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Continental Airlines and United Airlines have
selected the new senior leadership team of the combined airline.
They will report directly to Jeff Smisek, who will serve as
president and chief executive officer. The board of directors of
the new airline is expected to elect the following senior officers
as executive vice presidents at the close of the
merger of the two
companies:
- Mike Bonds, who joined Continental in 1995,
will be responsible for human resources and labor relations.
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Jim Compton, who joined Continental in 1995, will serve as chief
marketing officer.
- Jeff Foland, who joined United in 2005,
will lead the combined carrier’s loyalty program.
- Nene
Foxhall, who joined Continental in 1995, will oversee the
communications and government affairs functions.
- Keith
Halbert, who joined United in 2008, will be chief information
officer.
- Pete McDonald, who joined United in 1969, will be
chief operations officer.
- Zane Rowe, who joined Continental
in 1993, will be chief financial officer.
- Tom Sabatino, who
joined United in 2010, will be general counsel.
Glenn Tilton, chairman and chief executive
officer of United Airlines, who will serve as non-executive
chairman of the combined airline, said, “We have exceptional
executives across our two companies; this created a superb talent
pool from which to determine the senior executive team to take the
company forward – and, at the same time, we have equally talented
people who will continue to contribute to successfully executing
our individual performance agendas between now and close.”
The new leadership team will work with Smisek to
design the overall officer-level organization and select the
remainder of the leadership team. Concurrently, the companies are
developing a talent-selection process for other management and
clerical roles and refining the planned organizational structure.
The companies expect the
merger to close before year-end.
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