Aerospace
10 GE Aerospace IT leaders
These ten people hold or have held director-level or higher technology roles at GE Aerospace, including GE Aerospace's CIO, CIOs of its defense, propulsion, avionics, commercial engines and customer businesses, and leaders of hosting and data and analytics. A reader can learn how IT leaders lead technology organizations in aerospace businesses.
Professionals to explore
01—10Alf Cherry
LinkedInExperience: CIO, Technology & Operations · GE Aerospace
CIO, Technology & Operations at GE Aerospace since March 2025, and CIO, Commercial Engines & Services at GE Aerospace since December 2016. Former Sr. Director - Finance & ERP at GE Power & Water - Distributed Power (2013–2015); the profile lists IT strategy, acquisition integration and ERP implementation among its skills.
Barry Lea
LinkedInExperience: VP - Hosting · GE Aerospace
VP - Hosting at GE Aerospace since September 2025. Former Senior Director - Enterprise Infrastructure Leader (2024–2025), Data Centre Separation Leader (2022–2024), a role the profile says covered delivery of GE Aerospace global data centers, and IT DIRECTOR (2020–2022) at GE Aerospace.
David Burns
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · GE Aerospace
Chief Information Officer at GE Aerospace since April 2024, and former Chief Information Officer at GE Aerospace (2018–2022). Former SVP & CIO, Digital Industrial Product Management (2016) and VP of IT - Sales, Marketing, Commercial Engine Operations & China (2010–2014) at GE Aerospace, and former SVP & CIO at GE Lighting (2014–2015).
David Spangler
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer, Propulsion & Additive Technologies · GE Aerospace
Chief Information Officer, Propulsion & Additive Technologies at GE Aerospace since June 2025, and former Chief Information Officer (CIO), Enterprise Transition at GE Aerospace (2023–2025). Former Vice President - Digital Transformation, Information Technology at Danaher (2022–2023), and former Vice President - Business development, IT Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures (2018–2022) at GE.
Deepa Aggarwal
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director, Data & Analytics, Digital Technology · GE Aerospace
Sr. Director, Data & Analytics, Digital Technology at GE Aerospace since March 2026. Former Sr. Director, Digital Technology roles for Business Transformation (2025–2026), Sales & Marketing (2021–2025) and Commercial Engines Services (2020–2021), and former Director, Digital Technology - Commercial Engines Services (2018–2020) at GE Aerospace.
Evan Graves
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer, Avionics & Power · GE Aerospace
Chief Information Officer, Avionics & Power at GE Aerospace since December 2025; the profile describes the role as CIO of GE Aerospace's Avionics and Electric Power businesses. Former Sr Director - Supply Chain DT Leader, Edison Works (2023–2025), Sr Director - Technical Product Management (2020–2023) and Director - Technical Product Management (2018–2020) at GE Aerospace.
Jeff Schwab
LinkedInExperience: CIO, Commercial Sales and Customer Experience · GE Aerospace
CIO, Commercial Sales and Customer Experience at GE Aerospace since January 2026, and Chief Information Officer - Customer Experience since April 2025. Former Chief Information Officer, Edison Works (2023–2025), VP Digital Technology - Materials Value Stream and Aftermarket Solutions (2020–2023) and Sr. Director - Materials Value Stream (2019–2020) at GE Aerospace.
Jess Salzbrun
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer, Defense & Systems · GE Aerospace
Chief Information Officer, Defense & Systems at GE Aerospace since April 2023. Former Chief Information Officer, Military Systems Operation (2021–2023), Senior Director - Technical Product Management (2021) and Director - Technical Product Management (2018–2021) at GE Aerospace, and former Chief Product Officer at FamilyTech (2017–2018).
Kieu Nguyen
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer Commercial & Service Agreement Operations · GE Aerospace
Chief Information Officer Commercial & Service Agreement Operations at GE Aerospace since May 2025, and Senior Director, Technical Product Management since August 2022. Former Director Technical Product Management (2020–2022), Director US Agile Transformation (2019–2021) and US Agile Transformation Leader (2016–2019) at GE Aerospace.
Shinoosh McAuliffe
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer, Systems · GE Aerospace
Former Chief Information Officer, Systems (2021–2023) and former Chief Information Officer, Military Systems Operation (2018–2019) at GE Aerospace. Executive IT Leader, Supply Chain Materials at GE Aerospace since August 2023, and former Senior Director - Technical Product Management at GE Aerospace (2019–2021).
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Match the person's scope to your question: the company CIO and business CIOs suit questions about technology strategy for a segment or the whole company, while hosting and data leaders suit questions about shared infrastructure and analytics. Check whether each GE Aerospace role is current or past before asking about recent practice.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should an aerospace manufacturer split technology ownership between a company CIO and CIOs embedded in each business?
- 02What does it take to separate data centers and enterprise systems when a business becomes a standalone company?
- 03How do digital technology teams support engine services, supply chain and customer-facing systems at the same time?
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