...Cassidian and Member of the EADS Executive Committee, with immediate effect. He will succeed Stefan Zoller who has decided to leave EADS in order to pursue new professional challenges. Stefan Zoller has led the Group’s defence and security Division since 2005. Bernhard Gerwert assumes his new duties with a proven track record of more than two decades in the aerospace and defence industry. He has served in various senior management functions of the EADS Group as well as its German predecessor companies. Since 2011, he has been the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Cassidian, overseeing all business activities within the Division. he headed the Cassidian business units Air Systems and the Defence Electronics business unit from 2004 to 2007.