Board of Governors 2025 - 2026
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.
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
Brett Catlin
Vice President, Loyalty,
Alliances and Sales
Alaska Airlines
Candice Cook
Tartan Commodore Consulting
Rick Deurloo
President, Commercial Engines
Pratt & Whitney
Sharon DeVivo
President
Vaughn College of
Aeronautics & Technology
Cora Elquist
Director, Customer Relations
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Tom Gentile
Chairman, CEO & President
Hexcel Corporation
Joanna Geraghty
Chief Executive Officer
JetBlue Airways
Matthew Greene
President
Safe Flight Instrument Corporation
Ankit Gupta
Senior Vice President,
Chief Air Operations Officer
United Airlines
Greg Hamilton
President
Aviation Week Network
Steven Udvar-Hazy
Former Senior Vice President &
Chief of Aircraft Operations
Aviation Capital Group
Chris Jones
Head of Americas,
President & Marketing 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
Valerie Manning
Former Chief Commercial Officer
Overair
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
David G. Thompson
Vice President, Engineering, Quality, Planning & Support
Delta Air Lines
Jason Tonich
Vice President & General Manager,
Global Sales & Marketing
GE Aerospace
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
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