Boeing CIO Susan Doniz to leave company, CEO tells employees

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(Bloomberg) — Boeing Co. Chief Information Officer Susan Doniz is leaving the company, Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg told employees in a memo on Friday.

Dennis Eng will take over as interim head of the Information Technology & Data Analytics team until the company announces a new leader, Ortberg said in a memo viewed by Bloomberg News. The change is effective immediately.

The departure marks the fifth member of Boeing’s executive council to step down since Ortberg took over as CEO in early August. Ortberg has been working to turn around the planemaker after years of scandal and turmoil, along with a series of crises this year that began when a door-shaped plug blew out of an airborne 737 Max in early January.

Doniz joined Boeing in 2020 from Australia’s Qantas Airways Ltd., where she had held a similar role since 2017. She’s had more than 25 years of experience at companies such as SAP SE, Aimia Inc. and Procter & Gamble Co.

Earlier this month, Boeing’s chief lobbyist and the head of its powerful Washington, DC, operation, Ziad “Z” Ojakli, left the company. Other senior leaders who’ve departed Boeing include former defense division chief Ted Colbert and Brian Besanceney, who was communications chief.

Boeing has had to weather a bipartisan bashing by US lawmakers over quality and safety lapses this year, including the grilling of former CEO Dave Calhoun by a Senate subcommitttee. The company is in the process of reducing staffing by 10%, or about 17,000 jobs, with Ortberg saying the job cuts would be felt at all levels of the company.