Matthew Ganz
President
Phantom Works
Dr. Matthew Ganz is president of Phantom Works, the advanced research and development unit of The Boeing Company. Ganz leads a team of approximately 1,800 employees that provides innovative system solutions and breakthrough technologies that significantly reduce the cycle time and cost of developing and producing aerospace products while improving their quality and performance.
Phantom Works solutions apply to Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Integrated Defense Systems, as well as the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Major Phantom Works locations are Seattle, Huntington Beach, Calif., and St. Louis. Other locations include Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Huntsville, Ala., Madrid, Spain, and Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia.
Before coming to Boeing in February 2008, Ganz was president, CEO and general manager of HRL Laboratories in Malibu, Calif. Before joining HRL in 2003, Ganz spent two years as sector vice president for strategy and technology for Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems in Irving, Texas and El Segundo, Calif. At Northrop Grumman, Ganz helped develop technology strategy for a $3 billion operation that included the B-2 stealth bomber and eight other major military aircraft.
In 2000, Ganz founded Navigator Technology Ventures in Cambridge, Mass., as a spin-off from The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and served as managing director and CEO of the seed-stage venture capital firm until 2001. The previous two years, Ganz was vice president of technology and programs at Draper Laboratory.
Ganz was with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., from 1992 to 1998 as a program manager in the Special Projects Office and as director of the Sensor Technology Office. Before that he was with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory Radar Systems Group in Lexington, Mass., as an associate group leader from 1986 to 1992 and with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., from 1982 to 1984 as an associate staff member.
Ganz holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, all from The Ohio State University.
He has been a member or chairman of more than 10 Defense Science Board study panels, and he has been a board member of several privately held companies.
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