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'Alan Roger Mulally' (born August 4, 1945 in Oakland, California) is an American engineer and businessman. He is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ford Motor Company.
Mulally was previously the executive vice president of Boeing and the CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA). Mulally began his career with Boeing as an engineer in 1969. Alan Mulally executive biography Mulally was largely credited with BCA's resurgence against Airbus in the mid-2000s.

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Education and personal life

Boeing

Ford Motor Company

References

External links

Education and personal life

Mulally graduated from the University of Kansas in 1969 with Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. He is also an alumni member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He also received a Master's degree in Management (S.M.) as a Sloan Fellow from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1982. [1] He has three sons and two daughters and is married to the former Jane "Nicki" Connell.^[2]

Boeing

Mulally was hired by Boeing immediately out of college in 1969 as an engineer and advanced through the company in a series of engineering and program management positions, making contributions to the 727, 737, 747, 757, and 767. He worked on the 777 program first as director of engineering, and from September 1992 as vice-president and general manager, and was also the Vice President of Engineering for the commercial airplane group. In 1994, Mulally was made the senior vice president of Airplane Development and was in charge of all airplane development activities, flight test operations, certification, and government technical liaison. In 1997, Boeing made Mulally the president of the Penial Information, Space & Defense Systems and senior vice president. This lasted until 1998 when he was made president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Chief Executive Officer duties were added in 2001.
Following the forced resignations of Phil Condit and Harry Stonecipher, Mulally was considered one of the leading internal candidates for the CEO position.^[3] When Mulally was passed over in both instances, questions were raised about whether he would remain with the company.^[4]
For Mulally's performance at Boeing, ''Aviation Week & Space Technology'' named him as their person of the year for 2006.^[5]

Ford Motor Company

Mulally was named the President and CEO of Ford Motor Company on September 5 2006, succeeding William Clay Ford, Jr., who remained as Executive Chairman of the company's Board of Directors.^[6] He took over "The Way Forward" restructuring plan at Ford to turn-around its massive losses and declining market share.^[7] Mulally revived the Ford Taurus and his cost cutting led to the company's first profitable quarter in two years.^[8]

References

1. Ford's new CEO gets .5 million to take job
2. Resume:Alan Mulally
3. With Stonecipher ouster, Boeing faces CEO dilemma
4. Boeing names 3M's McNerney new CEO
5. Mecham, M. and Velocci, A. L.: "Alan R. Mulally is AW&ST's Person of the Year.", ''Aviation Week & Space Technology''. December 31, 2006.
6. Ford names new CEO
7. Way Forward, version 3, is on the way
8. Ford CEO Mulally Faces New Challenges

External links

★ Alan Mulally executive biography at the Ford corporate web site

★ Alan R. Mulally profile at Forbes.com

★ Alan Mulally's federal campaign contributions