NEWS - PEOPLE Guillaume Halleux takes top commercial post at Swissport Air cargo executive Guillaume Halleux has joined Swissport International AG as chief commercial officer and member of the executive leadership team, effective 18 September. With over 25 years of experience, the new commercial chief joined Swissport from Qatar Airways Cargo, where he previously served as cargo chief and cargo vice president for Asia Pacific. Swissport said Guillaume will be in charge of executing the group’s commercial agenda in developing existing and building new client relationships and driving the
acquisition of new business. He will work closely with regional business leaders and maintain an open customer dialogue to build long-term partnerships based on trust and operational excellence. A French citizen, Guillaume started his career with Air France in 1997, where he held several positions in logistics and business development before joining the SkyTeam Cargo US joint venture between Air France, Delta Airlines, and Korean Air. He also held the regional director post for Hong Kong and South China at Air France-KLM.
DHL promotes new head of global air freight DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist of DHL Group, has announced changes in its global leadership team with Thomas Mack, current executive vice president for air freight, set to move into a new senior advisor role. Max Sauberschwarz, who currently holds the role of senior vice president for StarBroker, DHL Global Forwarding’s air charter organisation, will assume the role of head of global air freight on 1 October 2023. .
Mack and Sauberschwarz will report directly to Tim Scharwath, DHL forwarding chief, during the transition, after which Mack will leave the company into retirement in October 2024. Thomas Mack joined the company five years ago as head of global air freightwherehewasheavilyinvolved in transforming the organization into one of the world’s leading providers of integrated air freight services, together with its express counterpart.
Dronamics elects general manager for Australia Cargo drone developer Dronamics is making preparations to strengthen its presence in the Asia Pacific as it appointed Gavin Gomes, a certified pilot, as general manager for Australia and member of the senior management team, effective 1 August.
in Australia since 2020. In 2022, it received approval to conduct experimental test flights with a subscale prototype of its flagship aircraft, the remotely piloted Black Swan. That same year, It signed a manufacturing agreement with Quickstep Holdings Limited, an independent aerospace composite business in Australia, to Gavin’s track record spans several help scale up production and meet the sectors including startups, private growing demand for its cargo mobility companies, listed entities, and global services. multinationals like Canon, Australia Post, Telstra, and IBM. He also serves The company is confident about as a non-executive director of Royal its long-range, high-payload cargo Victorian Aero Club and CM Pacific Pty drone operations, which can be Ltd. a game-changer for industries including perishables, mail, pharma, Dronamics has had a presence e-commerce and mining.
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