David Calhoun

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David L. Calhoun , also Dave Calhoun (born April 18, 1957 ), is an American manager . He was CEO of the Nielsen Company from 2006 to 2013 and then moved to the Blackstone Group as Senior Managing Director .

He has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Boeing since October 11, 2019, and as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) from January 13, 2020 .

Life

Calhoun graduated from Virginia Tech , where he graduated in 1979 with a degree in accounting. He worked for General Electric and its subsidiaries for 26 years . At the beginning of his career, he held various positions in sales, finance and marketing, including at GE Plastics and GE Capital . Management positions followed at GE Lighting, GE Employers Reinsurance Co., GE Aircraft Engines and GE Transportation (aircraft and railways). Most recently, he was company vice president and CEO of GE Infrastructure , the company's largest business unit.

In 2006 the Nielsen Company was taken over by several groups of investors, including the Blackstone Group. It was originally a Dutch information and media company. David L. Calhoun has been appointed as the new CEO. In the seven years of his chairmanship, Nielsen was able to establish himself as the world's leading market researcher with branches in 100 countries and around 40,000 employees. He listed the company on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011 . He has been on the Boeing Group 's Board of Directors since 2009 . He is also a member of the Caterpillar Board of Directors .

In 2010 he published together with Rick cash the book How Companies Win ( "How to win business") . The authors add a fifth P to the classic four P's of marketing - product, price, promotion, place -: Precision. Coca-Cola manager Joseph Tripodi praised this P as "a powerful new tool".

In 2014 he moved from Nielsen to the Blackstone Group, based in New York. He was Senior Managing Director there and heads the portfolio operations . In addition to his previous functions, he assumed increasing responsibility there in the midst of the most serious crisis in the history of aircraft manufacturer Boeing. With effect from April 30, 2018, he was appointed as Lead Director . He also acts as Chairman of the Governance, Organization and Nominating Committee and was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board on October 11, 2019. He took over one of the two management functions from Dennis Muilenburg after Boeing was in massive distress due to the crashes of two MAX 737s in Indonesia and Ethiopia with 346 fatalities, the subsequent flight ban and the slump in production.

Calhoun has been named as a possible CEO for Boeing in previous years. After Dennis Muilenburg's resignation on December 23, 2019, it was announced that he would also take over the position of CEO from January 13, 2020.

Book publication

Together with Rick Kash : How Companies Win . Harper Business 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-200045-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dave Calhoun Joins Blackstone to Head Private Equity Portfolio Operations blackstone.com, accessed March 23, 2020
  2. ↑ DMM: David L. Calhoun new Boeing CEO , accessed December 23, 2019
  3. ↑ Dinah Deckstein, Martin U. Müller : Resignation of Dennis Muilenburg: The real drama behind the departure of the boss at Boeing . In: Spiegel Online . December 23, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 7, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Boeing : Corporate Governance , accessed October 14, 2019
  5. ↑ Amazon : How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You're In ,
  6. ↑ Business Insider : Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg stripped of his title as chairman nearly a year after the first of 2 deadly crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets , October 12, 2019
  7. ↑ Bloomberg News : Boeing CEO, Removed as Chairman, Near Last Chance on 737 Max , October 13, 2019, 10:52 pm CEST, updated October 14, 2019, 3:43 pm CEST
  8. ↑ Handelsblatt.com: Change of boss at Boeing: Dennis Muilenburg resigns, David Calhoun takes over , accessed on December 23, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Calhoun, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calhoun, David L .; Calhoun, Dave
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1957