Anderson, Roy A.

Roy Arnold Anderson (1920-2003) was born on 15 December 1920 in Ripon, California. He was one of six children born to Carl Gustav Anderson and Esther Marie Johnson, Swedish immigrants. Anderson enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II and worked in the Naval Intelligence Division in San Francisco. A certified public accountant, Anderson earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1947 and Master of Business Administration in 1949 from Stanford University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was called back into service during the Korean War and served in the Naval Cost Inspection Service, assigned to Westinghouse Electric as a resident cost inspector, where he also worked following the war as an accounting manager.

Anderson joined Lockheed Missiles & Space Company (LSMC) in 1956 as a staff accountant and advanced to Assistant Director of Financial Operations and Director of Financial and Management Controls at LMSC's Space Systems Division. He left briefly between 1960 and 1961 to serve as the finance division manager at Ampex Instrumentation Products Company, but returned to the Lockheed-Georgia Company, of which he became Director of Finance in 1965. In 1967 Anderson was appointed the C-5 Deputy Program Manager. He was named Treasurer of Lockheed Corporation in 1968 and was elected Vice President and Controller in 1969, Senior Vice President-Finance in 1971, and Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer in 1975. He was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lockheed Corporation in September 1977, when political and financial scandals threatened the company's future. Lockheed's profits and reputation grew steadily during his tenure; he retired in December 1985 and continued to serve on the Board of Directors until 1990 and as a consultant to the corporation into the 1990s.

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