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Rex D. Geveden, President, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc.
President, Energy and Power Systems Segment
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Rex Geveden is a 25-year veteran of the space and defense industries with broad-ranging experience in both the government and private sectors. Trained in physics, he began his career in systems analysis and engineering and progressed into project management, program management, operations, and executive management. At NASA he last held the position of Associate Administrator, where he functioned as the agency’s chief operating officer. In his present position at Teledyne Technologies, he is responsible for two of the four operating segments of the corporation.
Rex Geveden became president of Teledyne Brown Engineering in August 2007. In this position, he leads the Engineered Systems segment of Teledyne Technologies, with responsibility for the near-term growth and profitability and long range strategic positioning of the business. |
Engineered Systems delivers a wide range of capabilities and products to the aerospace, defense, and energy markets, including engineering services, engineered products, operations, and precision machining and manufacturing. Along with wholly-owned subsidiaries Teledyne Solutions and Teledyne CollaborX, the Engineered Systems segment comprises some 1800 employees located in 23 states, producing annual revenues of about $370 million.
In January 2008, Geveden also assumed leadership of the $80M Energy & Power Systems segment of Teledyne Technologies. This segment, which includes Teledyne Turbine Engines, Teledyne Energy Systems, and Teledyne Battery Products, specializes in components and integrated systems for commercial and government markets. Products include general aviation aircraft batteries, hydrogen generators, fuel cell test equipment, radioisotope thermal electric generators, and small turbines for unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles.
Previously, Geveden was Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) where he was responsible for all technical operations of the agency and a budget of 16 billion dollars. He worked with the Administrator to develop strategy and policy and had direct oversight of NASA’s ten field centers and all missions and flight programs, including the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, planetary exploration, space science, and aeronautics. Geveden previously held the position of NASA Chief Engineer where he was integral to the return-to-flight efforts following the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Prior to that, he served as Deputy Director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, where he was jointly responsible for managing one of NASA’s largest field installations, with more than 6,500 civil service and contract employees and an annual budget of $2.3 billion covering programs as diverse as the Space Shuttle propulsion system and Earth science payloads. In a previous capacity, as program manager for Gravity Probe B (GP-B), Geveden led a government, industry, and university team in developing a sophisticated scientific spacecraft to test two features of Einstein’s general relativity theory. GP-B launched successfully in April 2004.
Geveden serves on the Board of Visitors of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is also an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and won the Holger Toftoy award for outstanding technical leadership in 2004.
Geveden holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from Murray State University and is a graduate in Program Management from the Defense Systems Management College. He also holds a certificate of financial management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
He has received numerous awards including the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award, NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, and Silver Snoopy Award. He was also honored by his home state as an Outstanding Alumnus of Kentucky and granted the honorary title of Kentucky Colonel.
Geveden and his wife, Gail, make their home in Madison, Alabama.
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