Finmeccanica Appoints New U.K. Chairman
Italian defense group Finmeccanica said July 2 it had appointed Sir Kevin Tebbit as chairman of Finmeccanica UK.
Tebbit will join Finmeccanica UK Chief Executive Alberto de Benedictis in managing the Finmeccanica group’s activities in the United Kingdom, where it employs 9,000 staff and has sales of more than 1.8 billion pounds ($3.6 billion).
Until 2005, Tebbit worked for seven years as a permanent secretary to the British Ministry of Defence, working as principal policy adviser to ministers, Finmeccanica said in a statement.
He has also held a number of positions at the Foreign and Commonwealth office, including deputy undersecretary of state overseeing foreign policy aspects of defense, security and intelligence, as well as working with NATO and the British intelligence services. He is a nonexecutive director of Smiths Group.
Tebbit is the latest of several British citizens to be hired by Finmeccanica for senior U.K. management positions.
Former BAE Systems executive Steve Mogford was hired in April to run Finmeccanica’s Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems unit.
Last September, Lord Bach, the former British defense procurement minister, was appointed nonexecutive chairman of Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems. In April 2006, Finmeccanica hired former Royal Air Force strike command chief Sir Brian Burridge as its senior strategic marketing adviser in the U.K. –>
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