Greenpoint Technologies gets new CEO

BOTHELL — Greenpoint Technologies has named Klaus Koester as the company’s new chief executive officer.

Koester succeeds former CEO Scott Goodey as head of the Bothell-based company, which has a facility at the Port of Moses Lake that creates customized luxury passenger jets for heads of state, governments and heads of major companies. Goodey retired after 20 years with Greenpoint, the company said.

According to a Greenpoint Technologies press release, Koester comes to Greenpoint from the Custom Cabins division of Safran Passenger Solutions, one of the many aerospace companies owned by the Paris-based Safran Group, which also owns Greenpoint.

Koester, a graduate of the University of Hamburg, has 25 years of aviation industry experience across the world, the press release said, including with SGL Carbon, a Wiesbaden, Germany-based company which also has a production facility in Moses Lake.

Charles H. Featherstone can be reached at cfeatherstone@columbiabasinherald.com.