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Leidos Names Rolls-Royce’s Bell As Next CEO; Krone To Retire

Leidos Names Rolls-Royce’s Bell As Next CEO; Krone To Retire
Tom Bell, incoming CEO of Leidos. Photo: Leidos

Leidos [LDOS] on Monday said long-time Chairman and CEO Roger Krone will retire this spring and be succeeded as CEO by Thomas Bell, who is currently president of Defense for Britain’s Rolls-Royce plc and chairman and CEO of Rolls-Royce North America, Inc. Bell, 62, will become CEO of Leidos on May 3. Bell was appointed president-Defense at Rolls-Royce in February 2018 and before that was senior vice president of global sales and marketing at Boeing’s [BA] Defense, Space & Security…

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