Frank Anderson Shrontz, the former chief executive officer and chairman of planemaker Boeing and part owner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team, has died, the Mariners said in a statement on Saturday.

Frank Shrontz, who spent a decade leading US aviation giant Boeing Co. through upswings and downturns amid fierce competition, has died. He was 92.

Frank Shrontz had an influential run as Boeing CEO from 1986 to 1996, growing the company’s commercial and defense businesses while aggressively pursuing the space industry.

They were finalists along with Frank Vogel last summer for the Suns head coaching job, which opened when Monty Williams was fired after Phoenix lost to the eventual NBA champion Denver Nuggets in six games of the 2023 Western Conference semifinals.

Frank Vogel won 49 games in his first season in Phoenix, but the Minnesota Timberwolves swept the Suns in the first round of the playoffs.