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Linda P. Hudson
Former Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer,
The Cardea Group, LLC
Former President and
Chief Executive Officer,
BAE Systems, Inc. (BAE)
Age: 73
Director Since: August 2012
Committee membership: Corporate Governance, ESG, and Sustainability Committee / Enterprise Risk Committee
Ms. Hudson has extensive executive leadership experience, with a focus on risk management.
She brings international perspective, geopolitical insights, and broad knowledge in strategic planning, technology, global operations, and risk management to our Board through a career in the defense, aerospace, and security industries that spanned more than 40 years. As the former President and Chief Executive Officer of BAE and the first woman to lead a major national security corporation, Ms. Hudson oversaw a global, highly regulated, and complex U.S.-based defense, aerospace, and security company, wholly owned by London-based BAE Systems plc (BAE Systems), where she also served as an executive director. Through her leadership positions, including with General Dynamics Corporation and its armament and technical products division, Ms. Hudson also brings focus and perspective to the Board’s oversight of technology and related risks, including cybersecurity risks.
Professional highlights:
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Cardea Group, LLC, a management consulting business, from May 2014 to January 2020
- Served as CEO Emeritus of BAE, a U.S.-based subsidiary of BAE Systems, a global defense, aerospace, and security company headquartered in London, from February 2014 to May 2014, and as President and Chief Executive Officer of BAE from October 2009 until January 2014
- Served as President of BAE Systems’ Land and Armaments operating group, the world’s largest military vehicle and equipment business, from October 2006 to October 2009
- Prior to joining BAE, served as Vice President of General Dynamics Corporation and President of its Armament and Technical Products business; held various positions in engineering, production operations, program management, and business development for defense and aerospace companies
- Served as a member of the Executive Committee and as an executive director of BAE Systems from 2009 until January 2014 and as a member of the Board of Directors of BAE from 2009 to April 2015
- Served as a member of the Board of Directors of The Southern Company and its Nominating, Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee and Operations, Environmental and Safety Committee from 2014 to July 2018
- Member of the Board of Directors of Trane Technologies plc (formerly Ingersoll-Rand plc) and its Compensation Committee, Sustainability, Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, and Technology and Innovation Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors of TPI Composites, Inc. and its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Technology Committee
Other leadership experience and service:
- Elected member to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer
- Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Florida Foundation, Inc. and the advisory board of the University of Florida Engineering Leadership Institute
- Former member of the Charlotte Center Executive Board for the Wake Forest University School of Business
- Former member of the Board of Trustees of Discovery Place, a nonprofit education organization dedicated to inspiring exploration of the natural and social world
- Member of the Board of Directors of UF Health, the health care system affiliated with the University of Florida College of Medicine
Other U.S.-listed company boards:
- Trane Technologies plc (formerly Ingersoll-Rand plc)
- TPI Composites, Inc.