People: Alaska Air Group Inc (ALK)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
William Ayer	58	2012	Executive Chairman of the Board
Bradley Tilden	52	2012	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Alaska Air Group Inc., and Alaska Airlines Inc.
Brandon Pedersen	46	2010	Chief Financial Officer, Vice President - Finance of Alaska Air Group Inc., and Alaska Airlines Inc.
Keith Loveless	56	2012	Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary of Alaska Air Group Inc., and Alaska Airlines Inc.
Glenn Johnson	54	2012	Executive Vice President; President of Horizon Air Industries Inc.
Benito Minicucci	46	2008	Executive Vice President - Operations and Chief Operating Officer of Alaska Airlines, Inc.
Phyllis Campbell	61	2012	Lead Independent Director
Patricia Bedient	59	2004	Independent Director
Marion Blakey	64	2010	Independent Director
Jessie Knight	62	2002	Independent Director
R. Marc Langland	71	2012	Independent Director
Dennis Madsen	64	2003	Independent Director
Byron Mallott	69	1982	Independent Director
J. Kenneth Thompson	61	1999	Independent Director
Eric Yeaman	45	2012	Independent Director
Chris Berry			Managing Director - Investor Relations

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Biographies

Name	Description
William Ayer	Mr. William S. Ayer is Executive Chairman of the Board of Alaska Air Group Inc. 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.
Bradley Tilden	Mr. Bradley D. Tilden is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Alaska Air Group Inc., and Alaska Airlines Inc. He served as executive vice president of finance and planning from 2002 to 2008 and as chief financial officer from 2000 to 2008 for Alaska Airlines and Alaska Air Group. Prior to 2000, Mr. Tilden was vice president of finance at Alaska Airlines and Alaska Air Group. Mr. Tilden worked for the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers prior to joining Alaska Airlines. He also serves on the boards of Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air, Flow International, Pacific Lutheran University, and chairs the board of the Chief Seattle Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
Brandon Pedersen	Mr. Brandon S. Pedersen is Chief Financial Officer, Vice President - Finance of Alaska Air Group Inc., and Alaska Airlines Inc. He joined Alaska Airlines in 2003 as Staff Vice President/Finance and Controller of Alaska Air Group and Alaska Airlines and was elected Vice President/Finance and Controller for both entities in 2006. He was elected Vice President/Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Alaska Air Group and Alaska Airlines in June 2010. He is a member of Air Group's Management Executive Committee.
Keith Loveless	Mr. Keith Loveless is Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary of Alaska Air Group, Inc., and Alaska Airlines, Inc. Mr. Loveless became Corporate Secretary and Assistant General Counsel of Alaska Air Group and Alaska Airlines in 1996. In 1999, he was named Vice President/Legal and Corporate Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Alaska Air Group and Alaska Airlines. He was elected Executive Vice President Alaska Air Group in November 2012. He is a member of Air Group’s Management Executive Committee.
Glenn Johnson	Mr. Glenn S. Johnson is Executive Vice President of Alaska Air Group Inc., and President of Horizon Air Industries, Inc. Mr. Johnson joined Alaska Airlines in 1982, became Vice President/Controller and Treasurer of Horizon Air Industries in 1991 and Vice President/Customer Services in 2002. He returned to Alaska Airlines in 2003 where he has served in several roles, including Vice President/Finance and Controller and Vice President/Finance and Treasurer. He served as Senior Vice President/Customer Service – Airports from January 2006 through April 2007 and in April 2007, he was elected Executive Vice President/Airports and Maintenance and Engineering. He was elected Executive Vice President/Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Alaska Air Group and Alaska Airlines in December 2008. He was elected President of Horizon Air Industries in June 2010. He was elected Executive Vice President Alaska Air Group in November 2012. He is a member of Air Group’s Management Executive Committee.
Benito Minicucci	Mr. Benito Minicucci is Executive Vice President - Operations and Chief Operating Officer of Alaska Airlines, Inc., a subsidiary of Alaska Air Group Inc. He joined Alaska Airlines in 2004 as Staff Vice President of Maintenance and Engineering and was promoted to Vice President of Seattle Operations in June 2008. He was elected Executive Vice President/Operations and Chief Operating Officer of Alaska Airlines in December 2008. He is a member of Air Group’s Management Executive Committee.
