Thomas Ruckert has taken over the position as Chief Information Officer of the Lufthansa Group on January 1, 2021. He succeeds Roland Schutz, who left the company at his own request.

Thomas Ruckert joined Lufthansa Technik as a trainee in 1995. Over the past 25 years, the 50-year-old industrial engineer (TU Darmstadt) has held various positions at Lufthansa Technik in Germany, Ireland and the Philippines. Most recently, as Vice President Maintenance Services, he headed Lufthansa Technik's worldwide overhaul network together with two other managers, reporting directly to the company's Executive Board. As spokesman for the Product Division, his responsibilities included all shared services, product development and digitalization.

In the future, Thomas Ruckert will report directly to Christina Foerster, board member of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and responsible for Customer, IT & Corporate Responsibility. In addition to implementing the Lufthansa Group's IT strategy, he is also responsible for IT security, IT infrastructure and coordinating the Lufthansa Group's digitalization projects. Through innovative, fast and flexible information management, Ruckert enables the design of 'Customer Centric Airlines'.

Thomas Ruckert comes from Much (Rhein-Sieg-Kreis).

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