Ben Minicucci

Qualifications:
•   Airline/Transportation/Safety Expertise
•   Business Development and Mergers and Acquisitions Experience
•   Climate/Carbon Expertise
•   Government/Public Affairs/Regulatory Expertise
•   HR/Org. Strategy
•   Investor Relations Expertise
•   Public Company Governance Experience
•   Public Company CEO Experience

Professional highlights:
Mr. Minicucci has been chief executive officer of Alaska Air Group (Air Group) and Alaska Airlines (Alaska) since 2021. He has been president of Alaska since 2016 and became president of Air Group in 2021. He served as chief operating officer from 2008 until 2019. Mr. Minicucci also served as chief executive officer of Virgin America Inc. from 2016 to 2018. Prior to this, he held various executive positions at Alaska, including executive vice president of operations, vice president of Seattle operations, and staff vice president of maintenance and engineering. Before joining Alaska, Mr. Minicucci had a variety of roles at Air Canada and served in the Canadian Armed Forces for 14 years prior to joining the private aviation sector. Mr. Minicucci served on the board of PG&E Corporation (an energy-based holding company) from 2018 to 2019.

Current non-public company board service:
•   University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business, Center for Leadership and Strategic Thinking
•   UNCF

Education:
•   BS and MS, Royal Military College of Canada
•   Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School