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PHILIP
(PHIL) M. CONDIT
Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer
The Boeing Company
 Phil
Condit is chairman and chief executive officer of
The Boeing Company, the world's largest aerospace
company. As the largest manufacturer of satellites,
commercial jetliners, and military aircraft, the
company employs close to 167,000 people and serves
customers in 145 countries. It is also a global
market leader in missile defense, human space
flight, and launch services. Boeing has
headquarters in Chicago, Ill., and is the largest
exporter in the United States, with revenues of
more than $54 billion in 2002. Under Condit's
leadership, several mergers and acquisitions have
transformed the company into a broad-based, global
enterprise. The acquisition of Rockwell Aerospace,
the merger with McDonnell Douglas and the addition
of Hughes Space & Communications has
established a company with great strength and
breadth. Today, Boeing is strongly positioned in
commercial airplanes, defense, space, information
technology, financing, and
communications.
Elected president and member
of the board of directors of Boeing in 1992, Condit
added the title of chief executive officer in 1996.
In 1997, he was elected chairman. He is the seventh
chairman since the company was founded in
1916.
Condit's career has spanned
more than 35 years of service to Boeing in almost
20 assignments. Condit joined Boeing in 1965 as an
aerodynamics engineer on the Supersonic Transport
(SST) program. He was promoted to lead engineer for
the Boeing 747 high-speed configuration airplane in
1968 and was named the 747 performance lead
engineer in 1971. Within a year, he advanced to
manager of the quiet short-haul system development
program, and then became manager of 727 marketing
in 1973. He entered the Sloan Fellowship program at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974.
Upon completion of his year of study at MIT, he
returned to Boeing as manager of new program
planning in 1975. A year later, he became director
of program management for the 707/727/737 Division.
He was named 757 chief project engineer in 1978,
and director of 757 engineering in 1981.
Condit was named vice
president and general manager of the 757 Division
in 1983. Later that year, he became vice president
of the Renton Division, which built the 707, 727,
737 and 757 airplanes. In 1984, Condit was promoted
to vice president of sales and marketing for Boeing
Commercial Airplane Company, serving during a
period of exceptional sales. He was appointed
executive vice president of Boeing Commercial
Airplane Company in 1986 and, in 1989, executive
vice president and general manager of the New
Airplane Division, which subsequently became the
777 Division.
Condit is the author of
several published papers on commercial aircraft
technology and holds a patent, awarded in 1965, for
the design of a flexible wing called the sailwing.
He also led the team that launched the wide-body
Boeing 777 airplane, and he pioneered management
concepts that integrated design/build teams of
customers, suppliers and employees to design and
produce the 21st-century jet. The 777 "Working
Together" team has received numerous aeronautical
awards, including the prestigious Collier
Award
He received a bachelor's
degree in mechanical engineering from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1963; a
master's degree in aeronautical engineering from
Princeton University in 1965; a master's degree in
management from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1975; and, in 1997, a doctorate in
engineering from Science University of Tokyo, where
he was the first Westerner to earn such a degree. A
proponent of lifelong learning, he often meets with
students and teachers, and has introduced a unique
program to encourage and reward Boeing people who
pursue learning throughout their careers. Condit is
the co-chair of Achieve, a nonprofit organization
that helps states raise academic standards. In
recognition of his commitment to education, the
United Negro College Fund awarded him the
prestigious Frederick D. Patterson Award in
1999.
Condit serves on the board
of Hewlett-Packard Company, is co-chairman of the
Trans Atlantic Business Council, and is chairman of
the Business Roundtable. Elected a member of the
National Academy of Engineering in 1985, he is also
an honorary fellow of the Royal Aeronautical
Society and an honorary fellow of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He
belongs to the Society of Automotive Engineers and
has chaired the NASA Advisory Council's Aeronautics
Advisory Committee. A Distinguished Eagle Scout
Award winner, Condit is past president of the Chief
Seattle Council of the Boy Scouts of America and
now serves on the national board. In 1999, he
received the Aerospace Industry Distinguished Good
Scout Award from The Boy Scouts of America, Los
Angeles Area Council. He was recognized with the
award for his volunteer efforts in the community
and in scouting programs. Since 1997, he has been a
member of the board for Seattle's A Contemporary
Theater (ACT) and currently serves as
chairman.
He has won numerous awards
for engineering and management achievements,
including the Japan America Society's 1997 Kokusai
Shimin Sho, or International Citizens Award, for
global leadership in the private sector; the
Financial World Chief Executive Officer of the Year
award for 1997; the 1997 Ronald H. Brown Standards
Leadership Award for advancing international
standards; the 1998 Peter F. Drucker Strategic
Leadership Award; the 1998 University of
California, Berkeley, Distinguished Engineering
Alumnus Award; in June 1999, the Distinguished
Eagle Award from the Air Command and Staff College;
and the 1999 International von Karman Wings Award
from The Aerospace Historical Society.
A native of Berkeley,
Calif., Condit was born on Aug. 2, 1941. He has
been an aviation enthusiast his entire life and
earned a pilot's license at the age of
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