James E. Phillips

Member FPRI Board of Trustees

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Jim Phillips is the Mobility Division Chief Financial Officer, a division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security. As a world leader in designing, developing and manufacturing transport products, which include the C-17 Globemaster II, the CH-47 Chinook, the V-22 Osprey and the new KC-46A Tanker. All are lynchpins in U.S. military aviation as well as aviation programs the world over. Mobility division has 8800 employees in two major sites -- Ridley Park, PA and Long Beach, CA; along with employees in Mukilteo, WA, St. Louis, MO, and Wichita, KS. Mr. Phillips was named to this position in October of 2010. He was previously the CFO for the Rotorcraft Division of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems and was also responsible for the Finance functional leadership for the Ridley Park, PA and Mesa, AZ sites. During his 33 years with Boeing and Rockwell Aerospace and Defense (acquired in 1996), he has held a broad range of positions within Finance and served at various levels of the Corporation. His recent assignments included CFO C3 Networks Division, CFO Launch and Satellite Systems, Division Director, Finance - Huntington Beach Air Force Systems Programs; Controller, Satellite and Ground Control Systems; and Director, Financial Planning & Analysis for Space and Communications Group. He attended Pepperdine University on a baseball scholarship and graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration. He joined the company as an Accounting Analyst in the Saberliner Division of Rockwell International. During that time he attended Pepperdine University in the evenings to earn his MBA.

FPRI Wishes to Thank its 2011 Partners
Who help make all our programs possible.

On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.

FPRI 2011 Annual Dinner

Video of keynote address
Reflections on the Arab Spring
Fouad Ajami

Special Partner Event
Al Qaeda and Jihadi Movements After Bin Laden
Christopher Swift

Special Partner Event
The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al Qaeda
Peter Bergen

FPRI Dinner Booklet and Annual report