Michael (Mike) J. Cave
Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategy
The Boeing Company
Mike Cave is senior vice president of Business Development and Strategy. He is a member of the Boeing Executive Council and is responsible for analyzing and developing plans to drive the company's growth and nurture new businesses. He was appointed to this position in November 2007, Cave, 48, also coordinates the company's Corporate Development function, with responsibility for acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, equity investments and joint ventures.
Previously, Cave served as vice president of Business Strategy & Marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, where he was responsible for leading strategic business planning and marketing for the organization's products and services.
Prior to that assignment, Cave was vice president/general manager of Airplane Programs for Commercial Airplanes. In that position, he oversaw the 737, 747, 767 and 777 airplane models with a focus on strategy, product development and business results. He had 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. 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 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 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. Cave is married with three children.
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