‘TOTALLY ACQUITTED’
Spagnolini says that he emerged “totally acquitted.” Still, as it is for many who enter a courtroom, a stressful toll was extracted from him during the legal battle. He lost his executive office at AgustaWestland. “I resigned to protect the company and to protect myself also. The scandal was a tough time,” he says, but a silver lining in the storm clouds sustained him. “I was well supported by my former colleagues at AgustaWestland as well as by my local community who knew me through my social work.” (Not only is Spagnolini a volunteer ambulance driver, he also mentors young boys in academic subjects.)
MECAER CALLS
Another sunray burst through when Mecaer Aviation Group seized its opportunity to recruit the now semi-retired CEO, who since his resignation had started offering his services as a consultant while indulging his hobbies of gardening and cooking. Armando Sassoli, Mecaer’s co-general manager, gives insight into what his company was thinking, “We at Mecaer have been trying for many years to be the best at what we do. (Their primary business is providing fixed-wing and rotorcraft landing gear and actuation, as well as creating rotorcraft interiors.) We went from a $30 million company to a $150 million company in 15 years. Now, we are ready for the next step. All of us, our shareholders and executives like me, thought we needed the right leader to take us to the next step. This is why Mr. Spagnolini is here with us. At first we didn’t have hope that we could get someone with so much experience and someone who had been at a top position at a company like AgustaWestland.”
Despite Mecaer’s initial doubt that they could land their prize catch, intense recruiting reeled in Spagnolini. “I joined Mecaer because they really wanted me — but there was no salary increase,” he adds with amusement.
Spagnolini also wanted Mecaer because he sees potential for the aerospace company to still fly higher into business blue sky. “Mecaer has good business fundamentals and good technical capabilities,” he says.
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