steering the company

Soeren Stark has been a member of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik AG since January 2019. After initially taking charge of the Technical Operations & Logistics divisions, he took over the position of Chief Executive Officer on July 1, 2022. Before transferring to Lufthansa Technik, Soeren Stark managed the Executive Board division Operations at Lufthansa Cargo. 

After his graduation, Soeren Stark first worked as a project manager at ICARUS Consulting GmbH in Frankfurt. In 1998 he became a project manager for Logistics Planning at Schott Glaswerke in Mainz where he then served as project manager Supply Chain Management in the industrial glass business unit. In the same year, Soeren Stark became the Head of Logistics in this business unit.

In 2001, Soeren Stark joined the Lufthansa Group as Operations Manager of the Flight Service division Lufthansa Group of the LSG Sky Chefs at the Frankfurt Airport. From 2004 to 2010 he was the Managing Director of Lufthansa Technik Logistics in Hamburg before he became the Aircraft Overhaul Manager of Lufthansa Technik AG in January 2011.

The graduate industrial engineer was born on January 12, 1967 and studied Logistics and Material Flow Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Paris.  

Dr. William Willms has been a member of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik since September 2021 and is responsible for the company's finance department, Corporate Services & IT. 

Prior to his appointment as Chief Financial Officer, he was Executive Vice President Group & Airline Strategy, Business Development, Organizational Development, M&A and Special Projects at Deutsche Lufthansa AG.

Dr. William Willms began his professional career in 1997 as an associate at the Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Investment Banking Division of Deutsche Bank AG. After various other positions in the financial sector in London and Manila, the doctor of law began his career in 2008 at Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg as Director Finance.

In 2013, he became Vice President and took over as Head of Finance. In 2016, he moved to Lufthansa AG as Vice President Corporate Strategy. In 2019, he was appointed Senior Vice President Corporate Strategy. With his appointment as Executive Vice President Group & Airline Strategy, Dr. Willms also became a
member of the Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Lufthansa AG.

Dr. William Willms was born on 22 February 1967 and studied law at the universities of Trier, Lausanne and Heidelberg, successfully graduating with the First State Examination in 1992. After further studies at the universities of Strasbourg, Heidelberg and London (Master of Laws), as well as a legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, he successfully completed his Second State Examination in 1997 and his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg