President
Rex D. Geveden
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated
Segment President, Engineered Systems
President and CEO, Teledyne Scientific & Imaging
President, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc.
Rex Geveden is a veteran of the space, defense, and energy industries with broad-ranging experience in both the government and private sectors. Trained in physics, he began his career in systems analysis and engineering and progressed into project management, program management, operations, and executive management. Prior to joining Teledyne Technologies in 2007, Geveden held the position of Associate Administrator at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), where he functioned as the agency’s chief operating officer. In his present position at Teledyne, Geveden leads the ~$300M Engineered Systems Segment of the corporation and its 1,500 employees as well as Teledyne Scientific & Imaging in the Digital Imaging Segment with its 500 employees and revenues of $150M.
In his role as President of the Engineered Systems segment of Teledyne Technologies, Geveden has full responsibility for the near-term growth profitability and long-range strategic positioning of Teledyne Brown and five other strategically-related Teledyne companies. Serving the aerospace, defense, and energy markets, Engineered Systems develops and delivers an extraordinarily diverse set of products and services, including small turbine engines for cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, radioisotope thermal electric generators for deep space and terrestrial applications, commercial hydrogen generators, fuel cells, space propulsion systems, marine vehicles, hardware-in-the-loop test capabilities, engineering services, modeling and simulation, embedded software, and precision machining and manufacturing, among many others.
In 2011, Geveden became President and Chief Executive Officer of Teledyne Scientific & Imaging – a portfolio of five Teledyne companies specializing primarily in digital imaging products, including focal planes, dewar-cooler assemblies, readout electronics, opto-mechanical systems, high-resolution digital cameras, gimbals, and image processing software. This includes Teledyne’s research laboratories in Thousand Oaks, CA, which are engaged in fundamental government- and company-funded research in optics, advanced materials, electronic devices, and information sciences.
Previously, as NASA’s Associate Administrator, he was responsible for all technical operations of the agency and a budget of $16B. Geveden worked with the Administrator to develop strategy and policy and had direct oversight of NASA’s ten field centers and all missions and flight programs, including the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, planetary exploration, space science, and aeronautics. Geveden previously held the position of NASA Chief Engineer, where he was integral to the return-to-flight efforts following the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Prior to that, he served as Deputy Director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, where he was jointly responsible for managing one of NASA’s largest field installations, with more than 6,500 civil service and contract employees and an annual budget of $2.3B covering programs as diverse as the Space Shuttle propulsion system and Earth science payloads. In a previous capacity, as program manager for Gravity Probe B (GP-B), Geveden led a government, industry, and university team in developing a sophisticated scientific spacecraft to test two features of Einstein’s general relativity theory. GP-B launched successfully in April 2004.
He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and won the Holger Toftoy award for outstanding technical leadership in 2004. He is also a member of the American Nuclear Society.
Geveden holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from Murray State University and is a graduate in Program Management from the Defense Systems Management College. He also holds a certificate of financial management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
He has received numerous awards, including the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award, NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, and Silver Snoopy Award. He was also honored by his home state as an Outstanding Alumnus of Kentucky and granted the honorary title of Kentucky Colonel.