Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air 2013 Annual Report Download - page 20

PROPOSALS TO BE VOTED ON
Festival Golden Lion Award for business
marketing. Prior to his media career,
Mr. Knight spent ten years in finance and
marketing with the Dole Foods Company in
its banana and pineapple businesses.
Mr. Knight serves on the boards of Alaska
Airlines and Horizon Air (subsidiaries of
Alaska Air Group), the Timken Museum of
Art in San Diego, the Southern California
Leadership Council, and the University of
California San Diego Foundation. He is a life
member of the Council on Foreign Relations
and a corporate member of the Hoover
Institution at Stanford University. He
previously served ten years on the board of
the San Diego Padres Baseball Club.
Mr. Knight’s expertise in brand marketing,
energy markets and economic development,
as well as his broad business experience
uniquely qualify him for service on the
Alaska Air Group Board.
Dennis F. Madsen
Director since 2003
Age – 65
Mr. Madsen serves on the
Board’s Compensation and
Leadership Development
Committee and its Audit
Committee. From 2000 to
2005, Mr. Madsen was
president and CEO of
Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), a retailer
and online merchant for outdoor gear and
clothing. He served as REI’s executive vice
president and COO from 1987 to 2000, and
prior to that held numerous other positions
at REI. In 2010, Mr. Madsen was appointed
a director of West Marine Inc., a publicly
traded retail company in the recreational
boating sector. He also chairs West
Marine’s compensation and leadership
development committee and serves on its
nominations and governance committee.
Other boards on which Mr. Madsen serves
include Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air
(subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group), the
Western Washington University Foundation,
Western Washington University, Islandwood,
and the Youth Outdoors Legacy Fund.
Because of his varied business background
and his experience in leading a large people-
oriented and customer-service-driven
organization, Mr. Madsen is highly qualified
to serve on the Alaska Air Group Board and
its Compensation and Leadership
Development Committee.
Byron I. Mallott
Director since 1982
Age – 70
Mr. Mallott serves on the
Board’s Safety and its
Governance and
Nominating Committees.
Currently he is a senior
fellow of the First Alaskans
Institute, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to the development
of Alaska Native peoples and their
communities, a position he has held since
2000. Mr. Mallott is currenly a candidate for
governor of the state of Alaska. Prior to
nominating him to serve another term, the
Board reviewed Mr. Mallott’s ability to
devote needed attention to his Board
activities and was satisfied that the
campaign would not detract from his ability
to serve on the Board. The election will be
decided in November 2014. Mr. Mallott
served on the Board of Trustees of the
Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum
of the American Indian for two three-year
terms ending in 2013. He has served the
state of Alaska in various advisory and
executive capacities, including as mayor of
Yakutat and of Juneau. From 1995 to 1999,
he was executive director (chief executive
officer) of the Alaska Permanent Fund
Corporation, a trust managing proceeds from
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