DENNIS MUILENBURG
Dennis Muilenburg is Co-Founder of New Vista Capital and serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Muilenburg has more than 35 years of experience in the aerospace and defense sector, with extensive leadership, global business, and engineering responsibilities. He also serves as Chairman of the Board for the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Center – St Louis.
Most recently, Muilenburg was President and Chief Executive Officer from 2015 to 2019 and Chairman of the board of directors from 2016 to 2019 at The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA). Starting at the company as an engineering intern in 1985, Muilenburg’s multi-decade career spanned every dimension of Boeing’s global customer base across commercial airplanes, defense & space, and services, as well as the company’s extensive engineering, operations, supply chain, acquisitions, investment portfolio, and stakeholder sets.
Muilenburg also served as a member of the Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) board of directors from 2011 to 2020, chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association board of governors, an executive committee member of the Business Roundtable; as a member of the National Space Council’s User Advisory Group, the U.S.-China Business Council, the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation board of directors, the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology) board of directors; and as a trustee of Washington University, the National World War II Museum, and Northwestern University. Muilenburg also currently serves as a board member and senior advisor for a broad portfolio of private advanced-technology companies.
A native of Iowa, Muilenburg earned a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering and an honorary doctor of science degree from Iowa State University, as well as a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the University of Washington. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Royal Aeronautical Society, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the inaugural Innovator in Residence at Iowa State University, and a distinguished fellow at the Saint Louis University Research Institute. He also serves as chairman of the board for Biblical Business Training, as a member of The CEO Forum board of directors, and a member of the African Vision of Hope board of directors.