Alan Mulally

Alan Mulally is an American aerospace engineer and manufacturing executive who serves as an adjunct distinguished professor of aerospace engineering and business at the University of Kansas. He previously served as president and CEO of Ford Motor Company from 2006 to 2014 and as president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes from 1998 to 2006. He is best known for leading Ford's turnaround during the Great Recession without federal bailout funds and for his earlier work at Boeing, including leadership of the 777 program and the commercial airplane division's recovery after September 11, 2001.