{"id":8682,"date":"2026-09-02T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/8682\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:01:23","slug":"stefano-villanti-appointed-managing-director-of-leonardo-helicopters-milmag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/8682\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefano Villanti appointed Managing Director of Leonardo Helicopters \u2013 MILMAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0Tuesday, September 1, 2026, Italian aerospace and defense group Leonardo announced that, effective immediately, Stefano Villanti has been appointed Managing Director of its helicopter subsidiary, Leonardo Helicopters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-214815 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Stefano-Villanti-MD-Leonardo-Helicopters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1754\"  \/>Photo: Leonardo<\/p>\n<p>Stefano Villanti brings extensive experience in\u00a0Leonardo\u2019s helicopter business, having held senior positions at\u00a0Leonardo Helicopters over the past ten years, including leading sales, marketing and contracts for the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>As Managing Director, Stefano Villanti will ensure that Leonardo Helicopters remains focused on\u00a0its key objectives: delivering on\u00a0commitments to\u00a0customers, advancing the helicopter division\u2019s industrial strategy and achieving its growth targets.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo Mariani, CEO and General Manager of Leonardo said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRotorcraft technology, with its unique performance, versatility and capability features, continues to\u00a0provide an invaluable contribution across all defence, public service and civil markets. We\u00a0are committed to\u00a0further strengthening this strategic area of business, increasingly benefitting from synergies across our entire organisation. This will allow us to\u00a0rapidly understand, adapt to\u00a0and respond to\u00a0evolving requirements, anticipating new trends both in\u00a0terms of innovation and operational needs. I\u00a0wish Stefano Villanti, in\u00a0his new role, and his team continued success to\u00a0achieve further growth and new global competitiveness objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stefano Villanti said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeonardo is a\u00a0major global player in\u00a0the rotorcraft industry \u2014\u00a0a\u00a0sector that, like much of the wider Aerospace, Defence and Security landscape, is navigating a\u00a0period of considerable change. This environment calls for a\u00a0balanced approach: continuity in\u00a0execution and performance, combined with a\u00a0careful assessment of longer-term priorities and the opportunities most valuable to\u00a0maintaining and strengthening Leonardo\u2019s competitiveness. With customers at\u00a0the centre of everything we\u00a0do, we\u00a0will place acceleration in\u00a0execution and innovation at\u00a0the core of how we\u00a0work, while continuing to\u00a0enhance quality. We\u00a0are fully committed to\u00a0delivering on\u00a0these priorities, drawing on\u00a0the expertise, dedication and enthusiasm of everyone across the Division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leonardo.com\/en\/press-release-detail\/-\/detail\/01-09-2026-stefano-villanti-appointed-managing-director-of-leonardo-helicopters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On\u00a0Tuesday, September 1, 2026, Italian aerospace and defense group Leonardo announced that, effective immediately, Stefano Villanti has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-8682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-defence-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}