AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES - Key Persons
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- Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
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- Vice President, Communications
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- President / Owner, GSE Dynamics, Inc.
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- Senior Vice President, Strategic Development, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc
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- Member of the SMC Leadership Committee
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- VP, Washington Operations, CAE - USA
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- Senior Vice President, Operations
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- Member of the SMC Leadership Committee
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- Chief Executive Officer and President, AeroMed Group, LLC
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- President & CEO, ATI Defense
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- CEO
- President
- Chairman, President and CEO, Cubic Corporation
- Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors
Bradley H. Feldmann has served as president and chief executive officer of Cubic Corporation since July 2014. Feldmann was appointed to the board of directors in May 2014.
Previously, he served as the president and chief operating officer from January 2013 until assuming his current position, and as the president of the companies comprising the Cubic Defense Systems segment from 2008 through March 2013.
As president and CEO, Feldmann has led several major innovation initiatives within the company, such as the implementation of IdeaSpark - an internal innovation social system enabling Cubic employees to organically solicit and share ideas across the company. These ideas include the development of new products, improvements to current products or discovering solutions that the company's customers need.
Feldmann is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Institute and holds a Master of Business Administration with honors from San Diego State University. He is also a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a top graduate of the USAF Squadron Officer School.
Feldmann is a Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors and is a member of the Aerospace Industries Association's executive committe as well as board of governors. He also serves on the board of several organizations, including the National Defense Industrial Association and UrbanLife. Feldmann received the 2016 Duane Roth Distinguished Contribution Award for Technology by CONNECT for his contributions in elevating San Diego as a global innovation economy.
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- Assistant Vice President, Human Resources & Operations
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- Vice President, Government Relations, Viasat
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- Manager, International Programs & Policy Integration
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- President, Solvay Composite Materials, Solvay
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- Member of the SMC Leadership Committee
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- Standards Engineer, National Aerospace Standards ( NAS ) Program
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- Assistant Vice President, Standards
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- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
- Chief Executive Officer and President of L3 Technologies
- Vice Chair & Chief Executive Officer, L3Harris Technologies
Christopher E. Kubasik is Chief Executive Officer and President of L3 Technologies, a global aerospace and national security company with 2016 sales of $10.5 billion that employs approximately 38,000 people worldwide.
Mr. Kubasik has more than 30 years of experience in the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry, having joined L3 as President and Chief Operating Officer in 2015. In January 2018, he was named Chief Executive Officer and elected to the company's Board of Directors. Additionally, Mr. Kubasik served as the first Chairman of the L3 Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Council, which promotes the company's inclusive culture and encourages active participation of all employees in advancing L3's business and performance.
Prior to joining L3, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Seabury Advisory Group LLC, a leading aviation and A&D professional services firm. In 2010, he was appointed President and COO of Lockheed Martin Corporation, where he also held a number of senior executive and finance roles. Before joining Lockheed, Mr. Kubasik enjoyed a successful career at Ernst & Young, where he was named Partner in 1996.
Mr. Kubasik serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Governors of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), and is a member of the Air Force Association (AFA), the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), the Navy League of the United States, and the Association of the United States Army (AUSA). He is also Vice President of the Board of Governors of The Wings Club Foundation, Inc, and a member of the University of Maryland Board of Trustees. Mr. Kubasik previously served on the boards of International Paper Company and Lockheed Martin Corporation, and was on the Marsico Investment Fund Board of Trustees and the USO Board of Governors.
Mr. Kubasik graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland School of Business and completed the Executive Program at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He also completed the Systems Acquisition Management Program at the Defense Acquisition University at Fort Belvoir and received an Executive Engineering Certificate from Carnegie Mellon University.
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- Assistant Vice President, International Affairs
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- Global Vice President, PPG Aerospace - Sierracin Corporation
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- President and Chief Executive Officer, Triumph Group, Inc.
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- Director - a & D Global Industry & Cognitive Solutions, IBM Corporation
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- Vice President, Civil Aviation
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- Director, Industrial Policy
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- President & Chief Executive Officer, SupplyOn North America, Inc
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- President & Chief Executive Officer, Aireon LLC
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- Director / President and Chief Executive Officer, CPI Aerostructures
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- President, Ball Aerospace
Dr. Dave Kaufman has more than 25 years of engineering and management experience in the aerospace industry and government space. He joined Ball Aerospace in 2000, and has held several leadership positions. He served as Vice President (VP) and general manager of the National Defense Strategic Business Unit from 2013 to 2019, when he was named COO in January 2020.
