ADB SAFEGATE - Key Persons
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- VP, Apron & Managing Director, Sweden
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- VP, Australia & New Zealand
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- VP, Service, IT Applications & Group Transformation
Erik is Chief Financial Officer at ADB SAFEGATE. He brings 30 years of global experience in business and corporate finance, spanning multiple industries including aerospace, logistics, banking and consulting.
Most recently, Erik was Group CFO at Sonaca Group, an international aerospace company based in Belgium, where he was instrumental to the growth and transformation journey of Sonaca. Before Sonaca, Erik held leadership positions in consulting as a partner in the Brussels office of McKinsey & Company. He has proven experience in strategy development and execution, transformation and restructuring projects, cost management and budget control, and mergers and acquisitions.
Erik graduated in Business Econometrics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is fluent in English and Dutch and speaks German and French.
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- VP, Central & Eastern Europe
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- Chief Operations Officer
- Member of the Management Team
- Global COO / CEO Americas
Joe is Chief Operations Officer for ADB SAFEGATE's global organization and CEO Americas. An airfield lighting industry veteran with decades of experience, Joe is a proven executive in sales, engineering and operations, making him an ideal leader to steer the organization and its people in a transformation journey.
Joe has held multiple positions at ADB SAFEGATE, starting as an Electrical Engineer and quickly moving to Project Engineering Manager where he was responsible for project management of control systems for the North American market. In 1999, he became the Director of Sales and Marketing, which included responsibility for airfield lighting sales in North America and international U.S. military as well as business development, marketing and technical services. Joe's role expanded in 2010 when he added responsibility for Latin America, and in 2013 when he became CEO Americas.
He has an Electrical Engineering Degree from DeVry Institute of Technology and an MBA from Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio.
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- VP, Solutions Engineering
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- Member of the Management Team
- CEO / Laurent
Laurent joined ADB SAFEGATE early 2020, and has over 30 years of leadership and transformation experience gained in healthcare, technology, consulting and energy. Before joining ADB SAFEGATE, Laurent held leadership positions at GE Healthcare, McKinsey & Company, and Texaco. Laurent holds a Master in Economics and a Business Economics.
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- Group Controlling Director
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- VP, Airfield Light & Power
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- Managing Director / Finance Director, Airport Systems
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- VP, Airfield Connected Solutions
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- Executive Vice President
- Executive VP Business Lines & Chief Technology Officer
Thorben is Executive Vice President of the business lines and Chief Technology Officer. Having started his career in RnD for the broadcasting industry, and later for finance software, Thorben developed his first airport software in 1997.
Within ADB SAFEGATE, Thorben started as the technical lead for the smart metering businesses before the acquisition of LUCEBIT by ADB, and then leading ADB operations (project management, system engineering, service and production) for Central & Eastern Europe until the 2016 merger with Safegate when he became head of global service for ADB SAFEGATE. In 2020 he took over responsibility for the Gate business line and later Airport Systems, and in 2023 his role was expanded to all Airfield business lines, the international Weather team and Service to streamline efforts towards Airside 4.0.
Thorben has a master's degree in computer science and a PhD from a data mining and information system chair of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
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- VP Asia & Global Marketing