Twelve-year veteran of the aerospace and defense industry, Dean M. Flatt has been elected to serve on Board of Directors, as a member of the audit committee and the committee on directors and governance for Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
Flatt joins Curtiss-Wright following retirement as President and Chief Operating Officer of Honeywell’s Defense and Space Business. Prior to that he acted as President of the Aerospace Electronics Systems Business, President of the Specialty Materials and Chemicals Business and Vice President and General Manager of its Defense and Space Electronics Business at Honeywell. Flatt has also held numerous management positions for companies including GE, Hill-Phoenix Refrigeration and AlliedSignal.
Flatt is also a member of the Operating Executive Board of private equity firm that focuses on acquiring companies and technologies in the aerospace, defense and maritime industries, JF Lehman & Company. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Ducommun, Inc. and Industrial Container Services, LLC. Flatt is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a B.S. in Mathematics and earned an M.B.A. from Stanford University.