Boeing has appointed a long-serving third-generation worker to one in all its high jobs as a part of its management shakeup.
In his Monday announcement that he’d be stepping down as CEO of Boeing, Dave Calhoun additionally named Stephanie Pope as the brand new head of its industrial airplanes division.
She replaces Stan Deal as CEO of Boeing Business Airplanes, which designs and builds planes such because the 777, 787 Dreamliner and the 737 household. It is based mostly in Seattle, has factories in Renton and Everett, Washington state and employs 60,000 individuals worldwide.
In January Pope took up the newly created position of Boeing COO. She reported on to Calhoun and oversaw BCA, Boeing’s protection, house, and safety division, and Boeing World Providers.
Calhoun mentioned in his memo to employees on Monday: “With almost 30 years of expertise at Boeing, together with her profitable tenure main our world providers enterprise, Stephanie is aware of our firm in and out and has a confirmed monitor report of excellent management, together with an innate expertise for listening and responding to our individuals.
“Stephanie is a third-generation Boeing worker. She is deeply dedicated to our firm, to our staff and to our shared future; and she or he is the proper individual to tackle the management of our industrial airplanes enterprise.”
Pope’s new position comes amid intense scrutiny of Boeing’s security report after the Alaska Airways blowout that Calhoun described as a “watershed second.”
Pope began as a finance analyst at Boeing in 1994 and have become CFO for the protection, house, and safety division in 2012, based on her LinkedIn profile.
She was CEO of the worldwide providers division earlier than turning into COO and has additionally held senior roles in different enterprise items together with industrial airplanes.
In her place on Boeing’s government council, Pope sponsors a enterprise useful resource group devoted to selling gender variety.
Pope was an Eisenhower Fellow in Brussels and Eire in 2008 and has a bachelor’s diploma in accounting from Southwest Missouri State College and an MBA from Lindenwood College.Â
