Thomas Hirschmann, Jet Aviation president and CEO and son of founder Carl Hirschmann Sr., has resigned from the family-owned business “to pursue other interests” and will henceforth have “no involvement in decision-making” at the company, a Jet Aviation spokesman told AIN late last month. The younger Hirschmann, 48, has spent his entire 29-year career with the company and had led the worldwide, operationally diverse business aviation conglomerate since 1990, five years before his father’s death.
Hirschmann has been replaced by veteran Jet Aviation executive Heinz Köhli as interim CEO. However, the spokesman told AIN there is no search under way for a permanent CEO. Köhli, a protégé of Carl Hirschmann Sr., joined the company in 1977, 10 years after its founding, and is highly regarded both inside and outside the company. His appointment promises to act as a stabilizing influence at a time of considerable upheaval.
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