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0 Board of Directors Aer Lingus Group Plc – Annual Report 2009
Board of Directors
Colm Barrington (Chairman) (7) (8) (9)
Colm Barrington was appointed to the Board on
19 September 2008 and appointed as Chairman
on 3 October 2008. He is Chief Executive Officer and
a director of Babcock and Brown Air Limited, the
NYSE listed, Irish based, aircraft leasing company.
He was formerly Managing Director of Babcock and
Brown in Dublin from 1994 to 2007. Prior to that he
held a number of senior executive management
positions in GPA Group Plc from 1979 to 1993 and
was appointed President of GE Capital Aviation
Services Limited following its acquisition of GPA
Group Plc. He has represented Ireland in international
yacht racing and in 2007, he completed the Barrington
Report on the Irish Private Health Insurance Industry
for the Minister for Health and Children.
Christoph Mueller
(Chief Executive Officer)
Christoph Mueller was appointed Chief Executive
Officer and a member of the Board in September 2009.
Prior to his appointment he was most recently the
Aviation Director at TUI Travel plc, a leading international
leisure travel group operating a pan-European airline
with over 160 aircraft. He has extensive experience
within the aviation industry, having held senior positions
in Daimler Benz Aerospace, Lufthansa AG, the Sabena
Group, DHL and Deutsche Post AG, prior to his roles at
TUI Travel plc. He served as the Chief Financial Officer
of DHL Worldwide from 2002 to 2004 and became a
member of the Executive Committee of Deutsche Post
AG in 2004. In January 2006, Mr Mueller joined the
Executive Committee of TUI AG with responsibility for
their flight division. In 2007, TUI AG merged its travel
division with First Choice Holidays PLC to form TUI
Travel plc, a leading international travel group listed on
the London Stock Exchange and a member of the FTSE
100. Mr Mueller served as Executive Director, Aviation,
at TUI Travel plc, where he managed a total of seven
separate airlines, a fleet of 160 short-haul and long-haul
aircraft and a team of 11,000 employees.
David Begg (8) (10) (12)
David Begg was appointed to the Board on 29 January
2008. Mr Begg became General Secretary of the Irish
Congress of Trade Unions in 2001. For five years prior
to that he was Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide,
an international humanitarian organisation working in
27 countries and with offices in Dublin, London, Belfast,
New York and Chicago. He is also a Director of the
Central Bank (since 1995), a Governor of the Irish
Times Trust, member of the ESRI Council, a member
of the National Economic and Social Council (NESC),
and of the Advisory Board of Development Co-
operation Ireland. He also sits on the Executive
Committee of the European Trade Union
Confederation (ETUC).
Montie Brewer
Montie Brewer was appointed to the Board
on 25 January 2010. He is an airline veteran and
a recognised industry innovator in airline pricing,
sales and distribution strategies. Most recently he
was President and CEO of Air Canada. He is currently
a Non-executive Director of Allegiant Travel Company,
recognised as one of North America’s most innovative
airline and travel groups. He holds a BA in Business
Administration & Transportation Management from
Michigan State University.
Leslie Buckley (11)
Leslie Buckley was appointed to the Board on
18 May 2009. He is a founding director of Digicel
a telecommunications group with over nine million
subscribers and operations across the Caribbean,
Central America and South Pacific. Previously,
Mr Buckley was involved in the start-up of Esat
Telecom group plc and Esat Digifone Limited and
held the position of acting Chief Operating Officer
of Esat Telecom during 1996 and 1997. Mr Buckley
established his own consultancy business in 1990
and was retained on a number of key public and
private sector appointments. He is currently the
Chairman of Saongroup.com and Business Recovery
Services Limited. He is also a director of the Irish
Medical Organisation Services Limited. In January 2009
Mr Buckley established Haven, a charitable foundation
dedicated to building and up-grading houses for the
poorest of the poor, initially in Haiti, through long-term
partnership programmes with communities and an
annual Volunteer based “Build-It-Week”. In March 2009
Mr Buckley was appointed to the Board of Independent
News & Media PLC.
Thomas Corcoran (7) (10)
Thomas Corcoran was appointed to the Board on
4 May 2007. Mr Corcoran has extensive and in-depth
experience in the aviation industry worldwide. He is
currently a Senior Advisor to The Carlyle Group and
President of Corcoran Enterprises LLC, a management
consultancy firm. He has held senior executive
management positions at General Electric and
Lockheed Martin. Mr Corcoran is a member on
the Boards of Directors of ARINC Incorporated
(A Carlyle Company), L-3 Communications Corporation,
REMEC Incorporated, LaBarge Incorporated and Serco
Plc. He is also a Director of Aircraft Management
Technologies, a privately held Irish company.
He is active in the American Ireland Fund where
he is a Director. He is a graduate of Stevens Institute
of Technology where he is a Trustee and holds an
honorary PhD.
Laurence Crowley (4) (6)
Laurence Crowley was appointed to the Board
on 9 January 2009 and is the Senior Independent
Director on the Board. He is Chairman of ‘Gaisce –
The President’s Award’, the Gate Theatre, The
Middletown Centre for Autism, Ecocem Limited and
Realex Payments. He is also a member of the Board
of the Economic and Social Research Institute, An Bord
Gáis, the Advisory Board of the US-Ireland Alliance and
a number of other companies. He previously served as
Governor of the Bank of Ireland (where he completed
Left to right: Colm Barrington, Christoph Mueller, David Begg, Montie Brewer, Leslie Buckley, Thomas Corcoran, Laurence Crowley.