By Nelson Alcantara

Following last weekend’s resignation of Gustav Humbert over the delays in the production of the company’s A380 super jumbo, Europe's leading commercial aircraft manufacturer Airbus has hired Chirstian Streiff as Airbus president and chief executive officer, it was announced.

The new appointment follows Streiff’s July 2 nomination to the position, now ratified by the Airbus Shareholder Committee made up from representatives of Airbus shareholders, EADS and BAE Systems.

Prior to his appointment at Airbus, Christian Streiff was Deputy CEO of Saint-Gobain Group, a position he held until 2005, Airbus said in a release.

Streiff has a degree in civil engineering and has had ample experience in manufacturing and as corporate planning manager.  From 2001 till 2003, Streiff has carried out functions as senior vice president of the Saint-Gobain Group and president of the Abrasives and Ceramics & Plastics Division (formerly Norton), a very international US-based division, before being named deputy CEO of Saint Gobain.

Christian Streiff is a supervisory board member of the German companies Thyssen-Krupp AG and Continental AG as well as of Prysmian SpA (Italy).

Further, the new Airbus chief has worked in the manufacturing sector with the diversified multinational Saint-Gobain Group since 1979, serving the company for 26 years. During this time he has had management experience in many different countries, including placements in Germany, where he spend in total ten years of his career, in Italy and the US, as well as France. These positions brought him into close contact with a variety of businesses, dealing – amongst others - with automotive supplies, composites, packaging, pipelines, abrasives, ceramics and high performance plastics.

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