Eve Air Mobility Appoints Johann Bordais as CEO

Dark/Light Mode (01/08/23)  Eve Air Mobility has appointed Johann Bordais, current President and CEO of Embraer Services & Support, as Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 September 2023.

Johann Bordais

Eve’s current co-CEOs, Andre Stein and Jerry DeMuro, will remain at Eve with new roles.

Andre Stein will assume the role of Chief Strategy Officer at Eve. Based in the United States, he will be responsible for defining Eve’s strategy, including commercialization, growth and the development and execution of launch strategies with Eve’s international partners and operators.

Stein has over 25 years of experience in the aerospace industry with a focus on sales, product development and market strategy and has nurtured the Urban Air Mobility initiative since its inception, helping to define the industry’s potential use-cases, markets and product characteristics, while contributing to Eve’s spin-off process, NYSE listing and capital raise.

Jerry DeMuro will remain at Eve as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development through the end of October 2023 to assist Johann in the transition. DeMuro joined the company in September 2021 as co-CEO and was instrumental in Eve’s SPAC transaction, taking the company to a very successful NYSE listing that raised approximately $400 million from multiple strategic financial investors.

In a separate change, Kenn Ricci has announced his intention to resign from the Eve Board of Directors by the end of October 2023. At that time, the expectation is Jerry DeMuro will be appointed to replace Kenn Ricci on Eve’s Board of Directors.

“Eve has made incredible progress and accomplished important milestones in the development of an eVTOL aircraft and the urban air ecosystem under the leadership of Jerry and Stein,” said Luís Carlos Affonso, Chairman of Eve’s Board. “Now, with the acceleration of our vehicle development and increased focus on operations and entry-into-service of our eVTOL, Johann Bordais’ leadership and experience successfully leading a global business will be an outstanding addition to Eve’s team, helping our mission to create Urban Air Mobility.”

Johann Bordais has led Embraer’s Services & Support business since its foundation in 2016. He was pivotal in transforming the area into Embraer’s fast-growing and most profitable business of the company, with reported revenues of $1.27 billion in 2022, accounting for 28% of Embraer’s total revenue.

“Urban Air Mobility has the potential to revolutionize how people commute and travel with a direct impact on millions of lives. Supporting customers in a high-demand services environment with the right product is our mission. Eve has built a skilled team in recent years to deliver an effective and sustainable new mode of transportation, and I’m so proud and very excited to join this group,” said Johann Bordais.

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