Boeing on Wednesday named aerospace alternate passe Robert “Kelly” Ortberg as its contemporary president and CEO.
He’ll succeed Dave Calhoun, who earlier this 365 days launched his blueprint to retire from the company, having served as president and CEO since January 2020, and as a member of Boeing’s Board of Administrators since 2009.
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“The Board performed a radical and large search activity over the final several months to determine on out the following CEO of Boeing and Kelly has the particular talents and abilities to lead Boeing in its subsequent chapter,” stated Steven Mollenkopf, Chair of the Board. “Kelly is an skilled leader who’s deeply revered within the aerospace alternate, with a effectively-earned recognition for constructing strong teams and working advanced engineering and manufacturing companies. We pause awake for working with him as he leads Boeing thru this consequential duration in its long historical previous.”
“The Board would furthermore prefer to thank Dave Calhoun for his strong management at Boeing, first as Chair after which as CEO, when he stepped in to lead the company thru the challenges of latest years,” added Mollenkopf.
“I’m extremely honored and humbled to designate up for this iconic company,” stated Ortberg. “Boeing has a truly perfect and rich historical previous as a frontrunner and pioneer in our alternate, and I’m committed to working at the side of the bigger than 170,000 dedicated staff of the company to proceed that custom, with security and quality at the forefront. There is much work to be carried out, and I’m taking a see forward to getting started.”
Ortberg, 64, brings over 35 years of aerospace management to this teach. He began his occupation in 1983 as an engineer at Texas Instruments, after which joined Rockwell Collins in 1987 as a program supervisor and held increasingly more indispensable management positions at the company sooner than becoming its president and CEO in 2013. After 5 years leading Rockwell Collins, he urged the company’s integration with United Technologies and RTX till his retirement from RTX in 2021. He has held a quantity of mighty management posts in alternate, including serving on the Board of Administrators of RTX. Furthermore, he serves on the Board of Administrators of Aptiv PLC, a global technology company and one more leader in car systems architecture. He is the passe Chair of the Aerospace Industries Affiliation (AIA) Board of Governors.
Ortberg holds a bachelor’s diploma in mechanical engineering from the College of Iowa.
