Chris Raymond

Executive Vice President; President and Chief Executive Officer, Boeing Global Services Boeing

Last Reviewed: October 3, 2026

Executive Summary

Chris Raymond has been president and chief executive of Boeing Global Services since January 2024, leading the company’s aerospace services business for commercial, government and aviation industry customers: fleet sustainment, spare parts and distribution, digital tools, training, engineering and modifications, and cabins and interiors. A Boeing employee since 1986, when he started as an engineer in Long Beach, California, he spent much of his career running defense businesses, including as the first head of Boeing’s autonomous systems division, then moved into strategy and became the company’s first chief sustainability officer. His career has repeatedly involved standing up new functions at Boeing before running one of its three main businesses.

Career Highlights

• Executive Vice President; President and CEO, Boeing Global Services, since January 2024.
• Senior Vice President and Boeing’s first Chief Sustainability Officer, 2020 to 2023.
• Vice President, Sustainability, Strategy and Corporate Development, 2019 to 2020.
• First Vice President and General Manager of Autonomous Systems, 2015 to 2018.

Professional Journey

Raymond earned a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering at the University of Illinois and an MBA at the University of California, Irvine. He joined Boeing in 1986 as an engineer at its Long Beach, California operation.

Within Boeing Defense, Space & Security he was vice president and general manager of several businesses, in integrated missile defense, sensors and signals intelligence and undersea capability, and vice president of global business development and strategy. From 2015 to 2018 he was the first vice president and general manager of Autonomous Systems, a division focused on autonomous aviation and marine technologies and intelligence capabilities.

He moved to enterprise strategy in April 2019 as vice president of sustainability, strategy and corporate development, and in October 2020 became senior vice president and Boeing’s first chief sustainability officer, responsible for its approach to aerospace sustainability, stakeholder engagement and reporting.

In January 2024 he became executive vice president and president and chief executive of Boeing Global Services, and he sits on the company’s Executive Council. Boeing builds commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems and provides aerospace services, and employs about 182,000 people, according to the company. He is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and serves on the University of Illinois Aerospace Engineering Board, the Wolf Trap Foundation board and the George W. Bush Institute Advisory Council.

He runs one of Boeing’s three businesses, alongside Stephanie Pope at Commercial Airplanes and Steve Parker at Defense, Space & Security. Pope led Global Services immediately before him, from 2022 to 2023.

Education

University of Illinois

Bachelor’s degree, Aeronautical Engineering

University of California, Irvine

MBA