Eurocopter names Cécile Vion-Lanctuit as Vice President of Corporate Communications

Cécile Vion-Lanctuit has been appointed as Eurocopter Group’s Vice President of Corporate Communications. In her new role, Vion-Lanctuit reports to CEO Lutz Bertling and oversees all internal and external communications for Eurocopter. Prior to this new position, Vion-Lanctuit, 43, was Eurocopter’s Head of International Media Relations since January 2007, and previously worked as one of the company’s press officers. She came to Eurocopter in April 2006 from parent company EADS, where she worked at the Munich Headquarters during four years as Senior Manager Media Monitoring and Impact Control in charge of the EADS Group’s image. She joined the company in Paris as a Corporate Auditor in late 1999. Her other career experience includes 10 years in communications and marketing in the real estate field in Canada, where she gained Canadian nationality in addition to her French citizenship. Vion-Lanctuit is a graduate of the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Lille in France. As Eurocopter’s new Vice President of Corporate Communications, she succeeds Olivier Blain, who will assume other duties within the Eurocopter Group.