Board of Directors
James L. Welch
Chairman of the Board
- Member of the Board since 2007
- Retired CEO, YRC Worldwide, Inc.
- Currently serves on the Board of Directors of Schneider National, Inc. and Stericycle, Inc.
- Member – Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee
Chip Childs
President and Chief Executive Officer of SkyWest, Inc.
- Became CEO of SkyWest, Inc. in January 2016
- Appointed to the Board January 2016
- Joined SkyWest Airlines in 2001 as Vice President – Controller
- Currently serves as Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and as the Intermountain Health Desert Region Board Vice Chair
Smita Conjeevaram
- Appointed to the board January 2021
- Currently serves on the Board of Directors of SS&C Technologies, McGrath Rentcorp, and Board Chair at Wisdom Tree Investments, Inc.
- Former Deputy CFO of Fortress Investment Group’s Credit Funds and CFO of the Fortress Investment Group’s Credit Hedge Funds
- Member – Audit & Finance, Compensation, and Safety & Compliance Committees
Derek J. Leathers
- Member of the Board since May 2024
- Chairman and CEO of Werner Enterprises, Inc.
- Serves as Chairman of the American Transportation Research Institute, is on the Executive Committee for the American Trucking Associations, is on the Executive Board of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, is on the Executive Committee for United Way of the Midlands, and is a Board of Trustee for Creighton University
- Member – Audit & Finance, Nominating & Corporate Governance, Safety & Compliance Committees
Meredith S. Madden
- Member of the Board since May 2015
- CEO of NORDAM Group, Inc.
- Serves on the board of Tempur Sealy International, Inc. (NYSE: TPX)
- Emeritus Member of the Board of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
- Chair – Safety & Compliance Committee
- Member – Compensation, and Nominating & Corporate Governance Committees
Ronald J. Mittelstaedt
- Appointed to the Board October 2013
- President and CEO of Waste Connections, Inc.
- Chair – Compensation Committee
- Member – Audit & Finance, Nominating & Corporate Governance, and Safety & Compliance Committees
Keith E. Smith
- Appointed to the Board October 2013
- President and CEO, Boyd Gaming
- Currently serves on the Board of Directors of Boyd Gaming
- Chair – Audit & Finance, and Nominating & Corporate Governance Committees
- Member – Compensation Committee
- Financial Expert
