{"id":13037,"date":"2019-06-08T20:15:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=13037"},"modified":"2019-06-08T20:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T20:16:12","slug":"cirrus-aircraft-announces-new-chief-executive-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/minnesota\/cirrus-aircraft-announces-new-chief-executive-officer\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Cirrus Aircraft Announces New Chief Executive Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cirrus Aircraft has announced that Zean Nielsen has been\nselected to succeed Co-founder Dale Klapmeier as its next Chief Executive\nOfficer (CEO).&nbsp; Nielsen has held senior\nleadership roles at a range of global world-class organizations, including\nTesla Motors, James Hardie and Bang &amp; Olufsen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Z-Nielsen_Opt-1-474x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13038\" width=\"289\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Z-Nielsen_Opt-1-474x310.jpg 474w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Z-Nielsen_Opt-1-474x310-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><figcaption><em>Zean Nielsen<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCirrus Aircraft has a remarkably bright future ahead,\u201d\nnoted Dale Klapmeier, Co-founder and National Aviation Hall of Fame member. \u201cWe\nare fortunate to have someone of Zean\u2019s caliber and experience to lead us into\nthe next era of growth. I am looking forward to moving into a Senior Advisory\nrole and continuing to work with our exceptional team on reinventing the future\nof personal transportation.\u201d&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am honored and humbled to join this team of experienced\ngeneral aviation leaders and a world-class workforce as we continue to bring\ngame-changing products and services to market,\u201d said Zean Nielsen, CEO of\nCirrus Aircraft. \u201cOur mission is to deliver an aviation experience that is the\npinnacle of innovation, quality and safety to our customers \u2013 and that is\nexactly what we will continue to do for many years to come.\u201d&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zean most recently served as the Executive Vice President of\nNorth American Sales at James Hardie, a leading industrial building materials\ncompany. Prior to his role at James Hardie, Nielsen ran all aspects of Tesla\nMotors worldwide sales operations efforts as the Vice President of Global Sales\nOperations.&nbsp; Zean began his career at\nBang &amp; Olufsen, the luxury electronics maker, where over a 17 year career\nhe ascended to more senior roles before he ultimately became the President of\nBang &amp; Olufsen North and South America, prior to joining Tesla Motors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nielsen assumed the CEO role at Cirrus Aircraft on 3 June\n2019.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cirrus Aircraft has announced that Zean Nielsen has been selected to succeed Co-founder Dale Klapmeier as its next Chief Executive Officer (CEO).&nbsp; Nielsen has held senior leadership roles at a range of global world-class organizations, including Tesla Motors, James Hardie and Bang &amp; Olufsen. \u201cCirrus Aircraft has a remarkably bright future ahead,\u201d noted Dale Klapmeier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-minnesota"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cirrus-Aircraft.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13039,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037\/revisions\/13039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}