Boeing CFO Kicks Off Spring 'Executive Insights' Speaker Series

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (January 23, 2008) – Penn State's Smeal College of Business will host Robert J. Pasterick, vice president and chief financial officer for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, on Feb. 8 as the first speaker this spring in the college's guest speaker series, Leadership in Focus: Executive Insights.

Pasterick will join Smeal Dean James B. Thomas for an on-stage conversation at 11:15 a.m. in the Business Building's Struthers Auditorium, during which Thomas will pose questions submitted by  the audience. The event is open to students, faculty, staff, and the public.

As vice president and CFO, Pasterick is responsible for the overall financial management of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, the Boeing Co.'s jetliner manufacturing group. Previously, he served as Commercial Airplanes vice president and controller. In this capacity, he was responsible for the group's accounting, financial planning and reporting, pricing, estimating, and cost management activities. He also has served as vice president of Financial Planning and Analysis for The Boeing Co.

He joined Boeing through the company's acquisition of the aerospace and defense units of Rockwell in December 1996.

Pasterick is a member of the boards of directors of The Seattle Aquarium and Boeing Reality Corp. He sits on the CFO Council at the University of Washington and the Puget Sound CFO Roundtable, and is involved with the March of Dimes.

He holds a bachelor's degree in economics and an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Leadership in Focus: Executive Insights, an initiative started in the 2006-2007 academic year, is designed to complement the Smeal educational experience by bringing high-profile business leaders to the college to connect with students, faculty, and administrators to share some of their experiences in leadership.

In addition to Pasterick, this semester Executive Insights will host Dennis M. Nally, chairman and senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers' U.S. firm, on April 1, and James R. Stengel, global marketing officer of Procter & Gamble Co., on April 11.

James Clifton, chairman and chief executive officer of The Gallup Organization, Smeal alumna Julie McHugh '86, company group chairman of Global Virology Business for Johnson & Johnson, and alumnus Stephen Sheetz '69, chair of Sheetz, Inc., spoke in the fall 2007 series.

Previous Executive Insights guests also include Art Rooney II, president of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and James Turley, chairman and chief executive officer of Ernst & Young.

For more information on the Executive Insights series, visit www.smeal.psu.edu/about/lecture/execin.html.