Boeing has tapped Kelly Ortberg (LinkedIn) as its new CEO effective 8 August, Bloomberg reports. Ortberg — who succeeds current CEO Dave Calhoun — will be tasked with steering a huge turnaround for the embattled company. He comes with extensive experience in the aviation sector, having previously held the role of CEO at RTX Corp aviation supplier subsidiary Rockwell Collins.

A long-time coming: Boeing announced back in March that Dave Calhoun was to step down by the end of the year and that the firm was on the hunt for a replacement. The shakeup in Boeing’s leadership comes amid a crisis for the company that started with a January incident where a panel detached mid-flight on a Boeing jet.

REMEMBER- Emirates President Tim Clark hinted at the need for changes in Boeing’s leadership earlier in March. “When you change the governance model, it invariably involves changing the people around the old governance model,” Clark said.

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