Transportation
Boeing’s Key Supplier Seeks New CEO While Facing Production Defects
- Board member Patrick Shanahan will serve as interim CEO
- Tom Gentile was under pressure following manufacturing defects
Tom Gentile
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Spirit Aerosystems Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tom Gentile abruptly resigned with immediate effect, leaving Boeing Co.’s key supplier to search for a permanent successor just as the manufacturer works through a series of damaging production defects.
Patrick Shanahan, a member of the embattled company’s board of directors, was named interim CEO, Spirit said in a stock exchange filing. Gentile will serve as a consultant for three months to ease the transition, it added