Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air 2012 Annual Report Download - page 26

PROPOSALS TO BE VOTED ON
PROPOSAL 1:
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS TO ONE-YEAR TERMS
The Company currently has eleven directors.
The Company’s Bylaws provide that directors
shall serve a one-year term. Directors are
elected to hold office until their successors
are elected and qualified, or until resignation
or removal in the manner provided in our
Bylaws. Eleven directors are nominees for
election this year and each has consented
to serve a one-year term ending in 2014.
William S. Ayer
Director since 1999
Age – 58
Mr. Ayer has served as
chairman of the Alaska Air
Group Board and Air
Group’s two subsidiaries,
Alaska Airlines and Horizon
Air, since May 2003. In May
2012, Mr. Ayer stepped
down from the position of president and CEO
of Alaska Air Group, a role he had filled since
2003, and from the position of CEO of Alaska
Airlines and Horizon Air. Prior to 2003,
Mr. Ayer held various marketing, planning and
operational positions at Alaska Airlines and
Horizon Air. He serves as chairman of the
board of Puget Energy, and since 2012 as a
Regent of the University of Washington. He
serves on the boards of the Museum of Flight,
the University of Washington Foundation, the
University of Washington Foster School of
Business Advisory Board, and the Angel Flight
West Foundation. Mr. Ayer also chairs the
NextGen Advisory Committee, working with the
Federal Aviation Administration and the
aviation industry to transform the nation’s
airspace and air traffic system. Mr. Ayer’s
strategic planning skills, broad airline and
business expertise, and his governance
experience qualify him for his position on the
Air Group Board.
Patricia M. Bedient
Director since 2004
Age – 59
Ms. Bedient chairs the
Board’s Audit Committee.
She is executive vice
president and CFO for
Weyerhaeuser Company,
one of the world’s largest
integrated forest products
companies. A certified public accountant
(CPA) since 1978, she served as managing
partner of Arthur Andersen LLP’s Seattle
office prior to joining Weyerhaeuser.
Ms. Bedient also worked at Andersen’s
Portland and Boise offices as a partner and
as a CPA during her 27-year career with the
firm. She serves on the boards of Alaska
Airlines and Horizon Air (subsidiaries of
Alaska Air Group), the Overlake Hospital
Medical Center Board and the University of
Washington Foster School of Business
advisory board. She has also served on the
boards of a variety of civic organizations,
including the Oregon State University
Foundation board of trustees, the World
Forestry Center, City Club of Portland,
St. Mary’s Academy of Portland, and the
Chamber of Commerce in Boise, Idaho. She
is a member of the American Institute of
CPAs and the Washington Society of CPAs.
Ms. Bedient received her bachelor’s degree
in business administration, with
concentrations in finance and accounting,
from Oregon State University in 1975.
Ms. Bedient’s extensive experience in public
accounting and financial expertise qualify
her to serve on the Board and to act as an
audit committee financial expert, as defined
by the SEC.
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