Elmer L. Doty
President and Chief Executive Officer
Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc.

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Elmer L. Doty is President and Chief Executive Officer for Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc. He was appointed to this position, effective Feb. 1, 2006, by Vought’s board of directors. Mr. Doty also serves as a director on the company’s board.

Prior to joining Vought, Mr. Doty was Vice President and General Manager of BAE Systems Ground Systems Division, a position he held since July 2005, when BAE acquired United Defense Inc. (UDI). Doty had served in a substantially comparable position with UDI since April 2001, and prior to that, had served in other senior executive positions within UDI.

Mr. Doty began his career in 1975 at General Electric Company. He joined FMC in 1979 as Engineering Manager for its Agricultural Machinery Division. In 1986, Mr. Doty was named FMC’s Corporate Director, Manufacturing Engineering. He then served as General Manager of the FMC Energy and Transportation Group’s Material Handling Systems Division from 1988 to 1994. As UDI was formed through the merger of the defense businesses of FMC and Harsco Corp., he served as Vice President and General Manager for its Steel products Division from 1994 to 2001.

Mr. Doty earned a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri.

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