波音Boeing任命新商用飞机部门主管雷蒙德·康纳Raymond Conner
【风尚中国 北京时间6月27日上午消息】波音公司（Boeing Co）当地时间6月26日任命商用飞机部门主管雷蒙德·康纳(Raymond Conner)，雷蒙德·康纳曾任工程师和销售员，波音希望雷蒙德·康纳能帮助公司与空客争夺每年1000亿美元的飞机市场。
据悉，此前召开的法恩伯勒航展（Farnborough Airshow），航展上波音宣布计划提高包括波音787在内的客机产量，在被美国空客夺取大额订单后恢复在单通道客机市场的领导地位。
波音称，雷蒙德·康纳接替前商用飞机部门主管吉姆-阿尔博(Jim Albaugh)。
雷蒙德·康纳现年57岁，于1977年加入波音，曾在机械部门、工程部、供应链部门和销售部门工作，上一个职位是波音客机集团销售与客户支持高级副总裁。
吉姆-阿尔博现年62岁，将在今年10月1日退休，波音退休标准年限为37年。业内分析师对波音此次高层变动持积极看法，赞成任命销售主管接替精通工程的吉姆-阿尔博。
投资公司BB&T Capital Markets分析师卡特·利克（Carter Leake）称，“商用飞机销售是以客户为中心的工作。雷蒙德·康纳比吉姆-阿尔博更擅长飞机销售，并且雷蒙德·康纳比波音任何人接触的客户都更多。”
雷蒙德·康纳(Raymond Conner)简历
Raymond Conner is executive vice president of The Boeing Company and president and chief executive officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. He is responsible for all the company's Commercial Airplanes programs and services, is a member of the Boeing Executive Council and serves as Boeing's senior executive in the Pacific Northwest. Conner was named to this position in June 2012.
Prior to this assignment, Conner had responsibility for leading Sales, Marketing and Commercial Aviation Services for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, having been appointed to the position in August 2010.
Prior to that, Conner was vice president and general manager of Supply Chain Management and Operations for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Appointed to the position in December 2008, he was responsible for overall leadership of Commercial Airplanes Supplier Management, Fabrication and Propulsion Systems and the Manufacturing and Quality functional organization.
For the year before that assignment, Conner was vice president of Sales for Commercial Airplanes, with responsibility for the sale of commercial airplanes and related services to airlines and leasing customers around the world.
Between February 2003 and December 2007, Conner was vice president of Sales for the Americas. As such, he was responsible for the Boeing business relationships with airline customers in North America and Latin America and for the sale of commercial airplanes to customers in those regions.
Before that assignment, Conner was vice president and general manager of the 777 program, beginning in June 2001.
Before leading the 777 Program, Conner was vice president of Asia/Pacific Sales for Commercial Airplanes. In that role, Conner led the Asia/Pacific sales team and was responsible for maintaining Boeing's business relationships with Asia/Pacific airlines and Asian aerospace industries. He also was responsible for the operation of Boeing offices in China, Japan and Korea.
In addition, Conner served as vice president and general manager of the 747 program, overseeing a team that managed the design, development certification and production of the 747 airplane.
Before that assignment, Conner was vice president of the Propulsion Systems Division, where he led the development of propulsion systems and auxiliary power units for the entire Boeing family of commercial airplanes.
Before leading Propulsion Systems, Conner was director of Finance and Information Systems for the Materiel Division of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. There, he was responsible for developing and implementing strategies to lower costs and achieve higher productivity in the procurement of contracts from suppliers around the world. Conner also oversaw information systems support for remote site networking, electronic commerce and workstation upgrades.
Previously, Conner held various other management positions in the company, including deputy director of Major Outside Production and Program Participants, and of International Business Operations, both in the Materiel Division.
As the Boeing Commercial Airplanes sales director for Thailand, Conner led a group working with the U.S. Government on political issues affecting the company.
He joined the company in 1977 as a mechanic on the 727 program.
Conner holds a bachelor degree from Central Washington University and a master in business administration from the University of Puget Sound.
