After 9 years at the helm of ACL Airshop, Steve Townes will be stepping down and into an advisory role as Vice Chairman, instead. Air cargo veteran, Bernhard Kindelbacher, will succeed him as ACL Airshop’s new CEO.
Kindelbacher joins ACL Airshop from Lufthansa Cargo, where he held a broad range of executive positions over the course of 34 years. Among them: Managing Director for cargo operations in the USA and Canada, Senior Vice President Strategy & Business Development, and Senior Vice President Network, Product & Marketing. He has also served on the board of Cargo Network Services Corp, and International Cargo Center Shenzhen. His achievements include transformational projects such as the launch of the time-definite services at Lufthansa Cargo, fleet rollover initiation to Boeing 777, and designing and implementing the airline’s first cargo joint ventures with All Nippon Airways, United Cargo and Cathay Pacific, for example.
Bernhard Kindelbacher had this to say about his new role: “ACL Airshop is a successful worldwide entrepreneurial team of air cargo and logistics experts with a strong high-performance culture. I am delighted to join this professional enterprise, to lead it forward in its next stage of growth and strategic development. We will build momentum and take very good care of our customers and our employees. I am very happy to become part of the ACL Airshop team.”
Townes’ comment on the company’s new CEO was: “Bernhard is the right leader for this next chapter of ACL Airshop, with deep professional roots and impeccable expertise in the global air cargo sector.”
