The Government of the Azores will appoint Dr. Rui Miguel Furtado Coutinho as President, who will be responsible for appointing the other members of the Board of Directors.
Former regional director of air transport Rui Coutinho will be the new president of the airline SATA, the Azores government revealed on Friday, which decided to create a strategic council to “strengthen the company’s decision-making processes.”
“With regard to the Board of Directors of SATA Holding, SA, the Government of the Azores will appoint Dr. Rui Miguel Furtado Coutinho as president, who will be in charge of appointing the remaining elements that will make up the team of the Board of Directors, which “It will maintain all the powers currently enshrined in the company’s statutes,” said the regional secretary of Tourism, Mobility and Infrastructure, Berta Cabral, at a press conference today.
According to the governor, Rui Coutinho “has several years of experience in the aviation and transport sector, having been regional director of Air and Maritime Transport and regional director of Mobility”.
Rui Coutinho also served as head of the Airport Operations department at Ponta Delgada Airport, director of Santa María Airport and head of the Planning, Management and Control Division of the Azores Airports Directorate, under the direction of ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, “having coordinated the areas of planning and management control, investments, marketing, licensing, environment and information systems,” he said.
The future president of SATA will occupy the position left vacant by Teresa Gonçalves, who resigned on April 9 for “personal reasons,” according to the Azores executive.
Teresa Gonçalves assumed the presidency of the business group in April 2023, after the departure of Luís Rodrigues to direct TAP.
Also present at Friday’s meeting with journalists was the Secretary of Finance, Planning and Public Administration of the Azores, Duarte Freitas, who revealed that The regional executive decided that a Strategic Council will be created, “with statutory dignity, with the aim of strengthening decision-making processes on issues considered strategic, promoting an alignment of all interests involved and strengthening reflection on the role of SATA in the region.”
Source: Observadora
