Frank Connor was named Textron's executive vice president and chief financial officer in August 2009. Connor oversees Textron's Finance functions as well as Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategy, Information Technology and International. In addition to chairing the company's Finance Committee, he serves on Textron's Executive Leadership Team.

Connor is a 22-year veteran of Goldman, Sachs & Co. where, most recently, he was managing director and head of Telecom Investment Banking. Prior to that, he served as Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s chief operating officer of Telecom, Technology and Media Investment Banking. During his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Connor advised companies across a wide range of industries and executed numerous public and private financings and strategic transactions.

Connor earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago. Connor is a director of Factory Mutual Insurance Company (FM Global) and of Cohen & Steers, Inc.

E. Robert Lupone joined Textron in February 2012 as executive vice president, general counsel, secretary and chief compliance officer. He is responsible for Textron's legal, ethics and compliance, secretary and environmental health and safety functions. He also oversees Textron Innovations Inc., the enterprise intellectual property management and licensing organization. Lupone is a member of Textron's Executive Leadership Team.

Before coming to Textron, Lupone served as senior vice president and general counsel of Siemens Corporation (U.S.) and as general counsel of Siemens AG for the Americas, overseeing its legal and compliance functions. Throughout his 20-year career at Siemens, Lupone managed a broad array of legal functions for Siemens management and operating groups, including litigation, M&A, corporate law, commercial and finance law, compliance and regulatory matters, government contracting, technology licensing, employee benefits, real estate and environmental matters.

Prior to joining Siemens, Lupone was vice president and general counsel of Price Communications Corporation, and earlier in his career, an attorney specializing in mergers, acquisitions, and securities at the New York-based international law firms of Fried, Frank, Harris Shriver & Jacobson and Rogers & Wells. He is a graduate of Brown University and Georgetown University Law Center.

Lupone is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Association of Corporate Counsel; American Bar Association – Sections of Business Law, International Law, Law Department Management and Committee of Corporate General Counsel; and Aerospace General Counsel Group. He is on the Board of Visitors of Georgetown University Law Center and the Board of Advisors of the Georgetown Law Corporate Counsel Institute. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the Brown University Alumni Association, the Brown Annual Fund Leadership Council, and as a Board member of the Providence Performing Arts Center.

As president and chief executive officer, Ron Draper is the leader of Textron Aviation, encompassing the Cessna, Beechcraft and Hawker brands.
Draper joined Textron in 1999, and has held various leadership roles in Textron business units, including eleven years at Textron Aviation. His previous roles at Textron Aviation include senior vice president of Integrated Supply Chain (ISC); and director of production control and logistics; and director of Supply Chain Management. Draper also served as vice president of Integrated Supply Chain and director of Strategic Sourcing for Textron Specialized Vehicles; and director of Procurement for the V-22 program at Bell Helicopter.
While serving senior vice president of Integrated Supply Chain at Textron Aviation, Ron was responsible for overseeing the manufacturing operations for all Beechcraft and Cessna commercial products including the Beechcraft King Air lines and Cessna Citation lines. Seven different products – the Cessna Citation Latitude, Citation X+, Citation Sovereign+, Citation CJ3+, Citation M2, Cessna TTx, and Cessna Grand Caravan EX – have all attained entry into service under his leadership in ISC.

Prior to joining Textron, Ron served as a Captain in the United States Army as a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter pilot and company commander. His overseas assignments included tours in Bosnia, South Korea and Germany. Ron is also a fixed-wing pilot and enjoys flying the Cessna Skylane and other Textron Aviation fixed wing aircraft.

Ron received a bachelor’s degree in engineering management from the United States Military Academy in 1990, and he earned an MBA from Wichita State University in 2001.

An active member of the community, Ron serves on the board of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and is a previous board member for the Golden Harvest Food Bank of Augusta, Georgia. He is a frequent leader of Textron Aviation’s Uplift organization, whose mission is to assist employees and communities in locations where the company operates facilities.

Rob Hotaling was named president of Textron Financial Corporation in January 2024. Hotaling brings more than 30 years of commercial finance experience to his role, including 25 years with Textron Financial. He has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility within the business, serving most recently as senior vice president & chief credit officer. Hotaling has also led Operations, Collections and Portfolio Management for Textron Financial in providing financing solutions to our Bell and Textron Aviation customers around the world. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt.

A U.S. Air Force veteran, Hotaling is a graduate of Southern Illinois University and holds an MBA from Oklahoma City University. Additionally, he has completed Textron’s Senior Executive Leadership Program and its Executive Leadership Program and received an Executive Certification in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Kriya Shortt is president and chief executive officer of Textron eAviation, a business segment that is pursuing Textron’s long-term strategy to offer a family of sustainable aircraft for urban air mobility, general aviation, cargo and special mission roles.
In this role, Shortt oversees the development and expansion of Pipistrel as a Textron eAviation business. Shortt leverages the work across Textron’s aerospace and defense businesses in developing new opportunities to take advantage of fixed wing and rotorcraft expertise in emerging aerospace technologies and markets.
She is responsible for building external partnerships and creating a path for the further development and utilization of aircraft electrification and connected mobility technologies in the global market.

Most recently, Kriya served as Textron Aviation’s senior vice president of Global Parts and Distribution as well as president of Able Aerospace, a component repair and overhaul business for rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft, and McCauley Propeller Systems.

