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Hannes Müller is the Managing Director of Lufthansa Consulting and brings over 25 years of aviation industry experience to his client engagements. He has a background in aviation management (Luftverkehrskaufmann) and gained his experience within the Lufthansa Group in roles of increasing management responsibility in fleet & network planning, business development and corporate strategy.

His key areas of expertise include strategy, restructuring, network & fleet, mobility innovations, partnership-models between airline/airport, commercial, infrastructure and business analytics.

He aims to further grow the Lufthansa Group’s aviation-focused management consulting business internally within the Group and also externally as part of the global competitive market.

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Bernd Knabe is one of the authorized signatories at Lufthansa Consulting based in Frankfurt. He is responsible for the administrative processes in finance, controlling, legal and IT-Management. He has worked in the Lufthansa Group in different business areas and units for more than 30 years.

His experience includes projects for clients in different administrative processes and tasks, e.g. reporting, controlling and finance, and data protection. In addition, he performs the task of compliance manager for Lufthansa Consulting.

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Christine Weigner is a professional in the aviation industry with over 25 years of experience. After graduating from university with a focus on tourism, economics and law, she began her career as a management consultant at Lufthansa Consulting.

She worked in various projects worldwide, focusing on restructuring, re-organizing, and optimizing airline and airport performance. Christine held the position of CCO at an airline start up and set up the commercial unit, processes, applications and competences.

Since 2015, she has led the entire in-house consulting business within the LH Group. She steers the Solution Groups at Lufthansa Consulting, drives digital innovation and develops the non-aviation business dedicated to improving overall efficiency and effectiveness.

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Ronald Schulz has a wealth of experience in the aviation industry, having spent over 30 years working for Lufthansa Group. Mr. Schulz began his career with the company in 1990 as a sales representative and worked his way up through various management positions in Europe and Southeast-Asia. As Senior Director for the Lufthansa Group Airlines in the CIS countries, he was responsible for the commercial activities of Austrian Airlines, Brussels, Eurowings, Lufthansa and Swiss.

From 2016 he was Head of the Lufthansa Group Representative Office for the CIS, responsible for all external and government affairs on behalf of Lufthansa Group in this region. In 2021 he was appointed Senior Partner and Head of Market Global for Lufthansa Consulting, where he oversees the development of the company’s global sales.

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Alexander Manakos is one of the Partners at Lufthansa Consulting and he is responsible for business development in the Middle East region. He has more than 20 years of experience in aviation.

While the air cargo business was his starting point in the aviation industry, he has been focusing on strategy and business planning, as well as on performance improvement projects for international airline and airport clients for several years. Besides his long-term assignments in the USA, Egypt and the UAE, his project experience in the Middle East includes Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia.

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Stanislav Solomko has more than 25 years of managerial airline and consulting experience. Building on his first job at Delta Air Lines and business administration studies in the USA, he joined Canadian Airlines in Calgary in 1997. In 2000 he joined the Air Canada management team. Stanislav taught Airline Marketing at the Concordia University and was published in the Journal of Air Transport Management.

Upon joining Lufthansa Consulting in 2005, Mr. Solomko developed the network and fleet planning practice working on projects with various international passenger and cargo airlines. As Head of Market CIS & Baltic States, he leads the regional market team where the client focus often lies in privatization projects.

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Askhat Torshin is Permanent Representative for Lufthansa Consulting in the CIS region and legal advisor, having joined the company in 2009. He specializes in aviation legislation and regulation reform, privatization and PPP arrangements of aviation assets for governments and potential investors, as well as infrastructural planning of aviation facilities and master plans.

Mr. Torshin obtained his LL.B. degree from the Kazakh State University and has attended several professional development training courses. He completed the IATA Training and Development Institute program, which led to a Diploma in Air Law in 2009.

Born in Kazakhstan, Mr. Torshin is fluent in both Russian and English.

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Dr. Axel Schauenburg is Associate Partner at Lufthansa Consulting based in Frankfurt. He heads the Solution Group Maintenance and Engineering and is responsible for all technical topics at Lufthansa Consulting. He has been working in aviation for more than 20 years, focusing on fleet management, cost and performance optimization in component, engine and airframe maintenance.

