Peter von Moltke

Peter von Moltke is Non-Executive President of UBM Aviation. He was appointed to the post in January 2011 having served as Chief Executive Officer since May 2009.

Peter joined from Amadeus, a leading distribution and technology services provider to the global travel industry, where he was Senior Vice President, Airline Business Group, based in Miami, Florida.

Prior to his 5-year tenure at Amadeus, Peter was President & CEO of Lufthansa Systems Americas, Inc., a $1.2bn revenue subsidiary of Lufthansa Group specialising in the provision of IT products and services to airlines and travel companies.

Peter has also held a number of senior management positions with leading travel businesses including Orbitz LLC, one of the world’s largest online travel companies; the Travel & Transportation division of Unisys; and the Sabre Group (at the time a subsidiary of AMR Corp/American Airlines). He has also been on several boards, including SH&E, Airline Automation Inc, and Teradata Inc.

Born in Johannesburg and educated primarily in South Africa, Peter holds a BSc in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand. He spent the early part of his career as an engineer with The Boeing Company and Gulfstream Aerospace.