July 15 (Reuters) – European missile maker MBDA said on Wednesday it had appointed Jean-Brice \u200cDumont, Airbus’s head of military aircraft \u200cprogrammes, as chief executive to replace Eric Beranger from November \u200b1. <\/p>\n
The leadership change comes as Europe’s largest missile maker ramps up production to meet surging demand driven by the war in Ukraine and \u200ca wider rearmament \u2060push across the continent. <\/p>\n
MBDA is jointly owned by Airbus, BAE Systems and \u2060Leonardo. <\/p>\n
Dumont has led the Air Power business at Airbus Defence and Space since January 2024, having \u200bpreviously headed \u200bMilitary Air System, \u200bwhere he oversaw programmes \u200cincluding the A400M transport aircraft, Eurofighter combat jet and Eurodrone. <\/p>\n
Before that, he served as Airbus’s executive vice president for engineering, and spent six years as executive vice president for engineering and \u200cchief technical officer at \u200bAirbus Helicopters. <\/p>\n
A licensed French Army \u200baviation pilot, \u200bDumont started his career at France’s \u200cDGA defence procurement agency in \u200b1996, working \u200bon the Tiger and Super Puma helicopter programmes. He is a graduate of Ecole \u200bPolytechnique and \u200cISAE-SUPAERO. <\/p>\n
Beranger has led MBDA since 2019. <\/p>\n
(Reporting by \u200bHugo Lhomedet and Zakarya Meliani in Gdansk. \u200bEditing by Mark Potter) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 15 (Reuters) – European missile maker MBDA said on Wednesday it had appointed Jean-Brice \u200cDumont, Airbus’s head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[20664,90,4226,4031,20666,20665,9465,15492,17573],"class_list":["post-31529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-airbus","tag-air-system","tag-airbus","tag-airbus-defence-and-space","tag-airbus-helicopters","tag-chief-executive","tag-dumont","tag-executive-vice-president","tag-mbda","tag-military-aircraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}