Our Governance

At MBDA, we promote and embody international cooperation and governance. Since its creation, our Group has built an ‘integrated’ model.

Executive Committee

Our Group’s corporate governance takes into account the Group’s specific and unique integrated organisational model in the defence industry, key to its European leadership. It specifies the distribution of roles and responsibilities within the Group, and is built around an MBDA Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Executive Committee, the national companies’ Managing Directors and other key stakeholders.

Most functions within MBDA's integrated model operate through cross-functional committees responsible for developing policies and best practices for their respective activities and operations.

A detailed Business Management System contains all our policies, processes and procedures that govern the day-to-day operations of MBDA's functions and corporate structures. This ensures that all relevant stakeholders can act in compliance with applicable laws and MBDA guidelines.

The Group is led by the CEO, who conducts the overall management of MBDA Group and is supported by the Executive Committee in carrying out their respective responsibilities. Together, they determine MBDA group direction, providing leadership, driving continuous improvement and ensuring the alignment between business goals and operational activities, in accordance with the Strategic Business Plan and Budget. The final and utmost objective of the Executive Committee is to drive to the long-term success and sustainability of MBDA.

Our shareholders are three leading players in aerospace and defence: Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo. Through the Board of Directors, which comprises shareholders’ nominees, they approve MBDA’s general strategic objectives.

We believe that leadership is not just about making decisions, but also about fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration which allows us to make the most of the multinational and multicultural identity of the MBDA group. Through regular joint working sessions, cross-functional initiatives and communication, our Executive Committee ensures alignment across the organisation and adaptability in an evolving geopolitical landscape.

Eric Béranger

Eric Béranger

  • Chief Executive Officer
Eric Béranger

Eric Béranger

  • Chief Executive Officer

Eric Béranger is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MBDA since June 2019.

Since he joined the company, MBDA has continued to grow as a unique and successful model of a European integrated Defence company. By fostering cooperation at the service of the sovereignty of our nations and their allies, the nearly 20,000 employees, 5B€ turnover Group has proven to be more relevant than ever.

Prior to joining MBDA, Eric was the Chief Executive Officer of OneWeb, scaling up this high technology, disruptive Unicorn aimed at offering affordable broadband Internet access to everyone, everywhere, anytime on Earth.

In 2014, as the head of Programs in the new organization “Airbus Defence and Space”, his contribution led to the award of the first full electric propulsion commercial satellites contracts from SES and Eutelsat.

In 2012, he became CEO of Astrium Satellites, and led this 10,000 employees satellite manufacturer into two world firsts.
He created Astrium Services in 2003. Under his leadership as the CEO, the company grew its revenues and workforce more than 15 fold from 2003 to 2012 and achieved major successes.

Between 1988 and 2000, he held management positions in engineering, operations and finance at France Telecom, Société Générale, and Matra Marconi Space (now Airbus Defence and Space). At the inception of EADS in 2000, he was appointed Senior Vice President Marketing for all space activities.

Colonel in the citizen reserve of the French Air Force, he is a graduate engineer from the Ecole Polytechnique and Telecom Paris.
 

Chris Allam

  • Executive Vice President Technical
  • Managing Director MBDA United Kingdom – Product Design Authority United Kingdom Business Line

Chris Allam

  • Executive Vice President Technical
  • Managing Director MBDA United Kingdom – Product Design Authority United Kingdom Business Line

Chris joined MBDA in 2018 from BAE Systems, where he held a number of senior leadership roles including Managing Director for Future Programmes and Services and Engineering Director for the Military Air and Information Business.

Chris began his career in BAE Systems in 1988, building three decades of experience across engineering, technology and strategic leadership within the Aerospace and Defence sector

He is a graduate of the University of Hertfordshire, where he obtained a BEng in Aeronautical Engineering.  Chris is a Fellow of both the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. 

Thomas Gottschild

  • Executive Vice President Strategy & Future Growth
  • Managing Director MBDA Germany – Product Design Authority Germany Business Line

Thomas Gottschild

  • Executive Vice President Strategy & Future Growth
  • Managing Director MBDA Germany – Product Design Authority Germany Business Line

Thomas joined MBDA in 2016 from Airbus and was appointed Managing Director of MBDA Germany GmbH and Executive Group Director Improvement and he was subsequently appointed Executive Group Director Strategy in 2018.

Thomas joined AIRBUS Defence & Space in 1996 where from 2008 to 2011, he served as Associate Head of the EADS Brussels Office, holding the title of EADS Director EU Defence Policy.

Between 2011 and 2014, he led the Technical Sales Support unit and subsequently the Portfolio Management unit at Cassidian Mission Systems. From 2014 until the end of 2015, he was responsible for the strategy of the Space Systems division.

After completing his Abitur in 1988, Thomas served for two years in the German Armed Forces, specialising in air defence. He then earned a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Siegen.

Stéphane Reb

  • Executive Vice President Programmes
  • Managing Director MBDA France – Product Design Authority Cooperative Business Line and Product Design Authority France Business Line

Stéphane Reb

  • Executive Vice President Programmes
  • Managing Director MBDA France – Product Design Authority Cooperative Business Line and Product Design Authority France Business Line

Stéphane joined MBDA in 2018 from the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) the French Government’s defence procurement and technology agency, where he served as International Director.

He began his career at the DGA in 1991, where he was responsible for tactical missile studies. He subsequently held a series of senior positions across the missile and aerospace domains.

In 2001, he joined OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en matière d’Armement / Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation) in Bonn, where he led the Tiger helicopter programme.

In 2007, he returned to the DGA as Rafale Programme Director, later leading the Rafale Management Unit, before being joining the DGA’s International Directorate.

Renzo Tosini

  • Executive Vice President Sales & Business Development
  • Executive Vice President Procurement
  • Managing Director MBDA Italia – Product Design Authority Italia Business Line

Renzo Tosini

  • Executive Vice President Sales & Business Development
  • Executive Vice President Procurement
  • Managing Director MBDA Italia – Product Design Authority Italia Business Line

Renzo Tosini was appointed as MBDA Executive Vice President Sales & Business Development and Managing Director of MBDA Italia, in May 2026. 
He is also Executive Vice President Procurement for the MBDA Group since January 1, 2026. 

From December 1, 2024, to January 1, 2026, he served as Executive Group Director Technology & Performance and also as Co-General Manager of MBDA Italia. 

He joined MBDA after a career in positions of increasing importance in Leonardo, where his most recent role was Deputy Managing Director (2023) in the Land and Sea Business Area within the Electronics division, where he also was Chief Technology Innovation Officer (2021-2023). In the same years he held the role of Managing Director of Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (2020-2023). 
His career in the Leonardo Electronics division includes several managerial roles as Senior Vice President Naval Business (2019- 2021), Naval and Air Defence (2017-2019) and Optronics Lines of Business (2016-2019). 

Prior to that, Renzo Tosini held strategic positions within SELEX Sistemi Integrati, until becoming the Director of naval programs in Selex ES. He was also head of system architectures in the engineering function for naval systems, in Alenia Difesa and then in Alenia Marconi Systems.
He began his career in 1992 in Logistics Systems Engineering, after his degree in Electronic Engineering (Telecommunications), at Pisa University.
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