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Dufour Aerospace Appoints Sascha Hardegger as its new CEO

Swiss-based, Dufour Aero­space, announced this week the appoint­ment of Sascha Hard­eg­ger as Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer, effec­tive from August 1st, reports a press release.

Hard­eg­ger suc­ceeds Thomas Pfam­mat­ter, co-Founder of the com­pa­ny, who has been Dufour’s CEO for sev­en years. Pfam­mat­ter will con­tin­ue to serve as Head of Strat­e­gy as well as a mem­ber of the Board of Direc­tors and remain active­ly involved in the com­pa­ny with his oper­a­tional expe­ri­ence and busi­ness net­work.

Mean­while, Hard­eg­ger pre­vi­ous­ly served as Dufour’s Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer, join­ing the com­pa­ny in 2021. Pre­vi­ous­ly, he had 12 years expe­ri­ence in Heli­copter Emer­gency Med­ical Ser­vices and Search and Res­cue at Swiss Air-Res­cue Rega, a renowned heli­copter res­cue organ­i­sa­tion and air ambu­lance provider. 

As a mem­ber of man­age­ment and Head of Heli­copter Oper­a­tions, Hard­eg­ger led Rega’s inno­va­tions in unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cles and drone pro­grams. He is also a pilot of var­i­ous air­craft.

He com­ment­ed, “In the com­ing months and years we will strength­en ties with our part­ners, ensure mar­ket entry and build up pro­duc­tion. The devel­op­ment and engi­neer­ing that are fun­da­men­tal to our progress will always remain cru­cial to Dufour.”

He added, “I look for­ward to shap­ing and sup­port­ing these process­es as CEO and to work­ing even more close­ly with our employ­ees and stake­hold­ers.”

Pfam­mat­ter remarked, “Sascha has proven to be the leader the com­pa­ny needs for the next phas­es of devel­op­ment, and I am hap­py to sup­port the board and the man­age­ment of Dufour Aero­space in my future strate­gic role.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.dufour.aero

(Top image: Sascha Hard­eg­ger, Thomas Pfam­mat­ter)

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