Neil Mills, currently Chief Strategy & Planning Officer at airberlin, will take up the new post of Chief Transformation Officer with immediate effect and lead a newly created division which will work across the whole airline to strengthen the overall performance of the company. Neil, an internationally experienced and influential aviation executive, will now address and remedy historic challenges for new core business as target delivering significant efficiency and productivity gains to improve market position on a sustained basis. Neil Mills joined airberlin a year ago. He started his aviation career at easyJet in 1997 and in 2009 became the Chief Financial Officer at Fly Dubai. Neil then assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer at the Indian airline Spice Jet and, as Chief Executive Advisor, played a decisive role in the turnaround of the Philippine Airlines Group.