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Executive Biographies
| Filippo Bagnato | Chief Executive Officer |
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Filippo BAGNATO respectively achieved his Aeronautical and Aerospace Degrees in 1971 and 1973, at the Politecnico of Turin. After two years in the United States, at Boeing's facilities, he was the assistant to Aeritalia's Industrial Engineering Director. In 1976 he supervised a project for the development of the Company's information systems and became Director of Program Planning and Control of Aeritalia's plants in 1978. Then he was assigned Head of Aeritalia's Space Facility in Turin, in 1981. In 1987 he was appointed Director for Programs of the Military Aircraft Division of Aeritalia before he was asked to head the Military Aircraft Division of Alenia, until 1994. He was appointed Senior Vice President of Alenia's Technology Development Activities and New Programs and then, he became Head of Alenia's Aeronautics Division in 1996. |
When the Division was transformed into a Company, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Alenia Aeronautica Company. He was also Chairman of the Board of LMATTS (Lockheed Martin Alenia Tactical Transport Systems), Deputy Chairman of Aerrnacchi and Director of Eurofighter GMBH consortium, Eurofighter International.
In September 2002, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Eurofighter GMBH in Munich.
He was administrator within the ATR Management Board from 1996 to 2001 and Chairman of the said Management Board in 1996, 1998, and 2000. From June 2001 to June 2002, he was one of the Alenia Aeronautica's representatives of the Members Assembly of ATR.
From June 1st 2004 to September 2007, he was named Chief Executive Officer of ATR.
As of October 1st 2007 he is appointed Executive Vice President of the Technical, Industrial and Commercial Development Central Department of Finmeccanica.
- Filippo Bagnato was born in Torino in 1948.
- He is married with one daughter.
| Eric Baravian | Senior Vice President Finance & CFO |
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Eric Baravian graduated in Aeronautical Engineering from the French National Institute of Civil Aviation (ENAC) in June 1994. He started with Airbus in June 1996, as a Senior Analyst in Customer Marketing, a member of the sales force travelling around the globe. As part of his experience in Sales, he spent 8 months at the Beijing sales office of Airbus in China. In August 2000, he moved to Finance, in charge of risk analysis and pricing of Sales Financing. He then took responsibility of the team, as Sales Financing Controller in 2002. In April 2004, he was appointed Executive Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer of Airbus. In June 2005, he took the position of Head of Finance for Diversification Program at Airbus. This program encompasses various civil and military industrial activities such as ATR wings, Hawker jet wing and fuse, Eurofighter shells, Air Inlet Cowls, and Transall. In June 2007, he took the responsibility of setting up the Finance team, organization and systems for Airbus Final Assembly Line in Tianjin, China. Additionally to his role in Airbus Diversification Program, he became Chief Financial Officer of EADS ATR in May 2008. As of July 1st, 2010, Eric Baravian is appointed Chief Financial Officer of ATR.
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| Jean-Pierre Cousserans | Senior Vice-President Customer Services |
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Jean-Pierre Cousserans graduated in Aeronautical Engineering from the French National Institute of Civil Aviation (ENAC) in June 1990. He started with Aerospatiale (today EADS) by working on reliability analysis and continued airworthiness within the Engineering Department of ATR Product Support. In February 1994, he was appointed Assistant to the Senior Vice-President Product Support of ATR, particularly in charge of organizational issues. During this period, he was involved in setting up the Customer Services Organization of the newly formed AI(R) Aero International (Regional). He moved to the Spares Support Department of AI(R) in September 1996, to become Director of Spares Distribution covering ATR, Jetstream and Avro related activities. In October 1997, he was appointed Director of Spares Provisioning and Inventory Control of AI(R) and subsequently of ATR after July 1998. In addition, in October 1999, Jean-Pierre Cousserans took charge of the Spares Repair & Overhaul Department of ATR. In June 1st 2001, he was appointed in the position of General Secretary within the new ATR organization. He was then particularly involved in implementing a complete re-engineering of the main processes of ATR. At the end of 2003 he joined Airbus Customers Services as Business Development Director. As of October 1st, 2004, Jean-Pierre Cousserans is appointed Senior Vice-President Customer Services of ATR.