Kaufman received a B.S. in mathematics from Willamette University, a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, and an M.S. and Ph. D in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
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- Senior Vice President, the Aerospace Corporation, Civil Systems Group
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- Chief Executive Officer & President, Aerojet Rocketdyne
Ms. Drake has served as CEO and President of Aerojet Rocketdyne since June 2015. Immediately prior to these roles, she served as the Company's COO from March 2015 to June 2015. Before joining the Company, Ms. Drake held several senior positions with United Technologies Corporation ("UTC"), a multinational manufacturing conglomerate, from 2003 to 2015, including President of Pratt & Whitney AeroPower's auxiliary power unit and small turbojet propulsion business from 2012 to 2015. From 1996 to 2003, Ms. Drake managed production operations at both the Ford Motor Company and Visteon Corporation where she was Ford's product line manager for steering systems and plant manager of Visteon's fuel system operation. Ms. Drake also served on active duty for seven years as a U.S. Army aviator and airfield commander of Davison Army Airfield in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. She is a distinguished military graduate of the U.S. Army Aviation Officer School and received a Master of Business Administration from Butler University and a Bachelor of Arts from The College of New Rochelle. She also holds commercial and private pilot licenses in both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.
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- Co - Founder
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Director of New York Stock Exchange
- Ex Officio, Aerospace Industries Association / Co - President, HEICO Corporation
Eric A. Mendelson is the Co-President and a Director of New York Stock Exchange traded HEICO Corporation. He has also been President and Chief Executive Officer of HEICO's Flight Support Group since its founding in 1997 and served as President of HEICO Aerospace Corporation from 1993 until 2011 and Executive Vice President of HEICO Corporation from 2001 until 2009.
Mr. Mendelson is a co-founder, and, since 1987, has been Managing Director of Mendelson International Corporation, a private investment company, which is a shareholder of HEICO.
HEICO has grown significantly since Eric, along with his father Laurans, and his brother Victor, assumed control, expanding from 200 Team Members with $25m in sales and market cap in 1990, to over 6,000 Team Members with over $2b in sales and $16b+ in market cap today.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- President & Chief Executive Officer, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- President
- President & Chief Executive Officer, Aerospace Industries Association / Executive Committee
Eric Fanning is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), the leading advocacy organization for the aerospace and defense industry with nearly 350 companies in its membership - ranging from multinational prime contractors to family-owned businesses. As AIA's leader, Fanning develops the association's strategic priorities and works with member CEOs to advocate for policies and responsible budgets that keep our country strong, bolster our capacity to innovate and spur our economic growth.
Fanning joined AIA after serving as the 22nd Secretary of the Army where he provided leadership and oversight of our nation's largest military service. He previously served as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense, Acting Secretary of the Air Force and Under Secretary of the Air Force, and Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy/Deputy Chief Management Officer. He is the only person to have held senior appointments in all three military departments and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
During his more than 25 years of distinguished government service, Fanning worked on the staff of the House Armed Services Committee, was Senior Vice President of Strategic Development for Business Executives for National Security, was Deputy Director of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, and was associate director of political affairs at the White House.
Fanning holds a bachelor's degree in history from Dartmouth College. His awards include the Department of Defense's Medal for Distinguished Public Service (twice awarded), the Department of the Army's Decoration for Distinguished Civilian Service, the Department of the Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award (twice awarded) and the Department of the Air Force's Distinguished Public Service Award and Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service.
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- Coordinator, Communications & Legislative Affairs / Legislative Affairs
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- Coordinator, Human Resources & Operations
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Owner and Chief Executive Officer, Sierra Nevada Corporation
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- Managing DIrector, Aernnova Aerospace
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- Chief Executive Officer, ACUTRONIC Group
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- President and CEO, Wisk Aero
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- Director, Lifecycle Management / Communications
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- Head of Government Affairs, Joby Aviation
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- Vice President, Strategy, Growth & Partnerships, Siemens Government Technology Group
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Chief Executive Officer of Raytheon Technologies Corporation
- Chief Executive Officer, Raytheon Technologies
- Member of the Company 's Board of Directors
Gregory J. Hayes is the chief executive officer of Raytheon Technologies Corporation, responsible for leading an aerospace and defense company of 195,000 employees and $74 billion in annual sales.
