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Steve Roehrich

Steve Roehrich

Veteran U.S. Navy aviator, former Chief Business Improvement Officer at Fortune 50 company, and aerospace manufacturing CEO; now President & CEO of Ready Room LLC and 724 Group LLC.

May 28, 2026

17:44
Yeah.
17:45
Okay? In the military, you trust each other with your lives.
17:49
That's not necessarily true in private sector, of course, and I've had a lot of conversation about this with investment bankers, who all are important, of course, and have gone to good schools, and it's like, "Look, I know you think you've done leadership, but you've not done leadership in the way that I have, where I had men and women's lives at stake.
18:09
You may have had a profit motive at stake, but I had lives at stake." There's a difference there.
18:14
Visionary, you gotta be visionary.
18:16
You gotta have visionary thinking.
18:17
You gotta look beyond the current, if you're in private sector, the current quarter and look way ahead.

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38:44
[laughs]

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