Swiss names new finance chief and adds operations role to management board

Swiss has named a new CFO and is adding a COO to its management board. The Zurich-based carrier said on 5 March that the expansion of the top executive body is “intended to give greater weighting to the company’s core activity”. Dennis Weber, currently head of investor relations at Lufthansa Group, will rise to the CFO post on 1 May, succeeding Markus Binkert, who is leaving the company at the end of that month. The newly-created COO role will be filled, also at the beginning of May, by Oliver Buchhofer, who is currently head of operations at Swiss as well as an Airbus A330 captain. “If we aim and aspire to be Europe’s leading premium airline, we must further strengthen our core activity,” says outgoing CE Dieter Vranckx. “Our daily operations are the heart of our company, and the stability of these is crucial to our customers. So we need to give these operations greater weighting within our overall executive management.”<br/>