GKN chief executive elected president of SBAC

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(1999), "GKN chief executive elected president of SBAC", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 71 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.1999.12771fab.039

GKN chief executive elected president of SBAC

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CK Chow, chief executive of GKN plc, has been elected as President of the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC). He becomes the Society's 61st President. CK Chow became chief executive of GKN in January 1997 following over 20 years at the BOC group where his final post was managing director on the main board in 1994. Since his appointment at GKN the company has implemented a global cultural change programme and embarked on an ambitious growth strategy which has been expressed through a series of acquisitions, strategic initiatives and organic investment. He says:

Aerospace is a sector in which the UK is acknowledged as a global leader. It is the role of the SBAC to support the industry to maintain that position of advantage. We will do so if we are truly international and objective in our thinking while losing no opportunity to remind the UK of the power and contribution of its aerospace industry. I am deeply honoured to have been asked to take up the role of President during such momentous times and at such a significant milestone in the history of this great industry.

Two further Officers of the SBAC have also been elected. Ken Maciver, executive vice president and general manager of Lucas Aerospace, a TRW company, became vice president and Gordon Page, chief executive of Cobham plc became treasurer.