James (Jim) F. Albaugh
Executive Vice President
The Boeing Company
President and Chief Executive Officer
Commercial Airplanes
Jim Albaugh is executive vice president of The Boeing Company and president and chief executive officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. He is responsible for all of the company's commercial airplanes programs and related services. Named to this position effective September 1, 2009, Albaugh, 59, is a member of the Boeing Executive Council and serves as Boeing's senior executive in the Pacific Northwest.
Prior to his current position, Albaugh was president and chief executive officer of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, a business unit providing integrated solutions to meet the needs of defense, space and intelligence customers in the United States and around the world.
Previously, Albaugh was president and CEO of Boeing Space and Communications (S&C), for four years. This unit merged in July 2002 with the company's Military Aircraft and Missiles Systems unit to create Integrated Defense Systems.
Before leading Space and Communications, Albaugh was president of Boeing Space Transportation, a predecessor unit that was folded into S&C. He assumed that position after serving as president of Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power, part of the Rockwell aerospace and defense businesses acquired by Boeing in 1996.
A Washington state native, Albaugh joined the company in 1975 as a project engineer at its Hanford, Wash., operations.
Albaugh, a Gold-and-Silver-Knight of the National Management Association and was that organization's Executive-of-the-Year in 1999. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics. In 2001, Albaugh was awarded the Bob Hope Distinguished Citizen Award by the National Defense Industrial Association; received the International von Karman Wings Award from the Aerospace Historical Society; and was elected a Fellow to the Royal Aeronautical Society. In 2003, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. In 2006, he was elected a member of the TRW Automotive board of directors; received the Semper Fidelis Award from the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation; and was elected a member of the Aerospace Industries Association Board of Governors Executive Committee. In 2007, he was elected to the Willamette University Board of Trustees. In 2008, he received the Southern California Aeronautic Association's prestigious Howard Hughes Memorial Award for his extensive contributions to the aerospace industry. He also was appointed to the board of the National Competitiveness Center, an independent organization that helps Saudi Arabia compete more effectively in the global economy.
Albaugh also is a member of the American Astronautical Society, the Air Force Association, the Council of Trustees of the Association of the United States Army and the California Business Roundtable, and sits on the boards of a variety of corporate and charitable organizations.
Albaugh holds bachelor's degrees in mathematics and physics from Willamette University and a master's degree in civil engineering from Columbia University.
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