Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air 2012 Annual Report Download - page 28

PROPOSALS TO BE VOTED ON
Jessie J. Knight, Jr.
Director since 2002
Age – 62
Mr. Knight serves on the
Board’s Safety Committee
and its Governance and
Nominating Committee.
Mr. Knight is chairman and
CEO of San Diego Gas and
Electric Company, a
subsidiary of Sempra Energy. From 2006 to
2010, he was executive vice president of
external affairs at Sempra Energy. From
1999 to 2006, Mr. Knight served as
president and CEO of the San Diego
Regional Chamber of Commerce, and from
1993 to 1998, he was a commissioner of
the California Public Utilities Commission.
Prior to this, Mr. Knight was vice president
of marketing and strategic planning for the
San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco
Examiner. While there, he won five National
Clio Awards for television, radio and printed
advertising and a Cannes Film 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. Mr. Knight serves on
the boards of Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air
(subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group), the San
Diego Padres Baseball Club, and the Timken
Museum of Art in San Diego. He is a life
member of the Council on Foreign Relations
and a corporate member of the Hoover
Institution at Stanford University.
Mr. Knight’s knowledge and expertise on
brand marketing and energy markets as well
as his broad business experience qualify
him for service on the Alaska Air Group
Board.
R. Marc Langland
Director since 1991
Age – 71
Mr. Langland is a member
of the Board’s Governance
and Nominating and its
Compensation and
Leadership Development
Committees. He has been
chairman of Northrim Bank
(Anchorage, Alaska) since 1998, served as
director since 1990, and served as the
bank’s president from 1990 until 2009.
Mr. Langland has also served as chair,
president and CEO of the bank’s parent
company, Northrim BanCorp, Inc. since
1998. He was chair and CEO of Key Bank of
Alaska from 1987 to 1988 and president
from 1985 to 1987. From 1978 to 1985,
Mr. Langland was president of First National
Bank of Fairbanks. In 2001, Mr. Langland
was inducted into the Alaska Business Hall
of Fame. He served on the board of trustees
of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation
from 1987 to 1991 and was chair from
1990 to 1991. Mr. Langland is past
chairman of the Alaska State Chamber of
Commerce and the Fairbanks Chamber. In
2008, the Alaska State Chamber awarded
Mr. Langland the William A. Egan
Outstanding Alaskan Award. He is also a
director of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air
(subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group), Usibelli
Coal Mine, Elliott Cove Capital Management,
and Pacific Wealth Advisors, a member of
the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, and
a board member and past chairman of
Commonwealth North. Mr. Langland’s
background and skills as a business leader
in the state of Alaska, which represents a
significant portion of the Company’s
business, qualify him for his role on the
Alaska Air Group Board.
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