Wesley G. Bush
American businessperson. Retired Chairman, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Wesley G. Bush is an American systems engineer and business executive. He is the former CEO and chairman of Northrop Grumman, and he is currently a director of General Motors, Dow Inc., GE Aerospace, and Cisco.
Bush was raised in Morgantown, West Virginia. He has both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He started work as a systems engineer at TRW Inc. in Redondo Beach, California, in 1987. By the early 2000s, he was president and chief executive of its "British-based aeronautical systems." Northrop bought the company in 2002, and took over his contract.
He was chief operating officer of Northrop Grumman from 2003 to 2006, and chief financial officer from 2005 to 2007. He was appointed its president in May 2006, and in January 2010, became chief executive officer. In the same year he moved its headquarters from Los Angeles, California to Falls Church, Virginia, to be closer to The Pentagon and to be more competitive with other companies in the sector.
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