Ashwin Bhat new member of the Board of Directors of Swiss
Ashwin Bhat, Chief Commercial Officer at Lufthansa Cargo, was elected to the Swiss Board of Directors at Thursday’s Annual General Meeting. He succeeds Christina Foerster, who remains a member of the Lufthansa Group Executive Board and also serves as interim CEO of Brussels Airlines.
There will be a change on the Board of Directors of Swiss International Air Lines. Ashwin Bhat, Chief Commercial Officer at Lufthansa Cargo, was newly elected to the Swiss Board of Directors at Thursday's Annual General Meeting. He replaces Christina Foerster, who has stepped down from the Swiss Board of Directors. She continues to serve on the Lufthansa Group board and is also ad-interim CEO of Brussels Airlines.
The new Board member Ashwin Bhat has been Chief Commercial Officer at Lufthansa Cargo since March 2021. There, he is responsible for the global external organization for sales and handling, product, revenue management, pricing, network planning, sales management and platform management of Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings. Previously, Bhat led Swiss WorldCargo, Swiss' cargo division in Zurich, as Vice President and Head of Cargo from October 2015. He joined what was then Swisscargo in February 1999 and progressed through various management positions, including revenue and transport management and global area management. With a degree in chemistry, he began his career in 1992 as Cargo & Mail Revenue Accounting Manager at Airline Financial Support Services in Mumbai.
"Ashwin Bhat enjoys high recognition for his profound know-how, especially in the global cargo business, which is important for Swiss," said Reto Francioni, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Swiss. "With him, we are also rounding out the areas of expertise on the Board of Directors in a strategically sensible way."
The Board of Directors of Swiss now consists of Chairman Reto Francioni, Doris Russi Schurter, André Blattmann, Remco Steenbergen and new member Ashwin Bhat.
