Prior to joining Swiss Aviation Software, Miss Simões was Head of Finance Planning and Budgeting & Contracts Manager at TAP Express, formerly PGA.
Cláudia Sofia Simões joins Sapphire Innovation as Head of Global Aviation Engagements.
Miss Simões joins Sapphire Innovation from Swiss Aviation Software, a subsidiary of Swiss International Air Lines, and part of the Lufthansa Group, one of the World’s largest Airline groups, where she was a Senior Business Consultant for Finance. Prior to joining Swiss Aviation Software, Miss Simões was Head of Finance Planning and Budgeting & Contracts Manager at TAP Express, formerly PGA.
A Portuguese National, she holds a degree in Economics specializing in Management and Financial Analysis.
Paul Smith Eldridge, General Manager and President of Sapphire Innovation, said, “Cláudia Sofia Simões has the ideal combination of skills, having been directly employed by an airline in a senior Finance role, coupled with solid software vendor experience for multiple national-flag carrying airlines, where she provided finance consulting, account management, and software implementation oversight, which will really benefit our Aviation clients.”
Of her appointment on August 2nd 2016, Cláudia Sofia Simões commented “when I saw You Predict I was impressed with the flexibility and the accuracy of the prediction methods, and the low effort of implementation, and my first thought was that this was the tool that all the treasury and financial controlling managers aim to have."
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