Biography | Kelly Ortberg — Born in the River Town Under This Bluff
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Biography | Kelly Ortberg — Born in the River Town Under This Bluff
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People treat a Boeing chief as a product of Seattle or Arlington.
Robert Kelly Ortberg was born in April 1960 in Dubuque, Iowa, on the Mississippi bluff that still looks into Illinois and Wisconsin.
His parents were Carol M. Koelker and Robert L. Ortberg.
The exact house is not a public pin. The public door into the town is this funicular, the Fenelon Place Elevator, which has carried people up 189 feet of bluff since 1893.
A later Fortune profile said his father worked at a tractor maker and that he grew up as one of four children in a household that felt, to him, like the television show The Wonder Years.
That Midwestern industrial town is the first fact that later interviews keep repeating: he was not raised next to an assembly line in Renton.
He left Dubuque for Iowa City and a mechanical-engineering degree. The river town stayed the origin line in every later company biography.
Photo: Teemu008, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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