It’s not too often that the national news runs an update that talks about someone I know, so when the alert came up on the NY Times app this morning, it was pretty cool: Kelly Ortberg is becoming the new CEO of Boeing.

Kelly was the CEO at Collins Aerospace (where I work) for several years prior to our merger with United Technologies back in 2018. I presented to him in meetings at least a few times when he was in a VP/GM role probably 11-12 years ago. Always thought he was a good guy. I’m have hope that he will be the right guy to turn things around at Boeing.