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Airbus Names McArtor As New U.S. Chief; Medical Issues Force O’Keefe To Resign

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, January 9th, 2014

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Airbus Group on Jan. 6 named Allan McArtor to be the new head of its North American division effective March 1, succeeding Sean O’Keefe who is resigning due to ongoing medical reasons sustained in a plane crash in 2010. McArtor is currently chairman of Airbus Americas, the division of Airbus that represents its commercial aircraft business in North and South America. When he becomes chairman and CEO of Airbus Group, Inc., which is the United States-based division of Europe’s Airbus Group,…

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