Also serving as a member of the company's board of directors, Hayes has a nearly 21-year career at United Technologies Corporation, holding several senior leadership roles across finance, corporate strategy and business development, culminating with his appointment to chief executive officer in 2014 and chairman in 2016. As CEO, Hayes led the reshaping of UTC from industrial conglomerate to focused aerospace company. Beginning with the divestiture of Sikorsky Aircraft in 2015 and the acquisition of Rockwell Collins in 2018, Hayes continued to focus the business with the spinoffs of Otis Elevator Company and Carrier Corporation in 2020. Hayes then led the merger of UTC's remaining aerospace businesses, Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace Systems, with the Raytheon Company, to form the new Raytheon Technologies in April 2020.
Hayes, who joined UTC in 1999 through its merger with the Sundstrand Corporation, also served as UTC's chief financial officer from 2008-2014.
Hayes holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Purdue University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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- President and Chief Executive Officer, American Pacific Corporation
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Member of the SMC Leadership Committee
- Chief Executive Officer & President, Special Aerospace Services, LLC
- Chief Executive Officer of the SAS Family of Companies
Heather Bulk is the Chief Executive Officer of The SAS Family of Companies: Special Aerospace Services (SAS), SAS Flight Factory, and Rocket Apparel. She is also co-founder of the Who Dreams Wins Foundation.
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- President & Chief Executive Officer, Booz Allen Hamilton
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- President & CEO, Kaman Aerospace Corporation
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- Manager, Space Systems / Technical Operations
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Member of the Council
- President and Chief Executive Officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation
- President and Chief Operating Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation
James Taiclet is president and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation. He became chairman in March 2021, after joining the company as president and CEO in June 2020. He has been a director on the Lockheed Martin board of directors since January 2018.
Taiclet is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Business Roundtable, and the Business Council. He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Brigham and Women's Health Care, Inc., and the Board of Directors of Catalyst. In August 2015, he was appointed to the U.S.-India CEO Forum, and, in October 2018, he was appointed co-chair of the U.S.-India CEO Forum by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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- Coordinator, Membership & Standards
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- EVP, Global Head of Aerospace, Industrials and Automotive, Infosys
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- Director, Defense Policy & Integration
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- Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships
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- Director, Legislative Affairs
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- Senior Vice President, US Government Business Development, Meggitt USA
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- VP Federal Aerospace and Defense Programs, Ansys, Inc
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- President, Integral Aerospace, LLC
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- Corporate VP Business Development Mil / Aero Defense & Security, Microchip Corporation
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- Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
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- Assistant Vice President National Security Space
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- Global Aerospace & Defense Lead, Accenture
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- President, Crane Aerospace & Electronics
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- Vice President, National Security Policy
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- President and Chief Executive Officer, AAR Corporation
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- President and CEO, GE Aviation
John S. Slattery is the President & CEO of GE Aviation, the world's leading provider of aircraft jet and turboprop engines and aircraft systems.
Prior to joining GE, John served as President & CEO of Embraer Commercial Aviation.
Before Embraer, John spent fifteen years in various executive roles at leading commercial aerospace advisory, leasing, and banking organizations.
John is a Fellow at The Royal Aeronautical Society, President Emeritus of The Wings Club Foundation and Director Emeritus of ORBIS International. John sits on the boards of directors of Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum.
An Advanced Management Program (AMP) graduate of Harvard Business School, John was awarded an MBA from University of Limerick and remains active at UL's Kemmy Business School as an adjunct professor. In November 2021, the University of Limerick awarded John an honorary doctorate in Economic Science.
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- Senior Director, Communications
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- Director, Unmanned and Emerging Aviation Technologies
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- President and Chief Executive Officer of Click Bond, Inc
In 2015, Karl Hutter became the President and Chief Executive Officer of Click Bond, Inc. Prior to becoming CEO, from 2013-2015, Karl served as the Treasurer, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer of the company.
From 2008 - 2013, Karl served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, where he focused on building Click Bond's reputation as a solutions partner, enabling Click Bond's technology on the F-35 program and numerous other key platforms across the commercial and defense aerospace sector.
Karl is a certified Airline Transport Pilot and is an active advocate for the aerospace industry.
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- Manager, Legislative Affairs
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Verify, Inc
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Northrop Grumman Corporation
Kathy Warden is chairman, chief executive officer and president of Northrop Grumman Corporation. She was elected chairman of the Northrop Grumman board of directors on August 1, 2019, and has served as Northrop Grumman CEO and president since January 1, 2019. She was elected to the company's board of directors in 2018.
