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Nan Mattai
Senior Vice President, Engineering & Technology
Nan Mattai is Senior Vice President of Rockwell Collins Engineering & Technology. Additionally, she is a corporate officer of Rockwell Collins. Ms. Mattai is responsible for Rockwell Collins’ Engineering & Technology organization, including the Advanced Technology Center. In this role she is responsible for guiding the future technology direction, technology investment decisions and the development of advanced technologies to meet the needs of various parts of the business. She was appointed to the position in November 2004.
Previously, Ms. Mattai served as Vice President, Government Systems Engineering, a position to which she was appointed in 2001. She joined the company in 1993 and has held positions of increasing responsibility, including Senior Director of Tactical Communications, Government Systems.
Ms. Mattai is a member of the Advisory Board, Aviation Week Strategic Media & Conferences; Vice President, Operations of the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, Inc. (GEM); a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); a member of Women in Engineering (WIE); and a member of the Iowa State University Institute for Physical Research and Technology (IPRT) Industrial Advisory Board. Nan graduated from the University of Windsor, Canada with a Master’s degree in Nuclear Physics and completed all graduate courses for a Doctorate in Physics.