The Supervisory Board of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG appointed Ingo Ludwig as Chief Financial Officer effective January 1, 2021. In this role, he will primarily be responsible for the implementation of the complex investment projects that go hand in hand with the growth and modernization of the airports in Leipzig / Halle and Dresden. He will also be responsible for technology and IT.
The manager previously worked at Budapest Airport and is currently Director M&A at AviAlliance GmbH, an investor specializing in airports. The position of CFO had been vacant at MDF AG since summer 2019. Ingo Ludwig is to support the chairman of the board, Götz Ahmelmann, in particular. This means that both managers are jointly managing directors of Flughafen Dresden GmbH and Flughafen Leipzig / Halle GmbH. In his central role, Dieter Köhler will remain General Manager of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG and will be responsible for finance and accounting, personnel policy, law and consortia, among other things.
“Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG is successfully pursuing its strategic growth targets and will be investing several hundred million euros in both locations in the coming years. We are therefore delighted that we have won Ingo Ludwig over to us. He knows the airport business very well and will form a powerful team with Götz Ahmelmann and Dieter Köhler. They will use every opportunity for the Central German airports so that the company will continue to play an outstanding role in the region's economy in the long term, ”said Erich Staake, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of MDF AG.