, while he was Finmeccanica Executive Vice President Technical, Industrial and Commercial Development, he assured the chairmanship of the ATR’s Board.

His reappointment responds to the aim of ATR’s shareholders, Alenia Aeronautica (a Finmeccanica company) and EADS, to ensure the continuity of the ATR programme management and its further growth, keeping up strong relationship with customers and privileged confidence from them.

Filippo Bagnato holds Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering Degrees, gained at the Politecnico of Turin.

He served as Administrator within the ATR Management Board from 1996 to 2001, and was Chairman of the Board in 1996, 1998, 2000 and from June 2007 to end May 2010. Between June 2001 and June 2002 he was one of Alenia Aeronautica’s representatives of the Members’ Assembly of ATR. Between September 2002 and May 2004, he was CEO of Eurofighter GMBH in Munich.

Among his other roles, Filippo Bagnato has served as: Director of Eurofighter GMBH consortium, Eurofighter International; Deputy Chairman of Aermacchi; Chairman of the Board of Lockheed Martin Alenia Tactical Transport Systems; Chief Operating Officer of Alenia Aeronautica Company; Head of Alenia’s Aeronautics Division; Head of Alenia’s Military Aircraft Division; Head of Aeritalia Space; and Director of Program Planning and Control at Aeritalia.

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