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| Jacques Desbarats | Senior Vice-President Commercial |
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Jacques Desbarats is qualified with a Doctorate in Atomic and Nuclear Physics from the University of Toulouse in 1970, and started his career with Aerospatiale in February 1972 in the Aerodynamic Department of the Design Office. He moved to Aerospatiale's Commercial Department in 1978 as responsible for negotiation and management of Concorde and Epsilon Aircraft contracts. He then moved on to the Commercial Directorate of ATR in 1982, taking on the responsibility of Aircraft Contracts Management, and of Aircraft Deliveries. In 1990 he became responsible for the management of Head-lease and Sub-lease Contracts, and of a newly created division for Second-Hand Aircraft Acceptance within the Contracts & Sales Finance Directorate, in respect of ATR's aircraft portfolio. In 1996 he instigated, and created, the "Asset Management" Business Unit of AI(R), a then newly formed joint venture, and was appointed Vice President Asset Management. On dissolution of AI(R), he became ATR's Executive Vice President Asset Management. After being appointed Deputy SVP Asset Management & Support Commercial in 1999 he was promoted as Vice President Contracts & Asset Management under a reorganised management structure at ATR, in June 2001. In July 2005 he was appointed Senior Vice President Contracts & Asset Management. Jacques Desbarats is now ATR's Senior Vice President Commercial, a position he took on in June 2007. His responsibilities extend to the negotiation and management of ATR's commercial relations with customers worldwide.
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| Xavier Lambert | ATR Human Resources |
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Xavier Lambert graduated from the Bordeaux Institute for Political Studies. He started with Lagardère Group in 1998 as HR marketing manager, where he was in charge of the development of the employer brand (press, internet). He then joined the Aerospatiale Matra Headquarters in 1999 with the same HR marketing functions. In 2000, he moved to the satellites manufacturer Astrium, where he spent four years as HR Advisor, then HR Development manager. In 2006, he joined the Corporate Compensation & benefits department in EADS Headquarters, where he was in charge of Executive contracts, salary benchmark, Long term incentives. He has been appointed as ATR Head of Human Resources as of 1st November 2008.
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| Luigi Lombardi | Senior Vice President Operations |
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Luigi Lombardi graduated in Aeronautical Engineering Degree, with full honors, from the Politecnico of Naples in 1981. After an experience as Philips’ Audio and Video systems Area Manager, he joined the aerospace industry in 1982 with Aeritalia (Alenia in 1990), where he started as Aircraft Systems Technician on the programs G222 and ATR. In 1985, he was appointed Aeritalia Quality Control Representative on the ATR program and was based at Aérospatiale (Toulouse). In 1988, he was appointed Quality Control Manager in the Capodichino plant (Italy), where he worked on the G222, ATR and B707 tanker transformation programs. Two years later, he was appointed Production Director in Capodichino, and headed the Aircraft transformation programs: DC 8 Cargo, B707 Tanker, and ATR ”Nervure 2”. His career progressed in 1993, when he was appointed Director of Manufacturing at the Dee Howard Company in San Antonio Texas (USA). Back in Italy, in the middle of 1994 he was appointed Head of the Casoria facility of Alenia Aerospazio, involved in the production of small sheet metal parts and Structural assembling. In 1996, he was appointed Head of Nola 1, and Nola 2 Facilities, a brand new highly automated facility. The Nola facility is involved in manufacturing (machined parts and large skins) and assembling (open aeronautical structures), and employs approximately 850 persons. Luigi Lombardi headed the plant through an intense setting phase and an industrial ramp up, bringing it to the full production rates. In the new ATR organization, as of June 1st 2001, he is appointed Senior Vice-President Operations.
