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Dec 11 (Reuters) – Boeing (BA.N) on Monday named company veteran Stephanie Pope to the newly created position of chief operating officer, likely making her one of the top contenders to take over from CEO David Calhoun when he decides to step down from the role.
Pope currently heads the company’s after-market business, Boeing Global Services (BGS), the only segment to report a profit through the first nine months of this year as supply chain issues and cost overruns were a drag on its other two units – commercial airplanes and defense.
Boeing said Pope would assume the job effective Jan. 1 and that the heads of commercial planemaking and defense businesses would report to her. Her successor…
