Primary Job Title President & CEO Primary Organization 
GE Aviation
Location Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Regions Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male Also Known As Brad D. Mottier
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Brad D. Mottier is President and Chief Executive Officer at GE Aviation.
Prior to this appointment, Brad served as vice president and general manager of GE Aviation's Services operation and was named a company officer of General Electric Company in 2005.
Brad was president and chief executive officer of Unison Industries, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Aviation's Services operation, which was acquired in 2002. Prior to the acquisition, he worked for more than 20 years at Unison, holding various roles of increasing responsibility. These roles included senior development engineer, engineering manager, materials manager, quality control manager, product line manager, sales and marketing manager, operations manager, vice president of marketing, senior vice president and executive vice president. Brad also holds several patents in ignition technologies.
He is a 1979 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana, where he earned a Bachelor degree in general engineering. He also has earned a Master degree in engineering degree from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Brad is vice president of the Sontag Foundation; former chairman of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA); member of the President's Council for the University of Illinois, and a distinguished alumni of the Department of General Engineering and the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois. In May 2014, Brad was honored with the Business Aviation Laureate Award by Aviation Week.