Phyllis Campbell	Ms. Phyllis J. Campbell is Lead Independent Director of Alaska Air Group Inc. Ms. Campbell is lead director and chair of the Board's Governance and Nominating Committee. She was named chair of the Pacific Northwest Region of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in April 2009 and, as vice chair, is the firm's most senior executive in the region. From 2003 to 2009, Ms. Campbell served as president and CEO of The Seattle Foundation, one of the nation's community philanthropic foundations. She was president of U.S. Bank of Washington from 1993 until 2001 and served as chair of the bank's Community Board. Ms. Campbell has received several awards for her corporate and community involvement. These awards include the Women Who Make A Difference Award and the Director of the Year from the Northwest Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Since August 2007, Ms. Campbell has served on Toyota's Diversity Advisory Board. She also serves on the boards of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air (subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group), the Joshua Green Corporation, and Nordstrom, where she is chair of the audit committee. Until February 2009, she served on the boards of Puget Energy and its subsidiary, Puget Sound Energy.
Patricia Bedient	Ms. Patricia M. Bedient is Independent Director of Alaska Air Group Inc. Ms. Bedient chairs the Board's Audit Committee. She is executive vice president and CFO for Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world's 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.
Marion Blakey	Ms. Marion C. Blakey is Independent Director of Alaska Air Group, Inc. Ms. Blakey is chair of the Board's Safety Committee. She also served on the Board's Audit Committee during 2012. Ms. Blakey is president and CEO of The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), the nation's aerospace and defense trade association. Prior to her current position, she served as the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (the “FAA”) from 2002 to 2007 and chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) from 2001 to 2002. Ms. Blakey also serves on the boards of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air (subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group), Noblis, the NASA Advisory Council, and the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Export Administration (PECSEA), as well as a number of philanthropic and community organizations, including the Washington Area Airports Task Force Advisory Board, International Aviation Women's Association, and Friends Foundation Advisory Board.
Jessie Knight	Mr. Jessie J. Knight, Jr., is Independent Director of Alaska Air Group Inc. 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.
R. Marc Langland	Mr. R. Marc Langland is Independent Director of Alaska Air Group Inc. 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 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 Advisors, a member of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, and a board member and past chairman of Commonwealth North.
Dennis Madsen	Mr. Dennis F. Madsen is Independent Director of Alaska Air Group Inc. Mr. Madsen serves on the Board's Compensation and Leadership Development Committee and its Audit Committee. He is currently the chair of Evolucion Inc. (evo.com), an action sports retailer in Seattle. 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 positions throughout 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 serves on West Marine's governance and compensation committees. Other boards on which Mr. Madsen is a member 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.
Byron Mallott	Mr. Byron I. Mallott is Independent Director of Alaska Air Group Inc. 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 also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian. He has served the state of Alaska in various advisory and executive capacities, and has served 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 the state of Alaska's oil reserves. He was a director of Sealaska Corporation (Juneau, Alaska) from 1972 to 1988, chair from 1976 to 1983, and CEO from 1982 to 1992. He owns Mallott Enterprises (personal investments) and is a director of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air (subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group), a director and member of the nominating committee of Sealaska Corporation, and a director and member of the audit committee of Yak-Tat Kwaan, Inc. and Native American Bank, NA.
