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Urs von Euw is currently the Acting Vice President, Airport Solutions for Unisys Global Transportation. In this role, he is responsible for coordinating and leveraging the company's various capabilities and solutions in airport security, airport operations and passenger facilitation. He works with all segments of the company to bring Unisys services and solutions to airports and airline ground handling units worldwide. He is currently working on the development and patent of a Mobile Boarding Pass system for use in airports.
Urs joined Unisys in the beginning of 2003 and practice director of Airports for Continental Europe, bringing more than 25 years of valuable airline and airport experience to the company. Prior to his current position, he served as vice president and chief information officer at Swissport International in Zurich. In that capacity, he directed the global ground handler’s information system and data processing technology for all entities worldwide including IT strategy development, server integration and IT procurement.
Urs has also held various management positions in marketing & sales and airline operations. He started his career at the airport of Zurich, where he served for nine years in all aspects of an airline ground handling department. Following this, he transitioned into marketing and sales in both the consumer and the airline industry. In 1989 he built a consultant team in one of the first large scale deployment projects of PCs in Switzerland. He also directed development teams in IT and large groups in the airline/GDS sector. For two years, Urs worked as an independent consultant for the International Air Transport Association (IATA), integrating a tariff publication in an existing business and re-engineering the core processes in this company. | 