About
Ms. Eileen P. Drake has served as an Independent Director at Marathon Petroleum Corporation since 01, March 2024. She is Chief Executive Officer and President at Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. She served as the Chief Operating Officer of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. from March 02, 2015 to June 2015. She served as Vice President of Quality and Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) at Pratt & Whitney Company, Inc. since November 2006 and also served as its Vice President of Aeropower, Vice President of Quality & Environment, Vice President of Health & Safety and General Manager of Aeropower. She served as Vice President and General Manager of Auxiliary Power Systems at Hamilton Sundstrand Power Systems (Also known as UTC Aerospace Systems). She was previously with United Technologies Corporation (UTC) from November 2003 through February 2015, where she served as President of Pratt & Whitney AeroPower’s auxiliary power unit and small turbojet propulsion business from January 2012 to January 2015. She served as Vice President of Operations at United Technologies Corporation (UTC) from May 2009 to 2012 and was responsible for providing strategic leadership to UTC’s manufacturing and quality disciplines and led the core supply management functions including logistics, procurement and supplier development. She served as Vice President of Quality, Environmental Health & Safety and Achieving Competitive Excellence, UTC 2003 – 2009 and served United States Army 1989 – 1996. She joined UTC in 2003. She served at both the Ford Motor Company between 1996 and 2003 and Visteon Corporation and served in positions including Ford’s Product Line Manager for steering systems and Plant Manager of Visteon’s fuel system operation. She was a Director of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc. from June 1, 2015, until July 28, 2023, and is an Independent Director at Woodward, Inc. since February 15, 2017. Ms. Drake is an accomplished, dynamic leader with extensive experience in profit and loss management, operations, quality and supply chain. She has extensive experience in the Aerospace industry. She holds her commercial and private pilot’s license in both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. She served on active duty as a US Army Aviator and Airfield Commander of Davidson Army Airfield in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. She is on the Board of Governors of the Aerospace Industries Association, the National Board of Directors of Girl Scouts of the United States of America and as National Space Council’s User Advisory Group. She has aerospace and defence industry knowledge and is an operational expert. Ms Drake is a Distinguished Military Graduate of the U.S. Army Aviation Officer School. She received her M.B.A. from Butler University and her B.A. in Political Science from the College of New Rochelle.
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Committee/s
| Company | Committee | Role | Appointment Date | Resignation Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodward | Board | Member | 01/02/2017 | |
| Woodward | Remuneration | Member | 01/02/2017 | |
| Woodward | Executive | Member | 01/02/2017 | |
| Woodward | Nominations & Governance | Member | 01/02/2017 |