At The Boeing Company, Matthew Sunday is responsible for 100+ different computers' development and certification efforts across all of the company's airplanes and also reports to the CEO on a weekly basis. He embarked on his Boeing career 12 years ago as a lead engineer with five direct reports and is now director and chief engineer of avionics engineering, heading up a team of 600 engineers. In his role, he routinely challenges the status quo and pushes boundaries, and his ownership-based leadership style is driving change through facts and data and is guiding his company and the industry to continuously strive toward safer and more sustainable air travel.

He developed and certified the first touchscreen on any of Boeing's airplanes, a process that entailed all aspects of pilot interface, regulator engagements, and customer demonstrations. The project is estimated to reduce maintenance costs of $80K per day across the entire fleet while ushering in a generational leap in flight deck technologies and providing future growth potential to reduce weight and implement new features.

Sunday led Boeing's 5G interference efforts, mitigating a U.S. National Air Space shutdown (valued by the secretary of transportation to be $20B+) and retrofitted more than 4,000 planes with new radio altimeters in a historical six-month timeframe. His leadership on the $500M Avionics Development Project ushered in new functionality for decreased fuel burn and weight savings, ultimately reducing cancelled flights and conserving fuel. In addition, he steered the GPS Interference Implementation Plan, which will retrofit and impact more than 10,000 planes over the next five years.