Speakers
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Bill Glover
Managing Director, Environmental Strategy
Boeing Commericial Airplanes
Billy Glover leads an enterprise-wide team responsible for developing and implementing a global environmental strategy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Under his leadership, the team is addressing key issues facing the aviation industry including aircraft noise reduction, greenhouse gas emissions, alternative fuels research, public policy and opinion. His cross-functional team is also providing input on key product design elements for maximizing the environmental performance of Boeing aircraft.
Glover, who previously led derivative product development for Commercial Airplanes, has held various engineering assignments with the company involving 707, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, 777 and 787 airplanes, as well as product development, research programs, and government and commercial contracts. He also has extensive experience leading government and industry relations initiatives.
Glover is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics. Glover is a member of the Industrial Advisory Committee for Herrick Labs, Purdue University and is a board member of the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG). He is co-chair of the Algal Biomass Organization.
Glover joined Boeing in 1978, after graduating from Purdue University with a Masters of Science in Engineering, with an emphasis in engineering acoustics. He received his Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Engineering in 1976 from Purdue University. In addition, Glover has completed executive education studies at the Harvard Business School.
