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- Dr. Jean J. Botti, CTO of EADS
Dr. Jean J. Botti, born on 14 April 1957, is Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of EADS and a member of the EADS Executive Committee. He has corporate responsibility for Technology, Quality and Information Technology.
Prior to assuming this position in May 2006, Dr. Botti served as the business line executive for Powertrain and Executive Director Fuel Cells with Delphi Corporation.
Dr. Botti began his career in 1978 at Renault and became Senior Project Engineer. He joined Genaral Motors in the United States in 1989. In 1990, he became Staff Project Engineer at the Saginaw Steering Systems Division of General Motors. From 1992 until 1997, Botti returned to France as its Director of European Engineering and was then named Director Customer Solution Center, a position he continued to hold with the Delphi Corporation until 2002. From that year on until 2004, he managed the newly created corporate Dynamics, Propulsion and Thermal Innovation Center as the Chief Technologist.
Dr. Botti holds 12 patents and four defensive publications for his work at GM and Delphi and was elected as a Delphi Hall of Fame fellow. He also holds 12 patents outside of Delphi.
Dr. Botti graduated from I.N.S.A. Toulouse in 1986 with a master’s degree in mechanical engineering. He also earned an MBA from Central Michigan University in 1991, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris in 1995.
Dr. Botti was awarded the General Motors President Council Award in 1998 and is a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He is a member of various engineering and technology societies and the Centre National Recherche Technologique (CNRT) in Belfort, France. In 1991, he completed a Management of Research and Development course at the Massachussets Institutes of Technology (MIT). Dr. Botti has been elected to the European Research Board as the representative for Aeronautics and Space and he is Board member of ONERA (the French research institute for Aeronautics and Space). He is a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (UK). He also was awarded an Honorary Doctoral Degree from University of Bath in the UK.
