17 Facts About Dave Calhoun

David L Calhoun was born on April 18,1957 and is an American executive who was the president and chief executive of Boeing from January 2020 to August 7,2024.

Dave Calhoun was previously Boeing's chairman and was appointed CEO after his predecessor Dennis Muilenburg was fired amid safety concerns with the Boeing 737 MAX following two fatal crashes that claimed the lives of 346 passengers and crew on board.

Dave Calhoun was born April 18,1957, in Allentown and grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Dave Calhoun attended Parkland High School in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1975.

In high school, Dave Calhoun was one of three captains of the varsity basketball team and played golf.

Dave Calhoun attended Virginia Tech, graduating in 1979 with a degree in accounting.

Dave Calhoun decided to join GE in part because he would be working in Lehigh Valley in eastern Pennsylvania, where he grew up.

Dave Calhoun worked at GE for 26 years, overseeing transportation, aircraft engines, reinsurance, lighting and other GE units, before being appointed vice chairman and a member of GE's Board of Directors in 2005.

Dave Calhoun left GE to join privately held global information services firm VNU as CEO in 2006.

In 2014, Dave Calhoun became executive chairman of Nielsen, and joined The Blackstone Group as a Senior Managing Director and head of Private Equity Portfolio Operations.

At Boeing, Dave Calhoun was a director, starting in 2009, and was named lead independent director in 2018.

Dave Calhoun separated the roles of chairman and chief executive officer in the fall of 2019 so that Muilenburg could "implement changes to sharpen Boeing's focus on product and services safety", according to a press release.

In March of 2024, Boeing announced that Dave Calhoun would be stepping down at the end of the year.

Dave Calhoun added that he had been "shaken to the bone" by the accident.

Dave Calhoun received the same $1.4 million salary as in 2021.

In March 2023, Boeing announced Dave Calhoun was being given shares worth $15 million that will vest in installments over three years.

In 2018, Dave Calhoun gave $20 million to Virginia Tech to create the Dave Calhoun Honors Discovery Program.