Fabrice Brégier, born on 16 July 1961, is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Airbus and is a Member of the EADS Executive Committee.
Prior to assuming this position he has been President and CEO of Eurocopter since 2003 and became a Member of the EADS Executive Committee as Head of EADS' Eurocopter Division in June 2005.
Brégier began his career in 1983 as a test engineer at Creys-Malville nuclear power station and became sales manager at Pechiney (Japan) in 1984. He joined the DRIRE Alsace (Ministry of Industry) in 1986 before being appointed Director of economic and financial affairs with the Ministry of Agriculture in 1989.
One year later, Brégier as a Technical Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Trade was responsible for multilateral business affaires and became Technical Advisor to the Minister of Post and Telecommunications, in charge of industrial and international affairs.
In 1993, Brégier joined Matra Défense as Chairman of the Apache MAW GIE (co-operation with Dasa) and Chairman of the Eurodrone GIE (with STN-Atlas) before he was named in 1996 Director of Stand-Off activities (Apache, Scalp EG/Storm Shadow) in what had become Matra BAe Dynamics.
From the beginning of 1998, Brégier served as CEO of Matra BAe Dynamics. He was appointed CEO of MBDA, the newly created European Missile Systems Company that was created in 2001 by Aerospatiale Matra, British Aerospace and Finmeccanica.
Fabrice Brégier graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines.