J. Kenneth Thompson	Mr. J. Kenneth Thompson is Independent Director of Alaska Air Group Inc. Mr. Thompson is chair of the Board's Compensation and Leadership Development Committee and serves on the Board's Safety Committee. Since 2000, Mr. Thompson has been president and CEO of Pacific Star Energy LLC, a private energy investment company in Alaska, with partial ownership in the oil exploration firm Alaska Venture Capital Group (AVCG LLC). Mr. Thompson served as executive vice president of ARCO's Asia Pacific oil and gas operating companies in Alaska, California, Indonesia, China and Singapore from 1998 to 2000. Prior to that, he was president of ARCO Alaska, Inc., the parent company's oil and gas producing division based in Anchorage, Alaska. He also serves on the boards of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air (subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group), Pioneer Natural Resources Company, Tetra Tech, Inc., and Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation, as well as on the non-profit board of Provision Ministry Group. Mr. Thompson also serves on the environmental, health, safety and social responsibility, the governance and nominating, and the audit committees of Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation. At Tetra Tech, Mr. Thompson serves on the audit, the governance and nominating, and the strategy planning committees and chairs the compensation committee. At Pioneer Natural Resources, he serves on the governance and nominating, compensation and hydrocarbon reserves committees.
Eric Yeaman	Mr. Eric K. Yeaman is Independent Director of Alaska Air Group Inc. He is president and CEO of Hawaiian Telcom. Prior to joining Hawaiian Telcom in June 2008, Mr. Yeaman was senior executive vice president and COO of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (HECO). Mr. Yeaman joined Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc., HECO's parent company, in January 2003 as financial vice president, treasurer and CFO. Prior to this, Mr. Yeaman held the positions of chief operating and financial officer for Kamehameha Schools from July 2000 to January 2003. He began his career at Arthur Andersen LLP in September 1989. Mr. Yeaman serves on the not-for-profit boards of Queen's Health Systems, Bishop Museum, Hawaii Community Foundation, Hawaii Business Roundtable, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Kamehameha Schools Audit Committee, Aloha United Way, and the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation. He is also a director of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air (subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group), Alexander & Baldwin, the United States Telcom Association, and a member of the Hawaii Asia Pacific Association.
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Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
William Ayer	675,449
Bradley Tilden	5,691,370
Brandon Pedersen	1,199,500
Keith Loveless	2,212,390
Glenn Johnson	2,094,480
Benito Minicucci	1,697,720
Phyllis Campbell	--
Patricia Bedient	--
Marion Blakey	--
Jessie Knight	--
R. Marc Langland	--
Dennis Madsen	--
Byron Mallott	--
J. Kenneth Thompson	--
Eric Yeaman	--
Chris Berry	--

As Of 30 Dec 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
William Ayer	697,126	8,027,060
Bradley Tilden	346,232	4,914,107
Brandon Pedersen	9,540	212,293
Keith Loveless	31,600	682,626
Glenn Johnson	34,096	757,701
Benito Minicucci	21,134	496,781
Phyllis Campbell	0	0
Patricia Bedient	0	0
Marion Blakey	0	0
Jessie Knight	0	0
R. Marc Langland	0	0
Dennis Madsen	0	0
Byron Mallott	0	0
J. Kenneth Thompson	0	0
Eric Yeaman	0	0
Chris Berry	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
AYER WILLIAM S	366	$21.43
AYER WILLIAM S	366	$68.00
JOHNSON GLENN S	4,000	$67.47
AYER WILLIAM S	15,000	$66.07
ELIASEN MARK G	1,394	$13.11
AYER WILLIAM S	15,000	$21.43
ELIASEN MARK G	1,394	$63.00
MINICUCCI BENITO	820	$38.00
MINICUCCI BENITO	8,820	$66.10
ELIASEN MARK G	1,023	$57.66
AYER WILLIAM S	600	$21.43
AYER WILLIAM S	600	$63.12
AYER WILLIAM S	300	$63.00
AYER WILLIAM S	300	$21.43
AYER WILLIAM S	1,400	$21.43
AYER WILLIAM S	1,400	$63.07
AYER WILLIAM S	300	$21.43
AYER WILLIAM S	300	$63.01
AYER WILLIAM S	7,400	$21.43
AYER WILLIAM S	7,400	$63.00
TACKETT SHANE R	700	$59.19
SPRAGUE JOSEPH A	5,000	$59.17
AYER WILLIAM S	223	$57.12
SPRAGUE JOSEPH A	8,000	$0.00
SPRAGUE JOSEPH A	2,188	$57.50

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