Rex Geveden
President
Teledyne Brown Engineering

Rex Geveden, president of Teledyne Brown Engineering, leads the systems engineering segment of Teledyne Technologies. This diverse portfolio, which includes wholly-owned subsidiaries Teledyne Solutions and Teledyne CollaborX, features a wide range of capabilities and products, including engineering services, engineered products, operations, and precision machining and manufacturing. He assumed the position on August 1, 2007.

Geveden is responsible for the near-term growth and profitability and long range strategic positioning of the business segment. With some 2500 employees located in 20 states, the annual revenues presently exceed $300 million.

Previously, Geveden was Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) where he was responsible for all technical operations of the agency. He worked with the Administrator to develop strategy and policy and had direct oversight of all NASA’s programs and field centers. Geveden previously held the position of NASA Chief Engineer.

Prior to that, he served as Deputy Director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, where he was jointly responsible for managing one of NASA’s largest field installations, with more than 6,500 civil service and contract employees and an annual budget of $2.3 billion.

As Program Manager for Gravity Probe B (GP-B), Geveden led a government, industry and university team in developing a sophisticated payload designed to test two features of Einstein’s general relativity theory. GP-B launched in April 2004.

Geveden has a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics and a master’s degree in physics from Murray State University in Kentucky, and is also a graduate of the Program Management Course at the Defense Systems Management College.

He has received many awards including the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award, NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, and Silver Snoopy Award. He was also honored by his home state as an Outstanding Alumnus of Kentucky and granted the honorary title of Kentucky Colonel.

Geveden is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and won the Holger Toftoy award for outstanding technical leadership in 2004.

Geveden and his wife, Gail, make their home in Huntsville, Alabama.