Mario Kossmann is a Systems Engineer and Capability Integrator for Airbus, having previously worked for Blohm & Voss as a Systems Engineer, Technical Manager and also Consultant in Services Marketing. He has served as an officer with the German and French navies, and was awarded an MEng in Aerospace Engineering from the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, and an MBA from the University of Warwick. In 2005 Mario transferred from Airbus Deutschland to Airbus UK, tasked with the development and implementation of a service quality concept for one of the core engineering disciplines within Airbus. This concept has been validated and implemented transnationally in the UK, Germany, France and Spain across all aircraft programmes and across all engineering centres of competence and excellence.