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08 Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Non Executive Director
Stelios (41) founded easyJet in 1995. He was easyJet’s Non Executive
Chairman until 26 November 2002 and was reappointed to the Board
on 16 May 2005. A graduate of the London School of Economics and
City University Business School, Stelios founded his first business Stelmar
Tankers in 1992, a shipping company which listed on the New York
Stock Exchange in 2001 and was sold in 2005 to OSG shipping group.
Since 1999 he has set up 16 other “easy” branded ventures, which are
managed and capitalised separately from easyJet and an up-to-date list
of them can be found on www.easy.com. Stelios is currently mostly
focusing on the management of the easyGroup, the private investment
vehicle for his trust, called the Stelios Trust. The easyGroup owns the
easy brand and licenses it to the various easy branded ventures including
easyJet and is also a major shareholder in easyJet plc. He was knighted
in November 2006 for services to entrepreneurship.
09 Sir David Michels
Senior Independent Non Executive Director
David (61) was appointed to the Board on 6 March 2006. He is currently
Deputy Chairman of Marks and Spencer plc and is also Non Executive
Director of Capital and Strategic Hotels and Resorts Inc and Jumeirah
Hotels. David has held a number of senior management and plc board
positions in the leisure industry. He spent 15 years with Grand
Metropolitan mainly in sales and marketing, which culminated in a Board
position as Worldwide Marketing Director. In 1989, he became Deputy
Chairman of Hilton UK and Executive Vice President, Hilton International.
He joined Stakis in 1991 as Chief Executive and became Group Chief
Executive of the Hilton Group (formerly Ladbroke Group) in June 2000,
a position he held until 2006. He is the current President of the British
Hospitality Association and was knighted in June 2006 for services
to the hospitality industry.
Dawn Airey
Independent Non Executive Director
Dawn (48) joined easyJet in April 2004. She is currently Chair and
Chief Executive of Channel Five . Prior to this, she was Managing
Director of Global Content at ITV plc. Dawn has worked in television
for over 23 years and began her career at Central TV as a management
trainee. She joined BSkyB in January 2003 and was Managing Director
of Channels and Services at Sky until 2007. She was also Chief Executive
of Channel Five (2000–2002); Director of Programmes, Channel Five
(1996–2000); Controller of Arts and Entertainment at Channel 4
(1994–1996) and Controller of Network Children’s and Daytime
Programmes at ITV (1993–1994). She is Vice President of the Royal
Television Society, and a Trustee of the Media Trust. Dawn is a member
of the Board of the International Emmy Awards, a governor of the
Banff Television Festival, an Honorary Committee Member of the
Monte Carlo Television Festival and a Director of The British Library.
04 David Bennett
Independent Non Executive Director
David (46) was appointed to the Board on 1 October 2005. He is
currently an Executive Director of Abbey National plc. Prior to that
David was Group Chief Executive of Alliance & Leicester plc having
previously served as Group Finance Director. David held a number
of senior management positions at Cheltenham & Gloucester Building
Society and Lloyds TSB. He was also an Executive Director of the
National Bank of New Zealand Limited and is a member of the
Association of Corporate Treasurers.
05 Sven Boinet
Independent Non Executive Director
Sven (55) was appointed to the Board of easyJet in March 2008. He
is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Group Lucien Barrière, the
€1.2 billion turnover company created from the merger of the gaming
activities of Accor and Lucien Barrière. A graduate of Stanford University,
he previously held a number of senior management roles over a 15 year
period at the French hotels group, Accor. He was also a Non Executive
Director of Lastminute.com from 2003 until its sale to Sabre in 2005.
06 John Browett
Independent Non Executive Director
John Browett (44) joined easyJet in September 2007. He is currently
Chief Executive Officer of DSG International plc, a position he has held
since December 2007. Prior to joining DSG International, John was the
Operations Development Director of Tesco plc. He joined Tesco as
Group Strategy Director in 1998 and held a number of executive
director positions in the company including running Tesco.com from
2000 to 2004 where he was responsible for formulating and delivering
its strategy from launch to profitability. A graduate of Cambridge
University and Wharton Business School, John, was at the Boston
Consulting Group between 1993 and 1998.
07 Professor Rigas Doganis
Independent Non Executive Director
Rigas (69) was appointed to the Board on 1 December 2005. Rigas is
an aviation consultant and strategy adviser to airlines, airports, banks and
governments around the world. He is Chairman of the European Aviation
Club in Brussels and a Non Executive Director of GMR Hyderabad
International Airport, India. He is a former Chairman and CEO of
Olympic Airways and was formerly a Non Executive Director of South
African Airways. Rigas is also a visiting Professor at Cranfield University
and the author of books on aviation economics and management.
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