Senior Director – Vertical Capability
Boeing Global Services

Tom Sanderson is the Senior Director for Vertical Capability within Boeing Global Services’ Cabins, Modifications and Maintenance. In this role he leads the teams responsible for Boeing’s in-house and joint venture maintenance and modification commercial services, including: Boeing Converted Freighters; MRO facilities in Shanghai, Gatwick, and Victorville; and Aviation Partners Boeing. He assumed his current role in June 2024 after 7 years in various product marketing leadership roles in Boeing Commercial Airplanes, including the 777, 787, sustainability, and product development marketing teams.

Since joining Boeing in 2005, Tom has held several marketing, engineering, and operational leadership roles: manager of the Boeing Research & Technology Advanced Materials & Airplane Development team including leader for the enterprise modularity strategy, 737 MAX 8 flight test operations manager, 737 wing-body join operations manager, flight test director including the entire 787-8 flight test campaign, and service engineer for 737 propulsion and 707/727/737/757 fuel systems. Tom had a prior career as an engineer, manager, and senior manager in deepwater oilfield operations with Schlumberger.

Sanderson is actively involved in his community supporting Scout Troop 356. He represents Boeing recruiting for the Leaders for Global Operations program at MIT, engineering at Stanford, and is a Boeing representative on the Northwestern University Transportation Center’s Business Advisory Council. He is married with four children and resides in Puget Sound.

Sanderson holds Bachelor of Science in Engineering degrees from Princeton University in Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. He subsequently earned three master’s degrees: Aeronautical Engineering from Stanford University, and Systems Engineering and Business Administration from Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the Leaders for Global Operations program. He also has a certificate in Aircraft Structures from the University of Washington, and a certificate in Systems Architecture from MIT.