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Interview: André Dosé, CEO of Swiss international airlines
Author(s) -
Dunn John E.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
thunderbird international business review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.553
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1520-6874
pISSN - 1096-4762
DOI - 10.1002/tie.10042
Subject(s) - international business , citation , library science , management , sociology , business , economics , computer science
ndre Dose may very well be the unknown dark horse in the airline industry, but what he lacks in international recognition, he makes up in drive and determination. Appointed CEO of Crossair in late 2000, Andre took over the top job at Crossair so that Crossair’s previous CEO and Founder Moritz Suter could leave the company to become president of Swissair. Suter left his job as Swissair CEO a few weeks into the post convinced that he was unable to fulfill his mission, followed rapidly thereafter by a mass resignation of most of the Swissair board. Mario Corti, previously CFO of Nestle was given the top job at Swissair, and immediately tapped Andre Dose into Swissair’s management committee. The next year was critical for Swissair, and Dose, sitting as one of the top management officers for Swissair as well as CEO of Crossair, was well placed to experience firsthand the events leading up to Swissair’s demise.