Prior to becoming Northrop Grumman CEO and president, Warden served as president and chief operating officer, responsible for the operational management of the company's four sectors as well as its enterprise services organization. Her role encompassed all aspects of the company's operations, including leading engagement with the senior customer community and partners around the globe. She also led the integration of Northrop Grumman's Innovation Systems sector.
Previously, she served as corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman's Mission Systems and Information Systems sectors.
Warden has extensive experience in operational leadership and business development in government and commercial markets. Prior to joining Northrop Grumman in 2008, Warden held leadership roles at General Dynamics and the Veridian Corporation, was a principal in a venture internet firm and spent nearly a decade with the General Electric Company working in commercial industries.
Warden earned a bachelor's degree from James Madison University and a master's degree in business administration from George Washington University. Currently, she serves as the chair of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and is a member of the Catalyst board of directors and the James Madison University board of visitors.
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- Director, American Rocketry Challenge
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- Director, International Affairs & Policy Integration
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- CEO
- Executive Assistant to the President
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- Coordinator, Corporate Events / Financial Services
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- Chief Executive Officer, Belcan Corporation
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- Manager, Member Communications
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Executive VP, the Boeing Company & President / CEO Defense, Space & Security, the Boeing Company
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- Assistant Vice President, Civil Aviation
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- Mercury 's President and Chief Executive Officer
- President and Chief Executive Officer, Mercury Systems
Mark Aslett is Mercury's President and Chief Executive Officer, and is a member of its Board of Directors. He brings in-depth experience that spans the technology industry, across a variety of markets that include telecommunications, data networking, security, defense, and life sciences. Within these areas, Mr. Aslett has held strategic-level positions in or has been responsible for engineering, operations, marketing, business development, portfolio management, and general executive management.
Prior to joining Mercury, Mr. Aslett was President and Chief Executive Officer of Enterasys, and held various positions with Marconi plc and its affiliated companies, including Executive Vice President of Marketing, Vice President of Portfolio Management for Marconi Capital, and President of Marconi Communications - North America. Mr. Aslett has also held positions at GEC Plessey Telecommunications, and other telecommunications-related technology firms. He started his career at British Telecommunications plc as a software engineer.
A native of the United Kingdom and a naturalized United States citizen, Mr. Aslett has an extensive background in global business. Mr. Aslett has a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School and a First Honors bachelor's degree in digital systems engineering.
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- VP Government Relations, Embraer Aircraft Holding, Inc
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- Manager, Talent & Workforce Policy / Membership
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- Member of the SMC Leadership Committee
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- CEO, Norsk Titanium US Inc
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- Chief Commercial Officer, Howmet Aerospace ( Arconic )
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- Vice President, Space Systems
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- President & CEO, Cobham Advanced Electronics Solutions, Inc
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- President and CEO, Honeywell Aerospace
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Chairman of the Virginia Business Council
- President & Chief Executive Officer, Huntington Ingalls Industries
Mike Petters is president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, America's largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of manufacturing, engineering and management services to the nuclear energy, oil and gas markets. He is also a member of HII's Board of Directors.
Petters previously served as president of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding and as president of Northrop Grumman's Newport News sector. He joined Newport News Shipbuilding in 1987 in the Los Angeles-class submarine construction division. He held a number of increasingly responsible positions throughout the organization, including production supervisor for submarines, marketing manager for submarines and carriers, vice president of aircraft carrier programs, vice president of contracts and pricing, and vice president of human resources.
A native of Florida, Petters earned a bachelor's degree in physics from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1982, served aboard the nuclear-powered submarine USS George Bancroft (SSBN 643) and spent five years in the U.S. Naval Reserve. In 1993, he earned an MBA from the College of William and Mary.
Petters is chairman of the Virginia Business Council, a member of the Aerospace Industries Association's executive committee and a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates. He serves on the board of directors for the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation, the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education. He also serves on the board of advisors for the Center for a New American Security, the board of trustees of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation and the distinguished advisory board for the Dolphin Scholarship Foundation.
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- Vice President, Corporate Events
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- President, Aerospace Group, Eaton Corporation
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- Chairman, CEO & President, Hexcel Corporation
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- Director, Financial Services & Human Resources / Human Resources
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- Member of the SMC Leadership Committee
- SLC Chair / Northrop Grumman
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- Partner, Aerospace and Defense Sector Leader, Ernst & Young LLP
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- President & CEO, Spartronics LLC
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- Senior Coordinator, Civil Aviation, Space Systems, & Technical Operations
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- President & Chief Executive Officer, Astronics Corporation
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, General Dynamics Corporation
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Dynamics
Phebe N. Novakovic became chairman and chief executive officer of General Dynamics on January 1, 2013. She was previously named the company's president and chief operating officer, and a member of the company's board of directors, in May 2012.
