Officers
Board of Governors
Committee Chairs
Past Presidents

Board of Governors 2026 - 2027

Ali Ben Lmadani
President & CEO
ABL Aviation
Marion Blakey
(Retired) President & CEO
Rolls-Royce North America
Colin Bole
Head of Commercial, North America
Airbus Americas, Inc.
Hadley Bowling
Hadley Bowling
CFM56 General Manager
GE Aerospace
Jude Bricker
Chief Executive Officer
Sun Country Holdings Airlines
Kevin Burkhart
Vice President, Fleet Development & Supplemental Air Operations
FedEx Express
Barry Butler
President
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Christina Cassotis
Chief Executive Officer
Allegheny County Airport Authority
Brett Catlin
Vice President, Loyalty, Alliances and Sales
Alaska Airlines
Janene Collins
Janene Collins
Vice President and Asst. General Manager, Supply Chain & Functional Excellence
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Candice Cook
Tartan Commodore Consulting
Rick Deurloo
President, Commercial Engines
Pratt & Whitney
Sharon DeVivo
President
Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology
Tom Gentile
Chairman, CEO & President
Hexcel Corporation
Matthew Greene
President
Safe Flight Instrument Corporation
Ankit Gupta
Senior Vice President, Chief Air Operations Officer
United Airlines
Greg Hamilton
Greg Hamilton
President
Aviation Week Network
Steven Udvar-Hazy
Head of Fleet Strategy & Planning
Alaska Airlines
Chris Jones
Head of Americas, President & Managing Director
ATR, Inc.
Sheila Kahyaoglu
Managing Director
Jefferies Group
Todd Kallman
President
TK Advisory Services, LLC
Robert Korn
Co-Founding Principal
Carlyle Aviation Partners
Gary Krauthamer
President
Krauthamer & Associates
Huntley Lawrence
HAL Strategy Group
Dr. Valerie Manning
President
VMG Aero
Jeff Martin
Executive Chairman
Launch Technical Services
Arjan Meijer
President & CEO
Embraer Commercial Aviation
James Meyler
Chief Executive Officer
ORIX Aviation Group
Ihssane Mounir
Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Landon Nitschke
Senior Vice President, Technical Operations
Southwest Airlines
Bruce Nobles
President & Chief Executive Officer
The Renwick Company
John G. Rosanvallon
Sr. Special Advisor to the Chairman/CEO
Dassault Aviation
Howard Rubel
Vice President, Investor Relations (Ret.)
General Dynamics
David Seymour
Chief Operating Officer
American Airlines
Marty St. George
President
JetBlue Airways
David Thompson
Senior Vice President Technical Operations
Delta Air Lines
Mark Yerger
Principal
MDY Services, LLC

President Emeritus

Robert J. Aaronson
Board Member
Connecticut Airport Authority

David Barger
(Retired) CEO
JetBlue Airways

David Davenport
Executive Vice President
Solairus Aviation

Scott C. Donnelly
Chairman & CEO
Textron Inc.

Barry Eccleston
(Retired) President & CEO
Airbus Americas, Inc.

John Feren
Partner
SplitRock Aviation

Kenneth E. Gazzola
EVP Publisher (Ret.)
Aviation Week Network

Tom Gentile
Chairman, CEO & President
Hexcel Corporation

Dawne S. Hickton
Chair & CEO
Cumberland Additive, Inc.

Mary Ellen S. Jones
(Retired) Vice President, Asia-Pacific Sales
Pratt & Whitney

C. Jeffrey Knittel
Chairman & CEO
Airbus Americas, Inc.

Christopher Kubasik
Vice Chair & CEO
L3Harris Technologies

Kevin G. McAllister
Senior Operating Partner
AE Industrial Partners

Allan McArtor
Chairman
Airbus Americas, Inc.

Abdol Moabery
President & CEO
GA Telesis

Mahendra R. Nair
Group Vice President, GE Programs
GE Aerospace

John Plueger
CEO & President
Air Lease Corporation

Franklin Pray
Managing Director
Alinda Capital Partners

John S. Slattery
Executive Vice President & CCO
GE Aerospace

Frederick W. Smith
Chairman & CEO
FEDEX Corporation