Biography:

Tia Benson Tolle serves as Senior Director of Technology, Materials, and Sustainability for Product Development in Boeing Commercial Airplanes. In this role she leads the team responsible for developing and executing materials and sustainability roadmaps and technologies for future production systems, products and services. Prior to this role, she led Materials and Fabrication team for Product Strategy & Future Airplane Development team, during which she led efforts for implementation of improved materials and manufacturing processes on the 777X, insertion of additive manufactured materials on the 787, and the piloting of carbon fiber composite recycling. Benson Tolle joined Boeing in 2012. She began her aerospace career at NASA and later through progressively more responsible leadership positions in the Air Force Research Laboratory.