Prior to her appointment as president and chief operating officer, Novakovic was executive vice president for the Marine Systems group, responsible for the performance of three General Dynamics companies: Bath Iron Works, Electric Boat and NASSCO. Previously, Novakovic had been senior vice president - Planning and Development since July 2005, where she was responsible for Government Relations, Communications, International, Investor Relations and Strategic Planning. She also has served as vice president - Strategic Planning, a position to which she was appointed in October 2002.
Before joining General Dynamics, Novakovic served as the Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1997 to 2001. In that capacity, she was responsible for managing processes for all major U.S. Department of Defense budget and policy decisions for the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Novakovic also worked for the Office of Management and Budget, where she served in a number of capacities, culminating in her selection as Deputy Associate Director for National Security where she was responsible for managing and submitting the President's budget for the Department of Defense and U.S. Intelligence Agencies.
From 1983 to 1986, she served as an operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. Novakovic began her career in 1979 as an analyst for the McLean Research Center where she performed operational analyses on Department of Defense weapon systems.
Novakovic was elected to the board of directors of Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) in 2010. She serves on the boards of trustees of Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) and Ford's Theatre, and on the boards of directors for several charitable organizations, including the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation and the National Military Family Association. She is also a member of the Council of Trustees for the Association of the United States Army.
Novakovic received her Master of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1988; she completed her undergraduate studies at Smith College in 1979.
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- President & Chief Executive Officer, Elbit Systems of America
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- EVP Chief Risk Officer, Iron Mountain
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- Senior Vice President for Policy
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- President & Chief Executive Officer, Exostar LLC
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- Assistant Vice President, Legislative Affairs
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- Managing Partner, Acorn Growth Companies
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- President & Chief Executive Officer, Therm, Inc
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Leidos Corporation
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Leidos
- Member of the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees
Roger A. Krone is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Leidos. With approximately $10 billion in annual revenue and 32,000 employees worldwide, Leidos is a recognized global leader in solving important problems in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. Before being named CEO in July 2014, Krone held leadership roles at some of the most prominent organizations in aerospace for nearly 40 years.
For Krone, the future of Leidos is one with a laser focus on its customers, shareholders, and employees. Under his strategic vision, the organization remains committed to investing in critical internal research and development efforts. He is the driving force behind the company's culture of innovation, the environment shaped to inspire employees to create innovative technology solutions that respond to client's challenges today and tomorrow.
Before joining Leidos, Krone served as president of Network and Space Systems for The Boeing Company, where he provided calculated direction for approximately 15,000 employees in 35 states and 12 countries. His organization provided integrated technologies to government and commercial customers. He joined McDonnell Douglas in 1992 serving as director of financial planning, vice president and treasurer after a 14-year career at General Dynamics, where he held positions in program management, engineering, and finance. Krone also previously served as chairman of the board of directors of the United Launch Alliance, a 50-50 joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin that helps carry weather, telecommunications, and national security satellites to space and employs more rocket scientists than any other company in the world.
Krone earned a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a master's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. A Six Sigma Green Belt, Krone is both a licensed commercial pilot and a certified public accountant. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in the United Kingdom.
Krone is a member of the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees, and a member of the board of WETA Public Television and Radio in Washington, D.C. He is a long-time supporter of the Urban League, and currently serves on the board of the Greater Washington chapter. He is also a member of the Executive Council of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Foundation's Board of Visitors.
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- President, Aerospace Group, Parker Aerospace
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- President & Managing Director, Astroscale U.S. Inc
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- Vice President, Technical Operations
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- Assistant Vice President, HCL America, Inc
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- Vice President, Marketing, National Technical Systems ( NTS )
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Textron Inc
- Manager of Electronics Design Engineering for GE 's Ocean Systems Division
Scott C. Donnelly is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Textron Inc. Donnelly joined Textron in July 2008 as executive vice president and chief operating officer and was promoted to president and chief operating officer in January 2009. He became CEO in December 2009 and was elected chairman of the board effective September 1, 2010.
Donnelly was previously president and CEO for General Electric (GE) Aviation, the world's leading producer of large and small jet engines for commercial and military aircraft and a major provider of flight management, actuation and power management systems. Prior to that, he served as senior vice president and director of GE Global Research, the world's largest and most diversified industrial research organization.
