Johan Lundgren (businessman)

Johan Peter Lundgren (born 4 October 1966)[1] is a Swedish businessman, and trombonist, and the Chief Executive of the British airline, easyJet.

Early life

Between 1982-85 he studied classical trombone in Sweden, the UK and the USA. He wanted to become a trombonist after listening to Christian Lindberg. He lived in Bondsjöhöjden, and went to school in Härnösand, on the eastern coast of mid-Sweden in Ångermanland.

He later attended courses at the Stockholm School of Economics in 1993 and completed the Programme for Executive Development at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland in 1996.

Career

TUI Group

He had made initial plans to play the trombone. In 1986, he joined Fritidsresor, a Swedish travel operator, which was later bought by TUI Group (TUI Sverige) in 2001.

He later worked for Fritidsresegruppen i Norden and Svenska Fritidsresor.

In October 2010, he became Managing Director of TUI Travel UK & Ireland (Tourism Union International).

He became the deputy Chief Executive of TUI Group on 20 October 2011,[2][3] where he was paid £605,000 in 2011.

easyJet

He became the Chief Executive of easyJet on 1 December 2017.[4]

Personal life

He is married to Maria, with boy and girl twins. He has a house in London, and another in the Balearic Islands. In 2009 he gave a kidney to his brother Per Lundgren, a musician, by kidney transplantation.

References

  1. ↑ Companies House
  2. ↑ TUI Group
  3. ↑ Deputy Chief Executive
  4. ↑ James Sillars (10 November 2017). "Travel veteran Johan Lundgren named new easyJet boss as Carolyn McCall takes flight". Sky News. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
Business positions
Preceded by
Carolyn McCall		 Chief Executive of EasyJet
December 2017 –		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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