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Former Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders Joins Lilium Board
Five years after being launched in 2015, Lilium is valued at just over $1 billion, according to some estimates.
Tom Enders
Former Airbus CEO Tom Enders has joined the board of eVTOL aircraft developer Lilium. (Photo: Lilium)

Former Airbus CEO Tom Enders has joined the board of eVTOL aircraft developer Lilium. The German aviation executive and former paratrooper spent two decades with Airbus, serving as chief executive from 2007 to 2019.

Announcing the appointment on January 12, Lilium said Enders’s role “will involve decision making which influences the ongoing growth in the business.” So far, the company has raised $375 million in capital, and, according to some estimates, is now worth in excess of $1 billion.