steering the company

Soeren Stark has been a member of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik AG since January 2019. After initially taking charge of the Technical Operations & Logistics divisions, he took over the position of Chief Executive Officer on July 1, 2022. Before transferring to Lufthansa Technik, Soeren Stark managed the Executive Board division Operations at Lufthansa Cargo. 

After his graduation, Soeren Stark first worked as a project manager at ICARUS Consulting GmbH in Frankfurt. In 1998 he became a project manager for Logistics Planning at Schott Glaswerke in Mainz where he then served as project manager Supply Chain Management in the industrial glass business unit. In the same year, Soeren Stark became the Head of Logistics in this business unit.

In 2001, Soeren Stark joined the Lufthansa Group as Operations Manager of the Flight Service division Lufthansa Group of the LSG Sky Chefs at the Frankfurt Airport. From 2004 to 2010 he was the Managing Director of Lufthansa Technik Logistics in Hamburg before he became the Aircraft Overhaul Manager of Lufthansa Technik AG in January 2011.

The graduate industrial engineer was born on January 12, 1967 and studied Logistics and Material Flow Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Paris.  

Dr. Christian Leifeld has been a member of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik AG since May 2025.  As Chief Finance Officer, he is responsible for Controlling, Corporate Purchasing, Finance & Accounting, and MRO Infrastructure Services. He is also responsible for the Digital Fleet Services Division.

Dr. Christian Leifeld joined the Lufthansa Group in May 2023 and has been the group-wide Head of Controlling and Risk Management. His focus there is on strengthening performance-oriented business management, improving investment and cash flow planning and digitalizing controlling. In addition, the 47-year-old financial analyst with a doctorate in economics is currently in charge of an efficiency program for the Lufthansa Group's administrative functions, processes, and costs.

His professional career began in 2003 at the management consultancy McKinsey. After founding and serving as CFO of the InterNations start-up (now part of New Work SE), Dr. Christian Leifeld joined the E.ON Group in 2009, where he first held several management positions in finance. In 2017, he took charge of corporate planning and thereafter, for a short time, the Group Controlling, Accounting & Risk division before becoming CFO of E.ON in the Czech Republic from 2020 to 2023, where he was responsible for the network infrastructure and sales business with around 4,000 employees.