Jacques Lordon will be appointed on July 1st, 2001 as EADS SOCATA's Vice President of Aircraft Sales, replacing Christophe van den Broek who is leaving the company at the end of June to join the Dassault Falcon Sales Team.

Lordon, age 42, is an aircraft engineer and a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d'Aérotechnique (ENSMA) based in Poitiers, where many top personnel of the French aircraft industry have been trained. Lordon started his career in 1982 at the Prototype design bureau of Dassault Aviation where he worked on the Rafale A jet fighter program. He joined SOCATA in 1985 where he occupied the following positions:

TB and TB 30 Epsilon program manager,
TB 31 Omega, turboprop military trainer program manager,
Customer Services Officer in charge of Customer Support,
and, most recently, as the Vice President in charge of the Aerostructures Department. A position he has occupied since 1997. In this capacity, Lordon's accomplishments included management of the growth of the aerostructures department within EADS SOCATA through implementation of five new subcontracting programs, while simultaneously leading a huge industrial reorganization.

Jacques Lordon holds a private pilot's license.

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