Stephanie Pope

Executive Vice President; President and Chief Executive Officer, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Boeing

Last Reviewed: October 3, 2026

Executive Summary

Stephanie Pope has run Boeing Commercial Airplanes as president and chief executive since March 2024, overseeing the design, production and delivery of Boeing’s jetliners, a business with an in-service fleet the company puts at more than 13,000 aircraft. She joined Boeing in 1994 and built her career in finance, as head of financial planning and analysis and as chief financial officer of both the services and commercial airplanes businesses, before running Boeing Global Services and then serving as the company’s chief operating officer. She now leads the business she once kept the books for. She is an Eisenhower Fellow and sponsors Boeing’s women’s leadership group.

Career Highlights

• Executive Vice President; President and CEO, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, since March 2024.
• Chief Operating Officer of Boeing, January 2024 to February 2025.
• President and CEO of Boeing Global Services, 2022 to 2023.
• Chief Financial Officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, 2020 to 2022, and of Boeing Global Services, 2017 to 2020.

Professional Journey

Pope earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting at Southwest Missouri State University and an MBA at Lindenwood University. She joined Boeing in 1994, and her career there spans three decades of roles at the corporate, business unit and program levels.

In finance she was vice president of financial planning and analysis for the company from 2013 to 2016, vice president of finance and controller for Boeing Defense, Space & Security in 2016, chief financial officer of Boeing Global Services from 2017 to 2020 and chief financial officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes from December 2020 to March 2022.

In April 2022 she became executive vice president and president and chief executive of Boeing Global Services, which Boeing says she led through its recovery and growth after the pandemic. In January 2024 she became Boeing’s chief operating officer, overseeing supply chain, quality, manufacturing and engineering across the company, and in March 2024 also took over Boeing Commercial Airplanes, focusing on it exclusively from February 2025.

She sits on Boeing’s Executive Council and is executive sponsor of Boeing Women Inspiring Leadership, a business resource group promoting women’s representation. She was an Eisenhower Fellow in Brussels and Ireland. Boeing builds commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems and provides aerospace services, and employs about 182,000 people, according to the company.

She runs one of Boeing’s three businesses, alongside Steve Parker at Defense, Space & Security and Chris Raymond at Global Services, the business she led before him. Chief engineer Howard McKenzie, who leads engineering across the company, was chief engineer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes from 2021 to 2023.

Education

Southwest Missouri State University

Bachelor’s degree, Accounting

Lindenwood University

MBA