vion-lanctuitCecile Vion-Lanctuit, VP of corporate communications for Airbus Helicopters, has moved to train maker Bombardier Transportation as VP-communications.

Based in Berlin, Vion-Lanctuit heads external and internal communications for the rail industry titan, a unit of $18.2B Montreal-based Bombardier.

Sharon Christians stepped down as VP communications, PR and group marketing at BT in July after an eight-year run.

The French and Canadian citizen spent the past eight years at Airbus, joining from EADS, where she was a senior manager for media monitoring and impact control and started out with the company in Paris.

Yves Barillé, group communicators director for missile systems developer MBDA, will join Airbus Helicopters as VP of corporate comms. in May 2015.