---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000012927-23-000013"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BA"
cik: "0000012927"
company_name: "BOEING CO"
filed_at: "2023-03-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T01:45:04.126371+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Boeing appoints Michael J. Cleary as Senior VP and Controller, replacing retiring Carol J. Hibbard

## Summary
- Appointment effective April 1, 2023; Cleary previously VP of Accounting and Financial Reporting since 2007.
- Hibbard retiring after 25+ years with Boeing, served as SVP and Controller since April 2021.
- Cleary will receive compensation consistent with his seniority; no additional award for this appointment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000012927-23-000013
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BA
- cik: 0000012927
- company_name: BOEING CO
- filed_at: 2023-03-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000001292723000013/0000012927-23-000013-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000001292723000013/ba-20230314.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000012927-23-000013
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000012927-23-000013.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000012927-23-000013.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Carol J. Hibbard departed as Senior Vice President and Controller at BOEING CO.
  - Action: retiring
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Controller
  source text: Mr. Cleary will replace Carol J. Hibbard, who is retiring after serving more than 25 years with the Company, most recently as the Company’s Senior Vice President and Controller since April 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000001292723000013/0000012927-23-000013-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael J. Cleary was appointed as Senior Vice President and Controller at BOEING CO.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Controller
  source text: the Board of Directors of The Boeing Company (the “Company”) appointed Michael J. Cleary, 64, as the Company’s Senior Vice President and Controller effective April 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000001292723000013/0000012927-23-000013-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.