Chris Raymond Biography

Chris Raymond is vice president of Business Development & Strategy for Boeing Defense Space & Security (BDS). This 61000-employee business is a broad spectrum security provider for U.S. and international customers.
Within BDS Raymond reports to the CEO and leads a team focused on listening to and serving customers' needs. His organization advocates customer views helps develop and resource customer solutions leads business capture efforts drives strategic planning and supports merger and acquisition work. The group also has responsibility for international defense-related sales activity and alliance work.
Prior to his current position Raymond was a vice president in the company's Air Force Systems group. Before joining Business Development he held leadership assignments in Engineering Supply Chain Management Program Management and Operations. He joined the company in 1986 as an engineer at its Long Beach Calif. operation.
Raymond serves on the board for the Center for New American Security as well as the National Defense Industrial Association. He also is an advisory board member of Defense Acquisition University and the National Defense Business Institute at the University of Tennessee. He chairs the BDS Senior Advisory Group and supports Boeing's business alliance with Cisco Systems. He is a member of the Air Force Association the Airlift Tanker Association the Navy League the Association of the U.S. Army and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and is a fellow in the Royal Aeronautical Society.

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