08/27/2025
Congratulations to Central & Western Kansas board member, Ricky Boyer, who has been named a winner for the NextGen Under30 for Kansas! Richard “Ricky” Boyer is a well-renowned leader, board member, award-winning data analyst, and a recognized adjunct professor, who currently heads the Parts and Distribution Analytics division as a manager at Textron Aviation, which is the general aviation business unit of the Fortune 200 Textron conglomerate.
He serves as the Past Chair on the MBA Advisory Board at Oklahoma State University; a panelist on the Opportunity on the Plains investment program; and a founding president and board member who values the ingenuity of the new millennial and Gen Z workforce while appreciating the experience and wisdom of current leaders. He believes that approachable and authentic leaders can refresh organizations, drive synergies across generations, to spur economic and financial growth.
In his current role at Textron Aviation, Ricky has pioneered enterprise data strategies, mentored new hires, and interns, envisioned data science projects into production, and led a sole team of analysts and scientists to process 1+ billion lines of data per day, delivering to hundreds of internal customers, in support of $1 billion annual revenues. He also has joined the Masters' of Data Analytics program at Newman to teach Applied Machine learning.
He hopes to bring a process and data mindset to the Alzheimer's Association board while finding innovative and creative ways to bring a younger audience into the space.
