Molly Silva

Molly Silva is the Investments Director, overseeing Capital, Research & Development, and New Business Investment of ~$1.8B annually for Raytheon. She has been married to her husband, Jonathan, since 2010, has two children, Taylor (9), and Landon (6), and enjoys hiking and real estate investing.

Silva joined Raytheon in 2005 as a member of the Raytheon Financial Leadership Development Program (FLDP) where she held various financial roles. Upon graduation in 2007, Silva held program control and Financial Planning & Analysis roles before becoming AEGIS Business Manager in 2011. Since then, she has held various P&L and functional finance roles responsible for up to $1B of annual revenue, negotiated contracts with the government worth up to $0.5B, supported a major Cost Accounting Standards change for operations, facilitated closure of an international manufacturing facility, and led teams as large as 50 employees.

Silva also leads Diversity Equity & Inclusion initiatives and gave a webcast RED Talk at the RTX Diversity Conference in 2023 in front of 300 people. In 2023, Silva accepted her current role.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, with concentrations in Economics and Psychology. She received a Master of Business Administration from Boston University with concentration in Leadership and Organizational Transformation.