Alain Chisari has been appointed as the new head of Swiss WorldCargo to succeed Lorenzo Stoll, who left the airline in July to take over as chief executive of a healthcare company.

In his new role, Chisari will have overall responsibility for Swiss’s entire airfreight division of some 300 employees worldwide and for developing and implementing the division’s business strategy.

Chisari has held various Swiss and Lufthansa Group management positions since he joined Swiss in 2008. He is currently serving as the implementation officer for the Lufthansa Group as part of its takeover of ITA Airways.

He has also held the role of head of leisure sales and head of external relations and alliances at Swiss and worked at sister airline Edelweiss, where he spent the next five years as chief commercial officer and a member of the management board.

He then moved to the Lufthansa Group as vice president area management Asia and Pacific and subsequently for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

Before joining Swiss, Chisari had already acquired 12 years of industry experience with other airlines outside the Lufthansa Group.

“Chisari brings a vast range of experience of the airline business both within and beyond the Lufthansa Group to his new position,” said Swiss chief commercial officer Heike Birlenbach.

“Thanks to his various international activities, he is also excellently connected throughout our industry. I’m convinced that he will continue to successfully develop our air cargo business, and I look forward to working with him. I also offer Lorenzo Stoll my warmest thanks for all his service and commitment.

“He steered our airfreight division with great success, not least through the highly challenging pandemic times; and he and his Swiss WorldCargo team have consistently made a key contribution to our company’s favourable earnings of the past few years.”