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Board of Directors

  • Barents

    Brian E. Barents

    Class 3 Director, Term expires 2014 Annual Meeting

    Mr. Barents, 69, has been a director since 1996. He is the retired President and Chief Executive Officer of Galaxy Aerospace Corp. Prior to that, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Learjet, Inc. He is also a director of CAE, Inc.

  • Callaway III

    E. Reeves Callaway III

    Class 1 Director, Term expires 2015 Annual Meeting

    Mr. Callaway, 65, has been a director since 1995. He is the Founder and President and Chief Executive Officer of The Callaway Companies, an engineering services firm which is involved in the high technology composites industry and has presence in Europe and the U.S.

  • Garrison

    Karen M. Garrison

    Class 1 Director, Term expires 2015 Annual Meeting

    Ms. Garrison, 64, has been a director since 2006. She retired as President of Pitney Bowes Business Services, a major manufacturer of postal equipment/ software and service provider, in 2004. She is a director of Standard Parking Corporation and Tenet Healthcare.

  • Higgins

    A. William Higgins

    Class 1 Director, Term expires 2015 Annual Meeting

    Mr. Higgins, 54, has been a director since 2009. He is the former Chairman, CEO and President of CIRCOR International, Inc., a global diversified manufacturing company that designs, manufactures, and supplies valves, related products and services to OEMs, processors, manufacturers, the military, and utilities that rely on fluid-control to accomplish their missions. Prior to March 2008, he held the offices of President and Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of CIRCOR. Prior to joining CIRCOR in 2005, Mr. Higgins spent thirteen years in a variety of senior management positions with Honeywell International and Allied Signal.

  • Keating

    Neal J. Keating

    Class 2 Director, Term expires 2013 Annual Meeting

    Mr. Keating, 57, was elected President and Chief Operating Officer as well as a Director of the company in September 2007. In January 2008, he became President and Chief Executive Officer and in March 2008 he was appointed to the additional position of Chairman. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Keating served as Chief Operating Officer at Hughes Supply, a $5.4 billion wholesale distributor that was acquired by Home Depot in 2006. Prior to that, he held senior positions at GKN Aerospace, an aerospace subsidiary of GKN, plc, and Rockwell Collins, Commercial Systems, and was a board member for GKN, plc Augusta-Westland. He is a director of Hubbell Incorporated.

  • Kraus

    Eileen S. Kraus

    Class 2 Director, Term expires 2013 Annual Meeting

    Ms. Kraus, 74, has been a Director since 1995 and currently serves as the board’s Lead Independent Director. She is the retired Chairman of Fleet Bank Connecticut and is a director of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. and Rogers Corporation.

  • Scott E. Kuechle

    Scott E. Kuechle

    Class 2 Director, Term expires 2013 Annual Meeting

    Mr. Kuechle, 53, has been a Director since his election to the Board on February 19, 2013. He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Goodrich Corporation, one of the largest worldwide suppliers of aerospace components, systems and services to the commercial and general aviation airplane market, from August 2005 until his retirement in July 2012.  Prior to serving as Chief Financial Officer, he also served as Vice President and Controller from 2004-2005 and Vice President and Treasurer from 1998-2004 and in various other financial leadership roles during his 29-year tenure with Goodrich.  He also serves as a Director of Esterline Corporation, a leading specialty manufacturer serving the global aerospace and defense markets, Wesco Aircraft Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of comprehensive supply chain management services to the global aerospace industry, and Crisis Assistance Ministries, a non-profit organization in Charlotte, North Carolina, that provides assistance and advocacy for people in financial crisis. 

  • Minnich

    George E. Minnich

    Class 3 Director, Term expires 2014 Annual Meeting

    Mr. Minnich, 63, has been a director since 2009. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ITT Corporation, then a $9 billion commercial and defense business, from 2005 until his retirement in 2007. Prior to that, he served for twelve years in several senior finance positions at United Technologies Corporation, including Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Otis Elevator Company and of Carrier Corporation. As a Certified Public Accountant, he also held various increasingly senior positions with Pricewaterhouse Coopers (then Price Waterhouse) from 1971 to 1993, culminating in Audit Partner from 1984 to 1993. He is a director of AGCO Corporation and Belden Corporation.

  • Rabaut

    Thomas W. Rabaut

    Class 3 Director, Term expires 2014 Annual Meeting

    Mr. Rabaut, 65, has been a director since 2008. Mr. Rabaut has served as a Senior Advisor to The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm, since January 2007. From June 2005 to January 2007, he was President of the Land & Armaments Operating Group of BAE Systems, a global leader in the design, development and production of military systems. From January 1994 to June 2005, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of United Defense Industries, Inc., which was acquired by BAE Systems in 2005. He is a director of Cytec Industries, Inc., a premier supplier of advanced composite products.

  • Swift

    Richard J. Swift

    Class 2 Director, Term expires 2013 Annual Meeting

    Mr. Swift, 68, has been a Director since 2002. He is former Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council and retired Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Foster Wheeler Ltd., a provider of design, engineering, construction, and other services. He is a director of Ingersoll-Rand Company, Ltd., Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated, Hubbell Incorporated and CVS Caremark Corporation.

You may communicate with any member of the Board of Directors, a Board Committee, or the Lead Director either by mail:

Kaman Corporation
c/o Corporate Secretary
1332 Blue Hills Avenue
Bloomfield, CT 06002

or via email.

The Corporate Secretary will compile all such communications and forward each item to the individual to whom it is directed or, if the communication is not directed to any particular Board member, to the entire Board. It is expected that such correspondence will relate to the duties and responsibilities of the Board and its Committees rather than other matters such as mass mailings, product or employment inquiries, solicitations, or advertisements.