Baruch (Bary) Mevorach is now corporate VP for planning and strategy at Israel Aerospace Industries. He joined IAI in 1972 and was most recently deputy VP and assistant to president Itzhak Nissan.
At Ruag, Lukas Braunschweiler will succeed Toni Wicki as chief executive. Al Haase, former TMC Aerospace chief executive, will take the same job at AGC Composites.
At Alaska Air Group, chief financial officer Brad Tilden is now president, VP customer service and engineering Glenn Johnson replaces Tilden, and Seattle operations VP Ben Minicucci is now chief operating officer.
Former Grob managing director Claude Chidiac is now VP business aviation business development at Standard Aero in Tempe, Arizona. NASA deputy administrator Shana Dale will resign, effective from 17 January, in advance of the presidential inauguration.
Orazio Ragni will replace Luca Zacchetti as chief executive at Cinven- and Finmeccanica-owned Avio.
Former Boeing India president Anil Shrikhande is now president of Rolls-Royce India. Air Commodore Mark Swan will take over as UK Civil Aviation Authority director of airspace policy on 1 March 2009.
Source: Flight International