- James A. Bell
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name = James Aaron Bell
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birth_date = birth date and age|1948|6|14
occupation = Corporate President, CFO & Executive Vice President of The Boeing CompanyJames A. Bell ( Born
June 4 ,1948 in inLos Angeles ,California ) is currently the Corporate President, Executive Vice President andChief Financial Officer of The Boeing Company.cite web |url=http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/execprofiles/bell.html |title=James A. Bell Executive Biography |publisher=The Boeing Co. |date=2008-04-01 |accessdate=2008-06-12] He served as interimPresident andChief Executive Officer of the Boeing on March, 2005, following the resignation ofHarry Stonecipher . He returned to his singular role as Boeing's CFO onJune 30 ,2005 following the appointment ofJim McNerney as the newPresident ,Chairman , andChief Executive Officer of theBoeing Company .. He was appointed Corporate President in June 2008.Early life
He was born in
Los Angeles, California , the youngest of four children. His mother Mamie was a formerLos Angeles County government clerk. His father died in 2003.He earned his bachelor's degree inAccounting fromCalifornia State University, Los Angeles . A partial scholarship helped pay for his first year of college, but he had to earn enough to pay his way through the remainder of school.Fact|date=June 2008Career
In 1972 he joined the
Rockwell company as an accountant. At that company he followed a path intomanagement , from corporate senior internalauditor to accounting manager and finally as manager of general and cost accounting. He joined Boeing in 1996 when Rockwell's aerospace and defense units were acquired.Within Boeing he has held positions as vice president of contracts and pricing for the company's space and communications division. He later became senior vice president of finance and corporate controller. In November, 2004 he became the company's
Chief Financial Officer , following the firing ofMichael M. Sears due to a government contract scandal. . He is a member of the board of directors ofDow Chemical Company, theJoffrey Ballet , the Chicago Urban League, World Business Chicago, the Chicago Economic Club and New Leaders for New Schools.References
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