{"id":184906,"date":"2025-07-10T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/?p=184906"},"modified":"2025-07-10T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:34:07","slug":"afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"AFI KLM E&M names van Helden to lead component services portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) has appointed Peter van Helden as senior vice president, component product, to lead the next phase of its global component services strategy.<\/p>\n

Van Helden brings decades of experience in the aviation sector, with a strong background in OEM engagement, technical programme leadership, and commercial development. He has held senior roles in engineering, sales, and programme management, earning a reputation for operational excellence and fostering high-impact partnerships across the industry.<\/p>\n

In his new role, van Helden will focus on advancing AFI KLM E&M\u2019s component services portfolio, supporting its global ambitions by strengthening strategic alliances and delivering customer-centric solutions. His appointment follows the internal move of Bruno Tricoire, who now serves as senior vice president of engines at Air France Industries.<\/p>\n

Anne Brachet, executive vice president of AFI KLM E&M<\/a>, said: \u201cWe are delighted to welcome Peter van Helden to our executive leadership team. His deep industry knowledge, extensive OEM relationships, and track record of success make him an outstanding fit for our organisation. We are confident that under Peter\u2019s leadership, our Component Product business will continue to evolve and deliver exceptional value to our customers worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE NEWS: SalamAir signs up AFI KLM E&M for LEAP-1A engine support<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) has appointed Peter van Helden as senior vice president, component product, to lead…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":184907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131,28,267,4037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","category-mro","category-latest-news-mro","category-people-workplaces"],"yoast_head":"\nAFI KLM E&M names van Helden to lead component services portfolio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AFI KLM E&M appoints Peter van Helden as SVP for component product, to lead its next phase of global component services development.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFI KLM E&M names van Helden to lead component services portfolio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AFI KLM E&M appoints Peter van Helden as SVP for component product, to lead its next phase of global component services development.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aviation Business News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-10T08:34:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2025\/07\/resized-for-web-peter-van-helden.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"924\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Craig Waters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Craig Waters\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"NewsArticle\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Craig Waters\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/cc8864934f2f28b34825934679c0a383\"},\"headline\":\"AFI KLM E&M names van Helden to lead component services portfolio\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-10T08:34:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-10T08:34:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/\"},\"wordCount\":232,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2025\/07\/resized-for-web-peter-van-helden.webp\",\"articleSection\":[\"Industry News\",\"MRO Management\",\"MRO News\",\"People & Workplaces\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2025\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/\",\"name\":\"AFI KLM E&M names van Helden to lead component services portfolio\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2025\/07\/resized-for-web-peter-van-helden.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-10T08:34:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-10T08:34:07+00:00\",\"description\":\"AFI KLM E&M appoints Peter van Helden as SVP for component product, to lead its next phase of global component services development.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2025\/07\/resized-for-web-peter-van-helden.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2025\/07\/resized-for-web-peter-van-helden.webp\",\"width\":1640,\"height\":924,\"caption\":\"Peter van Helden\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"AFI KLM E&M names van Helden to lead component services portfolio\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/\",\"name\":\"Aviation Business News\",\"description\":\"Latest global aviation news and industry insight\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Aviation Business News\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Aviation-Business-News-Logo-header.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Aviation-Business-News-Logo-header.png\",\"width\":1105,\"height\":355,\"caption\":\"Aviation Business News\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/cc8864934f2f28b34825934679c0a383\",\"name\":\"Craig Waters\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cropped-Craig-Waters-250x250-1-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cropped-Craig-Waters-250x250-1-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Craig Waters\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/author\/craigwaters\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"AFI KLM E&M names van Helden to lead component services portfolio","description":"AFI KLM E&M appoints Peter van Helden as SVP for component product, to lead its next phase of global component services development.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"AFI KLM E&M names van Helden to lead component services portfolio","og_description":"AFI KLM E&M appoints Peter van Helden as SVP for component product, to lead its next phase of global component services development.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/","og_site_name":"Aviation Business News","article_published_time":"2025-07-10T08:34:07+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1640,"height":924,"url":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2025\/07\/resized-for-web-peter-van-helden.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"Craig Waters","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Craig Waters","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["Article","NewsArticle"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/"},"author":{"name":"Craig Waters","@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/cc8864934f2f28b34825934679c0a383"},"headline":"AFI KLM E&M names van Helden to lead component services portfolio","datePublished":"2025-07-10T08:34:07+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-10T08:34:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/"},"wordCount":232,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2025\/07\/resized-for-web-peter-van-helden.webp","articleSection":["Industry News","MRO Management","MRO News","People & Workplaces"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","copyrightYear":"2025","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/","url":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/","name":"AFI KLM E&M names van Helden to lead component services portfolio","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2025\/07\/resized-for-web-peter-van-helden.webp","datePublished":"2025-07-10T08:34:07+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-10T08:34:07+00:00","description":"AFI KLM E&M appoints Peter van Helden as SVP for component product, to lead its next phase of global component services development.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2025\/07\/resized-for-web-peter-van-helden.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2025\/07\/resized-for-web-peter-van-helden.webp","width":1640,"height":924,"caption":"Peter van Helden"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/afi-klm-em-names-van-helden-to-lead-component-services-portfolio\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"AFI KLM E&M names van Helden to lead component services portfolio"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/","name":"Aviation Business News","description":"Latest global aviation news and industry insight","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#organization","name":"Aviation Business News","url":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Aviation-Business-News-Logo-header.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Aviation-Business-News-Logo-header.png","width":1105,"height":355,"caption":"Aviation Business News"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/cc8864934f2f28b34825934679c0a383","name":"Craig Waters","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cropped-Craig-Waters-250x250-1-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cropped-Craig-Waters-250x250-1-96x96.jpg","caption":"Craig Waters"},"url":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/author\/craigwaters\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184908,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184906\/revisions\/184908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}