Daryl Taylor (see photo) has been named vice president-operations and general manager at Airbus Americas' Mobile, Alabama, plant. After transition training at Airbus assembly facilities in Europe, he will take the reins from Ulrich Weber, who led the construction and commissioning of the plant, Airbus's first in the U.S. Taylor most recently has been vice president and general manager of two GKN Aerospace facilities in Kansas and California. Gena Lovett (see photo) has been appointed vice president-operations at Boeing Defense, Space & Security, headquartered in St. Louis. She succeeds Bill Schnettgoecke, who has retired. Lovett is responsible for manufacturing and company initiatives at 20 global facilities. She was most recently chief diversity officer at Alcoa, and before that director of manufacturing there.
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