Company Veteran Named Airbus Sales Chief After Ex-Rolls Executive Quits

Company Veteran Named Airbus Sales Chief After Ex-Rolls Executive Quits
Rolls-Royce's President of Civil Large Engines Eric Schulz, seen after a signing ceremony at the 50th Paris Air Show, at the Le Bourget airport near Paris, France, June 19, 2013. Reuters/Pascal Rossignol
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PARIS—Airbus named its second new sales chief in less than a year on Sept. 13 after chief commercial officer Eric Schulz abruptly resigned nine months after being poached from Rolls-Royce to lead the battle for jet sales against Boeing.

The European planemaker said Christian Scherer, head of turboprop maker ATR and an Airbus veteran who had been beaten to the job by Schulz in November last year, would take over the position immediately, reporting to Chief Executive Tom Enders.