Dr Cyrille Schwob is currently head of Technology in APAC, working at Airbus Singapore. He is responsible for developing and synchronizing R&T and innovations activities for Airbus in the Asia Pacific region.

Cyrille started his career in Airbus more than ten years ago, as a research engineer in the field of composite modeling where he was in charge of developing novel methods of numerical simulations for composites structures. In 2007 he moved to China where he worked successively for Tsinghua University on reliability of structural components and for Airbus Beijing Engineering Centre (China) on damage tolerance methods. In 2009 he came back to Airbus Group in Toulouse where he led projects on composite structures analysis and testing. In 2010 he moved to Malaysia where he has been in charge of leading Airbus Group R&T activities in the country and as such appointed as AMIC Chief Technical Officer. Since July 2015, Cyrille moved to Singapore where he now develops Airbus R&T activities in the Asia Pacific region.

Cyrille is a graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Cachan. He obtained his PhD degree from Toulouse University in 2007 in the field of structural computations and recently obtained a MBA from the Alliance Manchester Business School. He has a long standing passion for Asia which led him to learn mandarin over the last few years.

More than 15 years of international experience in business and brand strategies and management, with in-depth knowledge of design thinking processes to development, frameworks and implementation that delivers against business/brand equities and objectives.