He started his journalism career in 1992 as a freelance writer for Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s largest daily national newspaper and soon specialised in air transport. Jens joined Aviation Week and Aviation Daily in 2000 as one of the European correspondents. Later his role was expanded to cover international air transport. In 2013 he was named Managing Editor Commercial.
Jens frequently appears on radio and TV to comment on industry matters. In 2003, he received the Hugo Junkers Award of the German aviation press for his coverage of Fairchild Dornier’s bankruptcy. He was named the country’s top travel and air transport writer by the Travel Industry Club three times. Jens graduated from the Munich School of Journalism.
Stefan Gemkow will succeed Karl-Ludwig Kley as chief financial officer for Lufthansa, the airline revealed yesterday. Gemkow, 46, currently serves as CFO at subsidiary Lufthansa Cargo and will take up his new position on June 1. Roland Busch, currently head of corporate finance at the Lufthansa Group, will replace him at Lufthansa Cargo. Kley earlier this month submitted his resignation to join pharmaceuticals company Merck as deputy CEO (DAILY, March 15). -JF
Lufthansa is expected to name a new CFO today, after Karl-Ludwig Kley announced his departure to become deputy CEO at pharmaceuticals group Merck (DAILY, March 15). Internal candidates include Heinz-Ludger Heuberg, CFO at Lufthansa subsidiary Thomas Cook; Stefan Gemkow, CFO at Lufthansa Cargo, and Horst Jansen, CFO at Lufthansa Technik. Observers, however, said an outside candidate might also be chosen.
