Ball Corporation said Monday that David L. Taylor, president and chief executive officer of Ball Aerospace Technologies Corp. for more than a decade, is retiring at the end of March. <\/p>\n
Succeeding Taylor will be Robert D. Strain, who is currently chief operating officer of Ball Aerospace. <\/p>\n
Taylor has spent 29 years at the company. <\/p>\n
\"Dave Taylor led a transformation of our aerospace business into an agile, high-performing aerospace and defense enterprise, guiding its entry into new customer agencies and growing our aerospace sales and profits significantly since 2002,\" said John A. Hayes, president and chief executive officer of Ball Corp. <\/p>\n
Strain, 56, joined Ball Aerospace in March 2012 . <\/p>\n
He has served as director of NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center and has held leadership roles at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Orbital Sciences Corp. and Fairchild Space and Defense. <\/p>\n
Hayes said Strain's extensive experience in the private, public and academic sectors, and \"his strong record of managing programs and cultivating relationships, will be key to continuing our tremendous growth trajectory and helping us achieve our Drive for 10 vision .\" <\/p>\n
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