Boeing

William Edward Boeing was an American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company. Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan to a wealthy German mining engineer named Wilhelm Böing who had made a fortune and who had a sideline as a timber merchant. Anglicizing his name to "William Boeing"... after returning from being educated in Switzerland in 1900 to attend Yale University, William Boeing left Yale in 1903 to go into the lumber side of the business. He bought extensive timberlands around Grays Harbor on the Pacific side of the Olympic Peninsula. He also bought into lumber operations. While president of Greenwood Timber Company, Boeing, who had experimented with boat design, travelled to Seattle, where, during the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909, he saw a manned flying machine for the first time and became fascinated with aircraft. In 1916, Boeing went into business with George Conrad Westervelt as B & W and founded the Pacific Aero Products Co. When America entered the First World War in April 1917, Boeing changed the name of Pacific Aero Products Co.
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Mr. Collins has been CEO of Medtronic since April 2001 and chairman since April 2002. He joined the company in 1992 as president, Medtronic... International with responsibility for all Medtronic operations outside the United States. Mr. Collins came to Medtronic after 14 years with Abbott Laboratories where he was corporate vice president with responsibility for Abbott's worldwide diagnostic business units, and held a number of management positions in the United States and Europe. He is a member of the Audit Committee and the Finance Committee.
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