People Category: Speaker Types

Teresa (Teri) M. Finchamp

Teri Finchamp serves as the director of the Future Production System team in Product Development for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. In this role she leads efforts to create and optimize a production system for the company’s next new airplane. Her team emphasizes safety,stability and repeatability. Previously she held the position of director of Production System Engineering on the New Mid-Market Airplane (NMA) program for BCA.

Finchamp earlier served as director of Advanced Operations and Quality of Phantom Works within Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS). In this position, she provided functional support by implementing cutting edge affordability initiatives into programs around Phantom Works, a research and development organization that designs, builds, tests and operates prototypes across a variety of environments – from space to seabed.

Prior to this position, Finchamp managed teams on the Joint Strike Fighter program. She led a fabrication team on the X-45C, which later operated under the name Phantom Ray. During her tenure with the program, the team completed a successful flight test program. She also served in a manufacturing leadership role on the Phantom Eye program.

Beginning her management career as a foreman on the F/A-18 program in 1996, Finchamp was promoted within a year to general foreman and moved into Phantom Works.

Her career with Boeing started in 1988, when she hired in as an industrial engineer for the F-18 and C-17, later adding responsibilities for T-45 and AV8B where she gained technical expertise in advanced aircraft and program quality excellence. Prior to her Boeing career, Finchamp worked with Ryerson Steel for three years in fabrication.
Finchamp holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering management from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Missouri – St. Louis.

Karl Hutter

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In 2015, Karl Hutter became the President and Chief Executive Officer of Click Bond, Inc. Prior to becoming CEO, from 2013-2015, Karl served as the Treasurer, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer of the company. From 2008 – 2013, Karl served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, where he focused on building Click Bond’s reputation as a solutions partner, enabling Click Bond’s technology on the F-35 program and numerous other key platforms across the commercial and defense aerospace sector.

Prior to leading the sales department, Karl spearheaded the company’s business development and applications engineering efforts across the Asia Pacific region, creating a strong foundation for global growth, particularly in Japan, China, and Australia. Karl holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science and in Entrepreneurial Management and Operations management from the Wharton School.

Karl is a certified Airline Transport Pilot and is an active advocate for the aerospace industry. He serves on the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) Board of Governors Executive Committee and Civil Aviation Leadership Council, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) Board of Directors, the Aerospace Locknut Manufacturers Association (ALMA) Board of Directors, and the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) Board of Directors . He is and the immediate past-Chairman of the Carson City Nevada Airport Authority and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cardigan Mountain School.

Eric Barnes

Eric Barnes is currently a Northrop Grumman Fellow in Advanced Manufacturing and Emerging Programs. He is responsible for the Aeronautics System Sector Additive Manufacturing (AM) Technology portfolio and integration of Additive Manufacturing across Northrop Grumman Corporation. Eric has over 30 years of experience in materials, processes and Manufacturing research and development, implementation, design, and production support. Prior to his current role, Eric was the Sector Manager of Air Vehicle Materials and Processes Engineering, including materials research and development.

Eric has led the development, implementation and strategy for polymer and metallic additive manufacturing on multiple air and space programs and has received three additive manufacturing patents and has six patents pending.

Mr. Barnes has managed many DoD contracts from AFRL, DARPA, ONR, Army Research Labs and NASA in the areas of additive manufacturing, coatings, polymer composites, automation, drilling, and metals. In addition to the aforementioned R&D programs, Eric has worked on the F/A-18 E/F, B-2, F-35, NASA Reusable Launch Vehicle, Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile, Targets, among others.

Eric is active in several societies including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and Society for the Advancement of Materials and Processes Engineering. He has also served the broader additive manufacturing community as the Northrop Grumman Governance Board representative at America Makes. Eric has participated in many government AM road mapping and strategy activities and at the request of the director of DOE Advanced Manufacturing Office, performed a peer review of DOE’s Manufacturing Development Facility and their Additive Manufacturing Center. Eric was the Industry Chair of the MAI Consortium for three years and a Director/ Board member of the MAI Association for over ten years.

Education:

BS, Mechanical Engineering, CSULB

MS, Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA

Systems Engineering certificate, California Institute of Technology

Walt Odisho

Walt Odisho is vice president of Manufacturing, Safety and Quality for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, and is responsible for ensuring the Commercial Airplanes global production system consistently operates in an aligned, integrated and effective manner. He also leads the Commercial Airplanes focus on employee safety. In July 2017, the Quality organization was combined with Manufacturing and Safety to strengthen Commercial Airplanes’ unified production system approach.

Prior to joining Boeing in 2014, Odisho was vice president of Manufacturing for Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing America, in Erlanger, Kentucky. In this role, he was responsible for the overall management of assembly production and logistics at Toyota’s largest manufacturing facility in North America.

Odisho joined Toyota in 1989 as an engineer in the company’s truck division. In 1991, he transitioned into a quality assurance role. From 1993 to 2010 he held various leadership positions in production, manufacturing, new model launches, plastics, body structure engineering, fabrication and assembly. In 2011, he was named as the general manager of Assembly at Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Kentucky and two years later, he was named vice president of Manufacturing.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from California State University (CSU), Fresno and attended the Wharton Business School of Management. He has served on the CSU Eastbay and Cal-Poly advisory boards as well as the Governors Manufacturing advisory board for the State of Kentucky.

Noel Duerksen

Dr. Noel Duerksen has a Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Wichita State University. He has authored papers concerning advanced flight control concepts for general aviation including the use of neural networks and fuzzy logic systems. He has been a professor for flight dynamics at Wichita State and supervised several NASA and FAA funded university project as an industry advisor.

Dr. Duerksen worked at Beech Aircraft as a Test Pilot and Advanced Design Engineer for 23 years and became an Engineering Fellow. Notable projects as Test Pilot were the Starship, Beechjet and a fly-by-wire Bonanza with automatic landing for which he was the project engineer, algorithm developer and programmer.

Dr. Duerksen worked at Garmin for 14 years as an Automatic Flight Controls Engineer, Test Pilot and Staff Engineer where he was instrumental in developing Garmin’s avionics systems including synthetic vision, FMS, autopilot, auto throttle, under speed protection, Electronic Stability and Protection system and Fault Tolerant Architecture. He was also the technical lead for the Emergency Autoland system and developed several of the underlying algorithms.

He has and Airline Transport Pilot License, and is type rated in the Beechjet. He is also a single engine, multi-engine and instrument airplane flight instructor as well as a helicopter and helicopter instrument flight instructor.

Dr. Duerksen is now a consultant working with the FAA and NASA to develop a certification path for advanced cockpit concepts.

Gene Holloway

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As our CSO, Gene leads our company’s objective to elevate Aerion as a global thought leader in environmental responsibility and sustainability.

Gene is passionately committed to environmental responsibility and creating a more sustainable world through work at the intersection of advanced technologies, environment, public good, and the protection of our planet. He works with all organizations within Aerion, across our industry team, and with outside organizations to ensure we meet our environmental and sustainability objectives.

Prior to Aerion, his 45-year aerospace career spanned positions with NASA, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin in advanced concepts development, systems integration, and air vehicle production, testing and delivery. Gene’s experience in technology commercialization and licensing, joint venture development, industrial participation, market analysis, and strategic planning will aid Aerion to ensure a global transition to sustainable aviation fuels, ensure natural resource management to significantly increase carbon sequestration from the atmosphere, and effectively communicate, educate, and grow advocacy for Aerion’s approach to a sustainable next generation of global transportation networks..

Gene holds a Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering from Auburn University and a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School.