Executive Mosaic announced that Lynn Bamford, president, and CEO of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, has received a 2021 Wash100 Award. She has secured a Wash100 Award for her leadership and strategic vision to drive growth for the company heading into 2021.
This marks the first Wash100 Award for Bamford in her long career that spans more than three decades across the defense, aerospace, and commercial industries. Bamford joined Curtiss-Wright with its acquisition of Dy4, a leading provider of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) embedded computing solutions, in 2004.
Bamford climbed the corporate ladder in the company until Jan. 2020 when she was appointed as the president of its Defense and Power segments. She played a pivotal role in executive strategic growth initiatives, driving significant operating margin expansion and free cash flow generation, which was enhanced by integrating seven high-profile acquisitions.
In Dec. 2020, Curtiss-Wright announced that Bamford would succeed David Adams, who retired officially in Jan. 2021, as the company’s president and CEO. The succession plan revealed that Adams would remain the executive chairman of the board until May 2022 when Bamford would assume the dual role of chairperson and CEO.
