Boeing India Engineering & Technology Center names Stacie Sire as VP, MD
Boeing has appointed
Stacie Sire
as vice president and managing director of
Boeing India
Engineering & Technology Center (BIETC) and chief engineer of Boeing India.
Sire succeeds Ahmed Elsherbini, who led this position from April 2021 to January 2025, according to a company statement.
Based in Bengaluru, Sire has taken over strategy and operations for BIETC, where she will be responsible for advancing BIETC's goals and priorities in India, and enhancing team capabilities to continue to support business growth, the statement said. She also serves as chief engineer for Boeing India.
'Stacie's expertise in leading teams and driving innovation for complex engineering programmes, combined with her deep technical knowledge and collaborative mindset, will be key as we work towards building a fully integrated global engineering organisation for The Boeing Company,' the statement said.
Sire began her career at Boeing as a structural engineer and later became a first-level manager in loads and dynamics supporting 787 and product development. As a senior manager, she led systems stress and airplane-level integration teams supporting all 787 models.
She subsequently held director and chief engineer positions for 767/777 airframe, 787 airframe, propulsion structures/systems/production engineering and airplane-level engineering integration.
As a senior director, she led structures engineering for Boeing commercial airplanes and, most recently, served as senior director of engineering for fabrication, leading a global team supporting 20 different manufacturing business units, according to the statement.
'Boeing's growth in
India
as an industry leader and innovator in aerospace and defence is inspiring, and I am committed to working alongside our team here to continue advancing that journey,' Sire said.
Meanwhile, Elsherbini has taken over a new role as senior vice president, general manager and head of
Boeing Global Engineering
.
Boeing in India has strengthened its supply chain with more than 300 local companies and a joint venture to manufacture fuselages for Apache helicopters and vertical fin structures for the 737 family of airplanes.
Annual sourcing from India stands at over $1.25 billion. Boeing currently employs close to 7,000 people in India and more than 13,000 people work with its supply chain partners, according to the statement.
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