Tue, Jun 10, 2003
Bell Helicopter's Walsh Promoted to Textron Corporate
Bell
Helicopter executive Ian Walsh has just been promoted to Director
of Pricing Strategy for Textron Inc., Bell's parent company. In
making the announcement, Textron Chief Operating Officer Steve
Loranger said, "Ian will lead the Pricing Initiative, which will be
responsible for designing, developing, and leading breakthrough
pricing strategies throughout Textron."
Troubleshooter:
For the past four years, Mr. Walsh has been at
Bell Helicopter, most recently serving as a Six Sigma Black Belt. A
Black Belt's role is to eliminate defects in products, services,
and processes by using a proven methodology and statistical
tools.
Prior to entering Black Belt training, Mr. Walsh was the
Director of Marketing for Bell's commercial business unit. In that
capacity, he was responsible for customer advocacy, customer
applications analysis, market segment management and business
development. Previously he was manager of marketing and business
development and e-commerce, during which he organized and led one
of Bell's new marketing departments responsible for identifying and
developing new customers and markets across the globe.
Mr. Walsh has masters degrees from both the Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard as well as from the Harvard School of
Business. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps
from 1989-1996 in various capacities including pilot of an AH-1W
SuperCobra attack helicopter and manager of the aircraft
maintenance division of a Marine Special Operations unit. He
also led a logistics division as well as a safety and training
standardization departments for the Marines.
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