Juan-Carlos Martinez Saiz

Juan-Carlos Martinez Saiz was appointed Executive Vice President, Military Programmes in July 2005.
As such, he is in charge of the A400M programme as well as all Airbus military derivative aircraft.
Prior to this he was in charge of managing Airbus’ participation in the A400M programme as well as being the programme’s Head of Development.
Mr Martinez Saiz is now also a member of the Airbus Executive Committee.
Mr Martinez Saiz began his professional career in the Cadiz plant of CASA (now EADS CASA) in 1985.
Four years later, CASA appointed him as its representative to work initially with McDonnell Douglas on the MD-11 aircraft programme in Long Beach, California and subsequently, still representing CASA, with Northrop and Boeing in different collaborative programmes.
Overall, Mr Martinez Saiz worked for six years in the US.
At the end of 1994, Mr Martinez Saiz returned to Spain, and was CASA's A320 Family Programme Manager in Madrid, in charge of all aircraft components for which CASA had responsibility, including the horizontal tail-plane (HTP).
Three years later he became CASA's Programme Director for Airbus' A330/A340 Programme and oversaw the development of the A340-500/-600s’ Horizontal Tail Plane.
Mr Martinez Saiz moved to Toulouse in 2000 to manage Airbus' participation in the A400M military transport aircraft and within three years he had been promoted to the programme's Head of Development.
In this capacity he was responsible for the Aircraft Development Teams that design and produce the major aircraft components and for setting up the A400M Final Assembly Line.
Juan-Carlos Martinez Saiz was born in Madrid, Spain in June 1961.
Mr Martinez Saiz graduated from the Polytechnic University of Madrid with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1984 before obtaining further degrees in International Business Management from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1993 and in Economics at the University of Madrid (UNED) in 2001.