Barbara Borgonovi
President, Naval Power
Barbara Borgonovi is president of Naval Power at Raytheon, a business of RTX that specializes in integrated air and missile defense, advanced sensors, space-based systems, hypersonics, and effectors. Raytheon’s Naval Power strategic business unit provides the U.S. and its global allies in the maritime domain with sensors, space systems and precision weapon solutions to protect allied ships and sailors around the world.
Prior to this role, Borgonovi led Corporate Strategy & Development for RTX. In this role she was responsible for the company’s strategic initiatives and for assessing merger, acquisition and divestiture opportunities to drive overall enterprise growth and profitability.
Borgonovi joined the company in 2001and has held positions in program management, supply chain, operations management and quality engineering. She was president of Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Systems for Raytheon Intelligence & Space. Prior to that role, she was vice president of Integrated Communication Systems in the company’s Space and Airborne Systems unit, where she previously served as vice president of Operations and as director of Program Operations for the Electronic Warfare Systems mission area.
Borgonovi is an active supporter of diversity, equity and inclusion and supports multiple Employee Resource Groups at RTX.
She earned an MBA from Pepperdine University and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.