Board of Directors
Jerry Atkin
Chairman of SkyWest, Inc. & subsidiaries
- Joined SkyWest in 1974 as Director of Finance
- Served as CEO from 1975-2015
- Elected Chairman of the Board in 1991
- Currently serves on the Board of Directors of Zions Bancorporation
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 a Director on the Salt Lake City Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy
- Member of the Board since 1986
- Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board, Air Lease Corporation
- Lead Director
- Chair – Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee
- Member – Compensation Committee
James L. Welch
- Member of the Board since 2007
- CEO, YRC Worldwide, Inc.
- Member – Audit & Finance Committee
- Member – Safety & Compliance
- Member – Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee
W. Steve Albrecht
- Member of the Board 2003-2009; since 2012
- Gunnell Endowed Professor of Accountancy and Wheatley Fellow at Brigham Young University
- 2017 Outstanding Directors honoree by Utah Business and National Association of Corporate Directors - Utah Chapter
- Chair – Audit & Finance Committee
- Member – Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee
- Financial Expert
Ronald J. Mittelstaedt
- Appointed to the Board October 2013
- Chairman, President and CEO Waste Connections, Inc.
- Member – Compensation Committee
- Member – Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee
- Member – