Cargolux appoints new head of Sales & Marketing

Luxembourg, 10 April 2003 – Cargolux Airlines has appointed Robert van de Weg, 37, currently Sr Vice President Sales & Marketing of Atlas Air, as its new Head of Sales & Marketing. He takes over the seat left vacant by Ulrich Ogiermann, who was appointed President and CEO of Cargolux on 1 January 2003.

Mr. van de Weg, will take over his new position at the Luxembourg headquarters of Cargolux on 19 May 2003.

Robert van de Weg, born 1965 in The Hague, is of Dutch nationality and a business economics graduate of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has spent his entire professional career in the aviation business. He held various management positions at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, having joined as a finance corporate trainee in 1990. KLM assignments abroad led him to Singapore and Dubai, where he held the positions of Regional Manager, Sales Director and, finally, Area Manager. In 1999, he was appointed Vice President, Business Unit Air Logistics, at KLM Cargo.

He left KLM in 2001 for Atlas Air where he became Regional Vice President Europe, Middle East, South Asia and Africa and then Sr Vice President Sales & Marketing of Atlas Air. Robert van de Weg is married and has three children.