Kathy Warden Named AIA Board Chair, Mike Petters to Serve as Vice Chair

Kathy Warden – chairman, CEO and president of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and five-time Wash100 winner — has been appointed to succeed Kelly Ortberg as chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association's board of governors.

Warden will be succeeded by Mike Petters – president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a previous Wash100 awardee — as vice chair, AIA said Tuesday.

Eric Fanning, a past Wash100 Award recipient, will continue to lead the association over the next year as president and CEO, while Ginette Colot will retain in her role as secretary-treasurer.

AIA's 2021 executive committee members will include:

Eileen Drake, president and CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne
Eric DeMarco, president and CEO of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions
Dave Kaufman, chief operating officer of Ball Aerospace
Heather Bulk, co-founder and CEO of Special Aerospace Services
James Taiclet, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin
John Slattery, president and CEO of GE Aviation
Kelly Ortberg, special adviser to the Office of the CEO at Raytheon Technologies
Leanne Caret, executive vice president at Boeing and four-time Wash100 winner
Mark Aslett, president and CEO of Mercury Systems
Mike Madsen, president and CEO of Honeywell Aerospace
Nanda Kumar, president of the aerospace group at Eaton
Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics
Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos
Scott Donnelly, chairman, president and CEO of Textron
Sol Kanthack, president of Andrews Tool Co.
Thomas Bell, president and CEO of Rolls-Royce North America
Tom Arseneault, president and CEO of BAE Systems Inc.
Tom Gentile, president and CEO of Spirit AeroSystems
William “Bill” Brown, chairman and CEO L3Harris Technologies