Kriya began her career with Cessna in 1996 as part of the customer service organization and has held various roles of increasing responsibility throughout her career including contract account management and aircraft sales.  In 2012, Kriya joined the Cessna Senior Leadership Team as vice president of Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa, before joining the company’s executive leadership team as senior vice president of Sales and Marketing, overseeing global sales initiatives for Citation, turboprop and piston products. Kriya then led Textron Aviation’s global aftermarket service and support for the installed base of Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker aircraft. In that role, she oversaw general aviation’s largest worldwide customer service network as well as the product support teams and partnerships with authorized service facilities.

Kriya has a bachelor’s degree in French from the College of the Ozarks and an MBA from Webster University. She is a graduate of the Textron Executive Leadership Program at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and of the Senior Executive Leadership program at Duke University. Kriya currently serves as a member of the NBAA Leadership Advisory Council, which offers the NBAA Board of Directors guidance on business member interests, government representation, industry programs, communication efforts and educational initiatives. She resides in Wichita, Kansas, with her family and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Wichita Children’s Home. 

Janet S. Fogarty was named Textron's vice president and deputy general counsel in June 2020. She is responsible for managing the Corporate legal staff with primary responsibility for overseeing all non-litigation legal matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, SEC-related matters, corporate finance, antitrust, ethics and compliance, global trade compliance and intellectual property. Fogarty is a member of the enterprise-wide Legal Council and leads the Legal Council Working Group.

Fogarty joined Textron Financial Corporation in 2004 as in-house counsel, and held positions of increasing authority, culminating in her role as senior vice president and assistant general counsel. Prior to joining Textron Financial Corporation, Fogarty was an attorney in private practice in Rhode Island.

She received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and her B.A. in economics from Boston College.

Scott P. Hegstrom was appointed vice president, Mergers & Acquisitions, for Textron Inc. in December 2014. In this position, he is responsible for overseeing and managing Textron's global business development activities, including mergers, acquisitions and strategic partnerships. In addition, he serves on Textron's enterprise-wide Finance Council.

Hegstrom joined Textron in 2014 as the company’s executive director, Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior to joining Textron, he was vice president of business development for Rackspace Hosting, Inc., preceded by 12-years in investment banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he advised numerous companies in executing strategic transactions as well as public and private financings.

Hegstrom received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University. He earned his Master of Business Administration from University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business with concentrations in finance and strategic management.

Todd A. Kackley is vice president and chief information officer for Textron Inc. In this role, he leads the business unit chief information officers and the Textron Information Services (TIS) organization. He oversees Textron's Information Management Council and manages Textron's information technology supplier and outsourcing relationships.

Prior to his current role, Kackley was executive vice president and chief information officer for Bell where he developed and executed IT and digital strategy, aligning business systems, infrastructure, cybersecurity and development capabilities to the needs of the business.

Kackley joined Textron in 2008 and held various positions of increasing responsibility within IT at Textron Corporate, Bell and Textron Systems, where he was named vice president and CIO in 2015. Before joining Textron, he held various leadership positions focusing on IT strategy and enterprise system implementations within the United States and internationally.

Kackley earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan and his bachelor's degree in business administration from Baker College. He also completed Textron's Senior Executive Leadership Programs at Duke University and the University of North Carolina. He currently serves as a governing body co-chair of the Dallas Evanta CIO Forum. He also participates as a volunteer member on the American Cancer Society’s CEOs Against Cancer North Texas Chapter board.

Thomas N. Nichipor was appointed vice president, Audit Services of Textron Inc. in March 2014. He is responsible for global audit services activities at Textron and serves as an officer of the corporation. Nichipor is also a member of Textron’s Finance Council.

Previously, Nichipor was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Textron Financial Corporation's non-captive business, a position he held since March 2011. Prior to that, he was Textron Financial’s vice president and corporate controller and was the principal accounting officer for the company. In this role he was responsible for the accounting and reporting of the company’s financial results to both the Securities Exchange Commission and company leadership. Prior to joining Textron in 2003, Nichipor spent seven years in audit management roles at Deloitte & Touche LLP and Arthur Andersen LLP and served large corporate clients, primarily in the financial services and energy industries.

Nichipor earned a bachelor’s degree in Management and Accounting from Fairfield University and obtained his Certified Public Accountant license while working at Arthur Andersen LLP. He has also completed Textron's Senior Executive Leadership Program at Duke University.

Eric Salander was appointed as treasurer in January 2018. He has been a Textron corporate officer since August 2016 when he was named vice president, Investor Relations. In addition, he is a member of Textron's Executive Leadership Team and serves on Textron's enterprise-wide Finance Council.

Eric previously served as senior vice president and chief financial officer for Textron Aviation, the world's leading manufacturer of general aviation aircraft. Eric joined Cessna Aircraft Company (now Textron Aviation) in February 2010 after serving as executive director of financial planning and analysis for Textron Inc. In this role, he was responsible for directing Textron's financial planning and analysis processes across all business units and corporate departments in support of the Textron's budgeting, financial reporting, management reporting, external communications and portfolio management activities.

Prior to joining Textron in May 2004, Eric was senior vice president of Finance for Textron Financial where he was responsible for all accounting and financial planning and analysis operations. He was an audit manager with Ernst & Young prior to joining Textron Financial.

Eric is a CPA and has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration along with a Master of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Rhode Island.

He is a graduate of the Textron/Wharton Global Leadership Forum at the University of Pennsylvania, Textron’s Executive Leadership Program at the Thunderbird School of Global Leadership, and Textron’s Senior Executive Leadership Program (SELP) at Duke University.