Donnelly joined GE in 1989 as manager of Electronics Design Engineering for GE's Ocean Systems Division in Syracuse, NY. He went on to serve in a variety of leadership roles for the company, including engineering management positions with then-GE division of Martin Marietta in both Australia and the United States. In 1995, he moved to GE's Industrial Control Systems business, where he held various management positions. Donnelly was named a vice president of GE in 1997, responsible for Global Technology Operations at GE Healthcare.
Donnelly received a B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he serves on its Engineering Advisory Committee. He is also on the Board of Directors for Medtronic plc and the National Air and Space Museum and the Board of Trustees for Bryant University.
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- Manager, Legislative Affairs
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- Member of the SMC Leadership Committee
- SLC Vice Chair / Huntington Ingalls Industries
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- North America Business Unit Leader, Capgemini North America, LLC
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- Manager, International Affairs
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- Director, International Programs
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Member of the SMC Leadership Committee
- President, Andrews Tool Company
- SLC Vice Chair & Small Business Representative / Andrews Tool Company
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- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ducommun
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- Senior Director, Microsoft Corporation
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- President - Defense Rolls - Royce Plc Chairman & CEO, Rolls - Royce North America, Inc
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- Vice Chairman & COO, Woodward, Inc
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- Manager, Database & Membership Operations
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- Vice President, Legislative Affairs
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- President & Chief Executive Officer, BAE Systems, Inc
Tom Arseneault is president and CEO of BAE Systems, Inc., the company's U.S.-based, international defense, aerospace, and security company with more than 35,000 employees and major operations in the U.S., UK, and Sweden. Ranking among the top 10 prime contractors to the U.S. Department of Defense, the company generated sales revenues of nearly $11.5 billion in 2019, delivering a full range of products and services across a broad and diverse portfolio for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, commercial avionics, security, IT solutions and support services. Arseneault is also an executive director on the BAE Systems plc Board of Directors, a member of the company's Executive Committee, and an officer director on the BAE Systems, Inc. Board of Directors.
Throughout his career, Arseneault has led complex organizations responsible for fulfilling critical and technologically challenging missions. Recently he served as president and COO for the organization and was integral to its return to profitable growth. Previously, he was president of the company's Electronic Systems Sector, responsible for operations spanning the commercial and defense electronics markets, and its extensive portfolio of mission critical electronic systems. He also served as executive vice president of BAE Systems' Product Sectors, responsible for articulating and executing a vision that drove optimal business performance across the Electronic Systems and legacy Land & Armaments businesses.
Prior to his senior leadership appointments, Arseneault managed various organizations and programs for Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, and he remained with the unit when it was acquired by BAE Systems in 2000. Earlier in his career, he held a variety of engineering and program management positions with General Electric and TASC.
He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Boston University.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee Leadership Team
- Member of the Officers Team
- Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
- President & CEO, Spirit AeroSystems
Tom Gentile was named president and chief executive officer of Spirit AeroSystems in August 2016 after joining the company in April 2016 as chief operating officer.
Prior to Spirit, he served as president and chief operating officer of GE Capital, overseeing global operations, IT and capital planning. Before this role, Gentile was president and CEO of GE Healthcare Systems, a $14 billion diagnostic imaging business. He also served as president and CEO of GE Aviation Services, a $7 billion global enterprise providing maintenance, repair, and overhaul as well as spare parts to GE Aviation's global fleet of jet engines for commercial airlines. Gentile began his career at GE in 1998, holding a succession of leadership roles across GE Capital in the U.S., France and Australia.
He has held numerous other leadership and strategy roles with McKinsey and Company, U.S. broadcaster CBS and General Motors. In addition, Gentile was previously chairman and continues to serve on the board of InSightec, a global leader in non-invasive image guided therapy.
An active community member, Gentile serves on the executive committee of the Aerospace Industries Association and the governing board of the Greater Wichita Partnership. Gentile is a champion of Spirit's Good Neighbor Fund employee giving program and also serves as a Trustee of the ALS Finding a Cure organization. He previously served on the Greater Milwaukee Committee, as well as on the boards of the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and the United Way of Coastal Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Gentile earned his bachelor's degree in economics magna cum laude and an MBA from Harvard University, and studied international relations at the London School of Economics.
Gentile was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He and his wife, Julie, have three children.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, 3M Government Markets, 3M Company
Job Titles:
- President and CEO, AeroVironment, Inc.