Other positions Shanahan served in at Boeing include senior vice president of airplane programs at Boeing Commercial Airplanes where he oversaw the management of profit and loss for the 737, 747, 767, 777 and 787 programs.

He also served as vice president and general manager of Boeing Missile Defense Systems and vice president and general manager for Rotorcraft Systems in Philadelphia, where he was responsible for all US Army Aviation, including the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, the CH-47 Chinook and the AH-64D Apache attack helicopter, the White House said.

Shanahan graduated from the University of Washington and earned a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management, it said. (Yonhap)