Jens Franzeck

Dr. Jens Franzeck started his career in 1995 in the Passenger Car Advanced Studies department of Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart, Germany, as a research and development engineer on the newly created range of small-to-medium vehicles. He participated in international research co-operations with MIT in Boston/USA and ETH Zurich. Following the Corporate International Management Development Programme, he joined in 1998 DASA, the Aerospace Division of Daimler-Benz Group, as Senior Manager. In 2000, he was part of the Merger Integration team to create EADS. From 2002 onwards, he moved into Airbus, the Civil Aircraft Division, and held international management positions as Vice President in Procurement, Programmes and Operations. In 2009, Jens Franzeck joined Astrium, the Space division of EADS, as Vice President in charge of the Ariane 5 Exploitation Programme in Les Mureaux, France. In 2014, he moved into Airbus Defence and Space being accountable for Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration and Testing (M-AIT) in the Space part of the division. In Defence, he then oversaw A400M Operations in Bremen and Seville, Spain, executing a carve-out of the activity as well as an industrial turnaround to achieve a steep production ramp-up. In 2017, Jens Franzeck took over the responsibility of Engineering Integration as a Senior Vice President and became Head of Physical Design for all programmes of Airbus Defence and Space in 2020. Jens Franzeck, 57 years old, holds an Industrial Engineering degree of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Process Engineering of Stuttgart University. He is an Alumni of the German National Fellowship Foundation.