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Mike Cave is vice president of Business Strategy & Marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes and is responsible for leading strategic business planning and marketing for the organization's products and services. Appointed to this position in November 2006, Cave reports to Commercial Airplanes President and Chief Executive Officer Scott Carson.
Prior to this assignment, Cave was vice president/general manager of Airplane Programs for Commercial Airplanes and oversaw the 737, 747, 767 and 777 airplane models with a focus on strategy, product development and business results, with overall profit and loss responsibility for those models.
For most of 2003, Cave served as senior vice president for Commercial Aviation Services, where he was responsible for ensuring support to the world's largest fleet of commercial jetliners - almost 12,000 Boeing-built airplanes.
Cave served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Commercial Airplanes from November 2000 through January 2003, where he was responsible for the financial management of the segment, as well as its business strategy to return greater value to customers, shareholders, employees and the community.
He previously served as vice president - Finance for Commercial Aviation Services, vice president - controller for Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, and vice president - Finance for the twin-aisle programs.
Prior to joining Commercial Airplanes, he was vice president - Finance for Boeing's Information, Space & Defense Systems, a position he assumed following the merger of The Boeing Company and McDonnell Douglas Corporation. Just prior to the merger, he headed the team to merge the two companies' commercial airplane units.
Cave joined McDonnell Douglas in 1983, where his assignments included: vice president and chief financial officer for Douglas Aircraft; vice president and general manager of Business Management, Military Transport Aircraft, and general manager of Contracts and Pricing for McDonnell Douglas Aerospace. He also held positions of increasing responsibility in Estimating, Contracts and Cost Proposal management at various divisions of McDonnell Douglas.
Cave was honored with the 2004 Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation (HENAAC) award for Executive Excellence. In 2003, Cave was recognized as a member of the Hispanic Corporate Elite by the Hispanic Business Magazine. He also was named one of the 100 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business for 2006 by Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology magazine.
Cave serves on the board of directors for the Seattle Symphony, on the Dean's Advisory Council for Purdue University and is a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Purdue University.
He was born on June 11, 1960 and is married with three children. | 