Tiffany Nesbit

VP, Engineering at Elbit Systems of America

Tiffany Nesbit has been in the Aerospace Industry more than 25 years in a variety of Research & Development leadership roles. She has worked in all phases of development across Space, Military and Commercial Aerospace programs in a range of technical areas including Systems, Software, Hardware, and Test Engineering.

As Vice President of Engineering at Elbit Systems of America, Ms. Nesbit leads a diverse team across multiple sites and product lines in support of a rapidly growing business. Prior to joining Elbit Systems of America, she worked at Honeywell Aerospace where she held multiple engineering leadership roles with increasing span of control and responsibility. For four years she worked for Honeywell China in Shanghai, serving as Director of Engineering. In this role, she interfaced with COMAC on the development of the C919 airplane. She helped translate customer needs into a system architecture and provided connectivity between the team in China and North American product development.

Before moving to Shanghai, Ms. Nesbit led the Aerospace Software Center of Excellence, an organization of over 250 engineers across eight U.S. states and three countries. During her tenure, the organization consolidated use of operating systems and processes to streamline software development and foster closer collaboration across borders.

Ms. Nesbit enjoys mentoring and developing people and building diverse teams to solve complex problems. In addition to organizational leadership, she is a Certified Project Management Professional and has led large cross-functional development teams to execute complex new technology products.

Ms. Nesbit holds a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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  • VP, Engineering

    July, 2016 - present

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