TAM Airlines Taps Claudia Sender as New CEO

Claudia Sender, previously Vice President of the Brazil Domestic Business Unit of TAM Airlines, has become the company’s CEO. According to Marco Antonio Bologna, the CEO of the holding company, TAM S.A., who had accumulated the position since February last year, the two functions are once again separated so that the incoming executive can fully dedicate her time to the airline’s passenger operations in Brazil.

Meanwhile Bologna will focus on consolidating the merger with LAN, the institutional relations of the company and of the LATAM Airlines Group in Brazil, and on representing the Brazilian management at the LATAM Airlines Group.

Senders joined TAM Airlines on December 15, 2011. She has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Polytechnic School at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has spent most of her career in the consumer goods industry in the marketing and strategic planning areas.

The separation of the two CEO functions first occurred at TAM in May 2010, when Bologna became CEO of the holding company TAM S.A., the parent company of TAM Airlines, TAM Airlines in Paraguay and Multiplus.

The CEO of TAM S.A. is responsible for the following areas: Finance and Controllership, Internal Audit, Legal and Compliance, Institutional and Government Relations and Operational Safety. Bologna will also supervise the Centre for Service Excellence and the international operations under the structure of the LATAM Airlines Group jointly with the CEO of LAN.