Walter (Walt) E. Skowronski
Senior Vice President
The Boeing Company
President
Boeing Capital Corporation
Walt Skowronski serves as senior vice president of The Boeing Company, and president of Boeing Capital Corporation, a wholly owned Boeing subsidiary that is primarily responsible for arranging, structuring and providing financing for Boeing's commercial airplane, and space and defense products.
Prior to accepting this assignment in November 2003, he served as senior vice president of Finance and treasurer of The Boeing Company. He was responsible for corporate finance and banking, trust investments, global treasury operations, corporate development, risk management, financial planning and analysis, and investor relations.
Skowronski came to Boeing in 1999 from Lockheed Martin Corp., where he served as vice president and treasurer. He was elected to this position in March 1995 upon the merger of Lockheed Corp. and Martin Marietta Corp. and developed the new treasury organization. Skowronski previously served as vice president and treasurer, and vice president of Investor Relations at Lockheed, which he joined in 1990. In addition, he served from 1987 to 1990 as a part-time instructor of corporate finance and investor relations at Northeastern University Graduate School of Business Administration. Prior to joining Lockheed, he served in a number of finance positions at NSTAR Corporation.
A Phi Kappa Phi graduate, Skowronski earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, Mass. Throughout his undergraduate studies, he interned with and was sponsored into the Power Systems program by the General Electric Company. He earned his master of business administration degree in corporate finance from Boston University.
Skowronski is a former director of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) and in 1989 served as its chairman and chief executive officer. He is a member of the Financial Executives Institute and currently serves on the board of directors of the Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO). He also serves or has served on numerous charitable and cultural boards, including The Seattle Opera, both the Chicago and Seattle Symphony Orchestras, Chicago's Metropolitan Family Services, Seattle's PONCHO (Patrons of Northwest Civic, Cultural and Charitable Organizations), Washington D.C.'s Boy Scouts and Los Angeles' Greater YMCA.
Born Oct. 29, 1948, in Pittsfield, Mass., Skowronski resides with his wife in Kirkland, Washington.
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