BAE Systems boss to leave in 2008

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

LONDON (AFP) — British defence group BAE Systems said Tuesday that Mike Turner would step down as chief executive next year.

"BAE Systems announces that Mike Turner will be stepping down as chief executive officer and leaving the board at the end of August 2008," the group said in a statement.

The company has already begun the process of appointing a successor, it added.

Turner said he had decided to retire from the company next year when he reaches his 60th birthday -- after serving the group for 42 years. He has been chief executive for the last five and a half years.

"I am pleased to be leaving a great company in such excellent financial shape and with a strong forward strategy and robust business plan," he said in the statement.

© 2007 AFP

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