Marco Sansavini has been appointed as the new Chairman and CEO of Vueling, a company he has joined to replace Javier Sánchez Prieto (the new Chairman and CEO of Iberia).
This same Tuesday, the until now president and CEO of Iberia, Luis Gallego, has been elected CEO of IAG to replace Willie Walsh, after obtaining the approval of the group’s general meeting of shareholders.
This appointment, originally scheduled for March 26, was postponed along with the general meeting of shareholders as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Walsh has considered it “gratifying” that the internal succession plans “have paid off once again” with Prieto taking over from Gallego at the head of Iberia, as well as with Sansavini leading Vueling, and Walsh is convinced that “they are the right people to their new posts.”
Biography
Born in Bologna (Italy), Marco Sansavini has more than 25 years of experience in the air transport sector, where he was now commercial director of Iberia.
He has a degree in Economics from the University of Bologna and a Master’s in Business Administration from IMD (Lausanne), the airline has reported.
Sansavini has been Iberia’s commercial director since the end of 2012, leading the Revenue Management, Marketing, Digital, Sales and Distribution areas and contributing to the company’s global modernization and transformation process.
international trajectory
Before his time in Madrid, he had worked in other countries, starting with Italy, and his career led him to live in various European cities, such as Milan, Rome, Zurich, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid and, now, Barcelona.
His career in aviation began in 1995 when he joined the KLM management team and held different positions until 2004.
After the merger of KLM and Air France, he moved to Paris, where in 2005 he participated in the creation of the first integrated commercial unit in that company, becoming commercial director in Europe and North Africa and vice president of Global Business.
In 2009 he joined Alitalia as Director of Sales and Distribution, and ended up as Director of Strategy and Network, a position he held until joining Iberia eight years ago.
He has a wife and three children, and his hobbies include two sports: tennis and basketball.
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