Boards of Lufthansa Technik
Steering the company
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Johannes Bussmann
Dr. Johannes Bussmann has been a member of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik since September 2012, and Chief Executive Officer since April 2015.
From 1 January 2021, Bussmann heads also the new Executive Board department of Finance and Human Resources on a provisional basis. The transitional arrangement will apply until a new head of the department is appointed.
Bussmann began his career in 1998 as a product engineer at ABB Mannheim. In 1999, he moved to Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg to work as a development engineer in the Product Management and Development department. In 2001, he became Sales Manager for Asia and Australia, working initially from the company's headquarters in Hamburg and, beginning in 2003, from Singapore. He was appointed Vice President Marketing and Sales in 2005 and Senior Vice President Component Services in 2007 before becoming Senior Vice President Engine Services in 2011.
Bussmann has a diploma degree in aerospace engineering and a doctorate in engineering with a focus on combustion engineering, both from the University of Aachen.
Chief Executive Technical Operations, Logistics & IT
Soeren Stark
Soeren Stark has been a member of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik since January 2019 and is responsible for Technical Operations, Logistics & IT. He is the "Accountable Manager" within the meaning EASA Part 145, Part 21/G and Part M.
After graduation, Stark worked as management consultant and project manager at Icarus Consulting GmbH, Frankfurt. From 1998 to 2001 he served in various positions at SCHOTT Glaswerke in Mainz. 2001, Stark joined the Lufthansa Group as Operations Manager in the Flight Service department of LSG Sky Chefs at Frankfurt Airport. Between 2004 and 2010 he was Managing Director of Lufthansa Technik Logistics GmbH in Hamburg. Stark headed the Base Maintenance Division as Senior Vice President since 2011. In April 2016, he was appointed as member of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Cargo AG.
Stark studied Industrial Engineering with focus on logistics and material handlings in Berlin and Paris.
Supervisory Board
The supervisory board of Lufthansa Technik AG consists of 16 members.
Chairman is Dr. Detlef Kayser, Head of Airline Resources & Operations Standards Department in the Executive Board of Lufthansa Group.
- Dr. Detlef Kayser, Chairman
- Dorothea von Boxberg
- Dr. Roland Busch
- August W. Henningsen
- Dr. Myriam Meyer Stutz
- Doreen Nowotne
- Dr. William Willms
- Dr. Stephan Zilles
- Frank Hartstein, Deputy Chairman
- Birgit Heyer
- Holger Moll-Ritter von Sporschill
- Domenico Perroni
- Kai-Stefan Roepke
- Thorsten Schmidt
- Karin van Hall
- Mia Sophie Witzig