His experience includes major component programs with airlines, airline groups and aircraft manufacturers. He holds two aerospace engineering degrees, a degree in Engineering from the Technical University of Munich and a Doctorate degree from RMIT University and Airbus Helicopters.

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Georg Baust is Associate Partner based in Frankfurt. He is an expert in commercial operations for airlines and digital business transformation.

In his projects, he has worked together with clients to help them improve their commercial operations and has also steered large post-merger integration processes in aviation. He has more than 14 years experience in consulting projects and in the aviation industry. He heads the Sales and Revenue Solution Group at Lufthansa Consulting.

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Peter Belinskiy is Partner at Lufthansa Consulting based in Frankfurt. He has worked in the aviation and consulting business for over 25 years specializing in transition and optimization projects, strategy development and organizational redesign.

His experience includes the management of numerous projects at national and international airlines as well as affiliated industries like airports and authorities. In his position as Head of Market LH Group he is responsible for all sales and project activities within the Lufthansa Group with its associated airlines and business areas.

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Vincent Hütte has worked in the consulting business for more than 9 years, specializing in strategic and organizational issues. His experience includes setting-up new entities, restructuring airlines, defining new business strategies as well as reorganizing units with a strong focus on HR topics.

Mr. Hütte has supported clients in Germany, Denmark, Austria, Malta, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Belgium. He studied Business Administration (B.Sc. and M.Sc) at the University of Mannheim with semesters at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and Plekhanov University in Moscow.

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Liége Emmerz is Head of Market Americas, Partner at Lufthansa Consulting and also Managing Director of our subsidiary company Lufthansa Consulting Limitada located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is also the Head of Solution Group Flight Operations and Safety Management.

The newest trends being developed in her solution group relate to operational sustainability, advanced air mobility services (eVTOL operations), operations digitalization strategies and operational excellence. With over 33 years of experience in the aviation industry, she has acquired and managed various projects around the world.

She is specialized in airline and airport strategy, safety management systems, air cargo management, IOSA and EASA standards and flight training concepts.

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Ilias Maragkakis brings a holistic perspective to airports, having worked for regulators and industry. Ilias is the Associate Partner of Lufthansa Consulting specializing in infrastructure and optimizing operations for both airports and airlines.

He has more than 20 years of aviation experience, having worked as Chief Operating Officer for Fraport Greece until 2022, through all the stages of the privatization of the Greek regional airports: startup, construction, development and operations optimization. His past experience also includes a career in the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), in safety management, government and regulatory relations roles. In the past, Ilias has worked in the UK for consultancies and air cargo operators. Ilias has an Executive MBA from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and an MSc in Airport Planning & Management from Loughborough University in the UK.

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Catrin Drawer, an international aviation expert, is one of the Partners at Lufthansa Consulting, responsible for business development in Africa, Indian Ocean, Iraq and Jordan.

She is specialized in airport operations, ground handling, airport planning, privatization and strategy, with significant expertise in process analysis and optimization. Over the past 35 years she has been working for airline, airport, ground handling companies, CAAs and investors, applying her expertise as project manager and director in multiple airport and airline development projects in Africa, the Middle East and in other countries focusing on the implementation of best industry practice.

Ms. Drawer also signs in Lufthansa Consulting responsible for airport investment project development.

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Based in Frankfurt, Arvind Chandrasekhar heads Lufthansa Consulting’s Network and Fleet Solution Group and helps expand its presence globally. Over his extensive consulting career, he has advised a wide range of clients: passenger airlines (full service and low cost), capacity providers, cargo operators, loyalty programs, aviation training firms, airports and investors. He brings to the table his deep global knowledge of the aviation business, having served clients in every continent and lived/worked in 5 countries.

Mr. Chandrasekhar guides clients on a wide range of issues including airline start-up/growth strategy, network and fleet management, corporate planning, transformation and analytics. He has often led complex cross-functional projects in environments with multiple stakeholders. He is also a regularly contributor to the firm’s thought leadership. He holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (India).