Spirit AeroSystems Holdings has released that Jane P. Chappell will join the company's Board of Directors, effective February 26, 2024. She will serve on the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and the Risk Committee. Chappell has more than four-decades of experience, 17 years at the executive level, providing operational and strategic leadership in the defence industry.
Chappell serves as CEO of Altamira Technologies, a national security company in the defence and intelligence sectors. She is on the Board of Advisors for Lone Star Analysis. Before Altamira, Chappell was with RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon) for 36 years. Her service at RTX Corporation culminated with her role as Vice President of GeoSpatial Intelligence Solutions from 2015 to 2019. She partnered with customers and industry teammates in this position to shape markets and drive growth in the intelligence, commercial, and international space ground business.
“Jane Chappell is an established leader in the American defence and intelligence sectors; we are thrilled that she will serve on Spirit's Board of Directors,” said Spirit AeroSystems Board Chair Robert D. Johnson. “Her leadership and depth of experience are unparalleled – she will undoubtedly add tremendous value as we grow across our defence and space programmes. We look forward to her contributions.”
Chappell was named among Washington Exec's Top Space Executives in 2023 and one of Washingtonian's “Tech Titan in 2023.” She won the National Reconnaissance Office Director and National Reconnaissance Office Ground Enterprise Directorate Director's Gold medal for outstanding contributions to the mission in 2020 and 2019. She earned the Raytheon CEO Leadership Award in 2008.
