GOL announces CEO change: Ferrer moves to Boeing and Fehlauer takes over
André Fehlauer vai substituir Celso Ferrer como CEO da Gol a partir de setembro, uma troca de comando num momento em que a companhia aérea busca voltar a crescer depois de emergir de sua recuperação judicial e incorporação pelo Abra Group – a holding dos Constantino com os donos da Avianca. Ferrer – que estava […] The post GOL troca CEO: Ferrer vai para a Boeing e Fehlauer assume appeared first…
André Fehlauer will replace Celso Ferrer as CEO of Gol starting in September, a change in command at a time when the airline is seeking to grow again after emerging from its judicial recovery and incorporation by Abra Group – the holding company of the Constantino family with the owners of Avianca.
Ferrer, who has been at Gol for over 20 years, and as CEO since 2022, will now head Boeing's operation in Latin America, a commercial position in which he will continue to have an interface with the region's airlines.
Fehlauer, the current CEO of Livelo, is returning to the Constantino group, where he worked for eight years at Smiles, including the last three years (2019-2021) as CEO of Gol's loyalty program.
He also opened the company's office in Argentina.
After the incorporation of Smiles by Gol, Fehlauer took over Livelo, the points and miles JV of Bradesco and BB, where he has been since 2021.
Before that, he worked at Credicard and Citibank.
Fehlauer has a head for innovation and product.
“He's a nonconformist guy, focused on the customer,” an executive who worked with him told Brazil Journal.
The Abra Group said that Fehlauer's arrival will contribute to “strengthening its institutional relationships while keeping customers at the center of decisions”, “as we begin a new stage of growth.”
In other words, now that the company has regained a certain level of stability, the executive will have to make sales take off.
In July, Abra postponed its plans to go public in the US due to market volatility and high fuel prices, but said it remained in contact with investors.
The holding company reported revenue of $2.7 billion in the first quarter of this year, 16% more than in the same period last year.
As Ferrer leaves for Boeing, he joined Gol in 2004 as a trainee and climbed the organizational chart to reach the position of VP of operations in 2019, under the management of Paulo Kakinoff.
During his time at the airline, Ferrer also became a commercial pilot and commanded Gol's Boeing 737 fleet, winning over the Constantino family.
When Kakinoff left the company in 2022, his protégé took over a already weakened business and had to undergo a judicial recovery.
Ferrer led the entire process, the delisting and the incorporation of the company by Abra.
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