annual report 2009 - Aer Lingus

10 Board of Directors Aer Lingus Group Plc – Annual Report 2009Board of DirectorsLeft to right: Colm Barrington, Christoph Mueller, David Begg, Montie Brewer, Leslie Buckley, Thomas Corcoran, Laurence Crowley.Colm Barrington (Chairman)(7) (8) (9)Colm Barrington was appointed to the Board on19 September 2008 and appointed as Chairmanon 3 October 2008. He is Chief Executive Officer anda director of Babcock and Brown Air Limited, theNYSE listed, Irish based, aircraft leasing company.He was formerly Managing Director of Babcock andBrown in Dublin from 1994 to 2007. Prior to that heheld a number of senior executive managementpositions in GPA Group Plc from 1979 to 1993 andwas appointed President of GE Capital AviationServices Limited following its acquisition of GPAGroup Plc. He has represented Ireland in internationalyacht racing and in 2007, he completed the BarringtonReport on the Irish Private Health Insurance Industryfor the Minister for Health and Children.Christoph Mueller(Chief Executive Officer)Christoph Mueller was appointed Chief ExecutiveOfficer and a member of the Board in September 2009.Prior to his appointment he was most recently theAviation Director at TUI Travel plc, a leading internationalleisure travel group operating a pan-European airlinewith over 160 aircraft. He has extensive experiencewithin the aviation industry, having held senior positionsin Daimler Benz Aerospace, Lufthansa AG, the SabenaGroup, DHL and Deutsche Post AG, prior to his roles atTUI Travel plc. He served as the Chief Financial Officerof DHL Worldwide from 2002 to 2004 and became amember of the Executive Committee of Deutsche PostAG in 2004. In January 2006, Mr Mueller joined theExecutive Committee of TUI AG with responsibility fortheir flight division. In 2007, TUI AG merged its traveldivision with First Choice Holidays PLC to form TUITravel plc, a leading international travel group listed onthe London Stock Exchange and a member of the FTSE100. Mr Mueller served as Executive Director, Aviation,at TUI Travel plc, where he managed a total of sevenseparate airlines, a fleet of 160 short-haul and long-haulaircraft and a team of 11,000 employees.David Begg(8) (10) (12)David Begg was appointed to the Board on 29 January2008. Mr Begg became General Secretary of the IrishCongress of Trade Unions in 2001. For five years priorto that he was Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide,an international humanitarian organisation working in27 countries and with offices in Dublin, London, Belfast,New York and Chicago. He is also a Director of theCentral Bank (since 1995), a Governor of the IrishTimes Trust, member of the ESRI Council, a memberof the National Economic and Social Council (NESC),and of the Advisory Board of Development CooperationIreland. He also sits on the ExecutiveCommittee of the European Trade UnionConfederation (ETUC).Montie BrewerMontie Brewer was appointed to the Boardon 25 January 2010. He is an airline veteran anda recognised industry innovator in airline pricing,sales and distribution strategies. Most recently hewas President and CEO of Air Canada. He is currentlya Non-executive Director of Allegiant Travel Company,recognised as one of North America’s most innovativeairline and travel groups. He holds a BA in BusinessAdministration & Transportation Management fromMichigan State University.Leslie Buckley (11)Leslie Buckley was appointed to the Board on18 May 2009. He is a founding director of Digicela telecommunications group with over nine millionsubscribers and operations across the Caribbean,Central America and South Pacific. Previously,Mr Buckley was involved in the start-up of EsatTelecom group plc and Esat Digifone Limited andheld the position of acting Chief Operating Officerof Esat Telecom during 1996 and 1997. Mr Buckleyestablished his own consultancy business in 1990and was retained on a number of key public andprivate sector appointments. He is currently theChairman of Saongroup.com and Business RecoveryServices Limited. He is also a director of the IrishMedical Organisation Services Limited. In January 2009Mr Buckley established Haven, a charitable foundationdedicated to building and up-grading houses for thepoorest of the poor, initially in Haiti, through long-termpartnership programmes with communities and anannual Volunteer based “Build-It-Week”. In March 2009Mr Buckley was appointed to the Board of IndependentNews & Media PLC.Thomas Corcoran(7) (10)Thomas Corcoran was appointed to the Board on4 May 2007. Mr Corcoran has extensive and in-depthexperience in the aviation industry worldwide. He iscurrently a Senior Advisor to The Carlyle Group andPresident of Corcoran Enterprises LLC, a managementconsultancy firm. He has held senior executivemanagement positions at General Electric andLockheed Martin. Mr Corcoran is a member onthe Boards of Directors of ARINC Incorporated(A Carlyle Company), L-3 Communications Corporation,REMEC Incorporated, LaBarge Incorporated and SercoPlc. He is also a Director of Aircraft ManagementTechnologies, a privately held Irish company.He is active in the American Ireland Fund wherehe is a Director. He is a graduate of Stevens Instituteof Technology where he is a Trustee and holds anhonorary PhD.Laurence Crowley(4) (6)Laurence Crowley was appointed to the Boardon 9 January 2009 and is the Senior IndependentDirector on the Board. He is Chairman of ‘Gaisce –The President’s Award’, the Gate Theatre, TheMiddletown Centre for Autism, Ecocem Limited andRealex Payments. He is also a member of the Boardof the Economic and Social Research Institute, An BordGáis, the Advisory Board of the US-Ireland Alliance anda number of other companies. He previously served asGovernor of the Bank of Ireland (where he completed