Boeing on Wednesday named aerospace industry historic Robert “Kelly” Ortberg as its recent president and CEO.
He’ll succeed Dave Calhoun, who earlier this one year announced his draw to retire from the firm, having served as president and CEO since January 2020, and as a member of Boeing’s Board of Directors since 2009.
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“The Board performed a thorough and intensive search path of over the final several months to desire the next CEO of Boeing and Kelly has the loyal skills and experience to lead Boeing in its subsequent chapter,” acknowledged Steven Mollenkopf, Chair of the Board. “Kelly is an skilled leader who is deeply respected within the aerospace industry, with a smartly-earned reputation for constructing sturdy teams and working advanced engineering and manufacturing companies. We look forward to working with him as he leads Boeing thru this consequential duration in its prolonged historic previous.”
“The Board would additionally adore to thank Dave Calhoun for his sturdy leadership at Boeing, first as Chair and then as CEO, when he stepped in to lead the firm thru the challenges of newest years,” added Mollenkopf.
“I’m extraordinarily honored and humbled to affix this iconic firm,” acknowledged Ortberg. “Boeing has a spruce and prosperous historic previous as a lag-setter and pioneer in our industry, and I’m dedicated to working at the side of the larger than 170,000 devoted staff of the firm to continue that custom, with security and quality at the forefront. There would possibly maybe be much work to be accomplished, and I’m searching at for getting began.”
Ortberg, 64, brings over 35 years of aerospace leadership to this discipline. He began his profession in 1983 as an engineer at Texas Devices, and then joined Rockwell Collins in 1987 as a program supervisor and held more and more critical leadership positions at the firm prior to changing into its president and CEO in 2013. After five years leading Rockwell Collins, he suggested the firm’s integration with United Technologies and RTX until his retirement from RTX in 2021. He has held a vary of critical leadership posts in industry, including serving on the Board of Directors of RTX. Furthermore, he serves on the Board of Directors of Aptiv PLC, a world technology firm and an industry leader in automobile programs architecture. He is the used Chair of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) Board of Governors.
Ortberg holds a bachelor’s level in mechanical engineering from the College of Iowa.