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| Aldo Mucciardi | Secretary General |
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Aldo Mucciardi graduated in Aeronautical Constructions at the Enrico Fermi Institute of Naples in 1970. He started his studies the Commercial and Economic studies department at the University of Naples, and in 1973 joined Aeritalia. He began working in the military aircraft commercial area in Turin. In 1976, he left Italy for Seattle. He spent two years in Boeing essentially working on a joint business planning aimed to support the B767 aircraft launch decision process and the relevant partnership contractual scheme definition. In 1978, he was appointed New Business Financial Evaluation Manager of Aeritalia in Naples. He was part of the Aeritalia/Aerospatiale team in charge of defining the contractual relationship GIE/Partners since the onset of the ATR Program. In 1985, as Director, he was entrusted charge of Business Planning, always in Naples, while he retained the responsibility of international co-operations (business aspects of joint ventures and partnerships). During this period, he strictly worked with ATR and Aérospatiale for improving the contractual relations and the ATR financial performances as well. After one year as Commercial Director of Aeronavali (Venice), with the setting up of Alenia, at end 1991, he was called in Rome to take responsibility of the Alenia Aircraft Division Financial Controlling. In 1994, he moved to Turin as Director of Planning and Control of Military Programs. He joined ATR at beginning of 1996, as vice-president, assuming various responsibilities as of June 2005, such as Logistics, Controlling, Contracts Administration and Asset Management. In July 2005, the Board of Directors appointed Aldo Mucciardi as the General Secretary of ATR.
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| Frédéric Torrea | General Counsel |
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Frédéric Torrea holds a Masters in Business Law (DEA en Droit des Affaires) from the Toulouse Law University and a Masters in Political Science with an emphasis on economy and finance from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Toulouse. In 1991, he was hired as lawyer by Aerospatiale - Systems and Services - and, after three years, took responsibility of the Cooperation Department in this business unit. In 1996, Frédéric Torrea joined WorldSpace Inc., a company operating a digital radio broadcasting satellite system, first as lawyer at the company’s headquarters in Washington D.C., then as President of WorldSpace France, the French subsidiary of WorldSpace Inc. Frédéric Torrea re-joined the Airbus group at the end of 2001 as Senior Lawyer for Airbus S.A.S., mainly acting as counsel for aircraft-related procurement activities covering various practice areas such as contracts law and intellectual property law. As from the end of 2006, he took responsibility of the Airbus Procurement Contracts Department consisting of contract specialists negotiating the main procurement agreements and mastering contractual risks. In February 2009, Frédéric Torrea was appointed as ATR General Counsel and also is the company’s Export Control Officer and International Compliance Officer. Frédéric Torrea was born in 1964 in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France. |
| Giovanni Tramparulo | Senior Vice-President Finance (CFO) |
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Giovanni Tramparulo is graduated cum laude in Economics from the University of Naples - Facoltà di Economia e Commercio - with business studies at Ecole Supérieure de Commerce et d'Administration in Lausanne, Swizerland. He started his career in the aeronautical industry in 1985 at the Treasury Department of Aeritalia in Naples with the responsibility of managing foreign currencies and moved in 1988 to the Headquarters of Alenia in Rome where he was responsible for Export Finance and Special Projects covering military and civil aircraft worldwide for all the divisions. In 1992 he moved to ATR where he has been responsible of sales financing for number of airlines in Europe, USA and Middle East. In 1997 he took the responsibility of the Department of Sales Financing at ATR and subsequently took over the responsibilities related to Credit Management and Risk Management. He is a lecturer for finance and aircraft sales financing with the Faculty of Aeronautics of the University of Rome which has developed a Master in Air Transport for the benefit of engineers working in the aviation industry. In June 2007 Giovanni Tramparulo has been appointed in the position of Senior Vice President Finance & CFO.
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