Boeing (BA) announced that its Board of Directors has elected Robert “Kelly” Ortberg as the company’s new president and CEO, effective August 8. Ortberg will also serve on Boeing’s Board of Directors. He will succeed Dave Calhoun, who earlier this year announced his intention to retire from the company, having served as president and CEO since January 2020, and as a member of Boeing’s Board of Directors since 2009. Ortberg brings over 35 years of aerospace leadership to this position. He began his career in 1983 as an engineer at Texas Instruments (TXN), and then joined Rockwell Collins in 1987 as a program manager and held increasingly important leadership positions at the company prior to becoming its president and CEO in 2013.
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