Boeing names Stan Deal CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Boeing names Stan Deal CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes:

23 October 2019:The Boeing Company has appointed Stan Deal as President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Ted Colbert as President and CEO of Boeing Global Services.

Vishwa Uddanwadiker has been appointed to Colbert's former role as interim chief information officer and senior Vice President of Information Technology & Data Analytics.

"Our entire Boeing team is focused on operational excellence, aligned with our values of safety, quality and integrity, and we're committed to delivering on our commitments and regaining trust with our regulators, customers and other stakeholders," Boeing President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg said. "Stan brings extensive operational experience at Commercial Airplanes and trusted relationships with our airline customers and industry partners; and Ted brings to our Global Services business an enterprise approach to customers and strong digital business expertise-a key component of our long-term growth plans."

"We're grateful to Kevin for his dedicated and tireless service to Boeing, its customers and its communities during a challenging time, and for his commitment to support this transition," said Muilenburg. "We also thank Vishwa for stepping up to this important role."

"The Boeing board fully supports these leadership moves," said Boeing Chairman David Calhoun. "Boeing will emerge stronger than ever from its current challenges and the changes we're making throughout Boeing will benefit the flying public well into the future."

"Boeing is a great company with a commitment to safety I have seen firsthand working side-by-side with many thousands of tremendously talented and dedicated employees," said McAllister. "It has been an honour to serve with such a professional team for the past three years."

Stan Deal started working in Boeing from 1986, and is Executive Vice President of Boeing and president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Previously, Deal was President and Chief Executive Officer of Boeing Global Services. He is a member of Boeing's Executive Council. Deal led Boeing Global Services from its establishment in November 2016 as a third business unit of the company, bringing together services capabilities that span the defense, space and commercial sectors. Before leading Boeing Global Services, Deal had held a number of essential leadership positions at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, including running its supply chain and serving as sales leader for the Asia-Pacific region.

Ted Colbert started working for Boeing in 2009 and is Executive Vice President of Boeing, a member of the Boeing Executive Council, and President and CEO of Boeing Global Services. Previously, he served as chief information officer (CIO) and Senior Vice President of Information Technology & Data Analytics. In this role, he oversaw all aspects of information technology, information security, data and analytics. He also supported the growth of Boeing's business through IT- and analytics-related revenue generating programmes.

Vishwa Uddanwadiker is interim chief information officer and senior vice president of Information Technology & Data Analytics. Most recently, he was the Vice President of Information Technology for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. In this role, he was responsible for partnering with the BCA leadership team and implementing the business unit's Digital Transformation strategy.