Safran : Jorge Ortega is appointed CEO of Safran Cabin
November 23, 2021 at 03:09 am EST
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Effective December 1st, 2022, Jorge Ortega is appointed Chief Executive Officer of Safran Cabin and becomes a member of the Group's Executive Committee. He succeeds Norman Jordan who has decided to give a new orientation to his career. The Group warmly thanks him for his strong contribution to Safran's development between 2000 and 2010 and for leading the ex-Zodiac Aerospace integration since 2017 as CEO of Safran Cabin.
After having held different management responsibilities in Westinghouse Corporation, Jorge Ortega joined Labinal* in 1993 as Programme manager and then Operations manager. In 2000, he was promoted to President of Labinal Mexico and managed the business development and growth of the Chihuahua sites. In December 2006, Jorge Ortega was appointed Managing Director of the North America wiring systems activities and then, in 2011, North America Wiring and Services Division Managing Director, following the integration of the Services activities into Division. As such, he is in charge of all the wiring systems activities in North America and is General Manager of Interconnection Systems Americas (ISA) within Safran Electrical & Power.
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Safran is a high technology international group, a leading equipment provider in the Aerospace and Defense markets. The group specializes in the design, manufacturing, and marketing of equipment and systems of high technology mechanical and electronic equipment. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- aeronautic and space propulsion systems (51.2%): helicopter motors (No. 1 worldwide), civil and military airplanes motors, systems for space lancers and missiles, turboreactors for drone targets, etc.;
- aircraft equipment, defense systems and aerosystems (38%): airplane engine pods, landing gear, braking systems, electric wiring systems, etc. Safran also offers on board aircraft systems and equipment (primarily evacuation slides, emergency arresting systems, protective parachutes and oxygen systems, electrical power management systems, control systems, water and waste management systems and connectivity systems) and defense and security systems (helicopter flight controls, fingerprint-based biometric identification systems (No. 1 worldwide), inertial systems, optronic systems, tactical drone systems, etc.);
- aircraft interiors (10.7%): cabin interiors and seats;
- other (0.1%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (19.4%), Europe (24%), the Americas (34.8%), Asia and Oceania (13.2%), Africa and the Middle East (8.6%).
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