Boeing appoints Brian Besanceney as Chief Communications Officer

The Boeing Company announced the appointment of Brian Besanceney as senior vice president and chief communications officer, beginning September 6, 2022. Besanceney, a corporate affairs leader with more than 25 years of strategic communications and government relations experience, including senior roles at Walmart and Disney, will oversee all aspects of Boeing's communications, including media relations, external affairs, employee engagement, and company branding.

Besanceney will report to Boeing President and CEO David Calhoun and will sit on the Executive Council.

"Brian is an outstanding communications executive with a proven record of leading global teams and helping several of the world's well-known companies and organizations tell their stories, in addition to managing complex issues in the private sector and at the highest levels of government," Calhoun said. "I am confident Brian will help us build on our ongoing commitment to engaging our employees and stakeholders transparently as we continue to navigate a challenging global environment and work to position Boeing for the long term."

Besanceney most recently served as Walmart's senior vice president and chief communications officer, where he was highly regarded for his strategic communications counsel and effective leadership of the company's comprehensive global communications, which included media, social and digital, stakeholder engagement, and events for the world's largest company.

Prior to joining Walmart, Besanceney was senior vice president of public affairs at Walt Disney World, where he was in charge of external and internal communications, corporate citizenship, as well as global government and industry relations for Disney's Parks & Resorts business.

Prior to joining Disney, Besanceney held critical positions in the US government, including deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the US State Department and assistant secretary for Public Affairs at the US Homeland Security Department. Besanceney worked in the White House under President George W. Bush in the early 2000s, including two years as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy White House Communications Director for Planning. He formerly worked as a public relations and government relations consultant and as the communications director for then-Rep. Rob Portman.

Besanceney is a member of the boards of Orlando Health, a not-for-profit hospital system in the southern United States with $8 billion in assets under administration, and the Institute for Public Relations. He formerly served on the boards of the Trust for the National Mall and The Nature Conservancy's Florida Chapter.

Besanceney takes over for Ed Dandridge, who left Boeing in June. He will work out of the company's worldwide headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

Boeing, a worldwide aerospace leader, designs, manufactures, and maintains commercial aircraft, defence goods, and space systems for clients in over 150 countries. As a leading US exporter, the firm taps into the capabilities of a worldwide supplier base to enhance economic opportunity, sustainability, and community impact. Boeing's diverse workforce is dedicated to inventing for the future, leading with sustainability, and developing a culture founded on the company's fundamental values of safety, quality, and integrity.