Boeing's Board of Directors has named Robert K. 'Kelly' Ortberg as the company's new president and chief executive officer.
Boeing 's Board of Directors has named Robert K. "Kelly" Ortberg as the company's new president and chief executive officer. The company announced on Wednesday that his role will go into effect Aug. 8, and he will serve on Boeing 's Board of Directors.
He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineer from the University of Iowa, and started his career in 1983 as an engineer with Texas Instruments. In 1987, he joined Rockwell Collins as a program manager and held increasingly important leadership positions at the company prior to becoming its president and CEO in 2013. Ortberg helped Rockwell Collins's integration with United Technologies and RTX until his retirement from RTX in 2021.
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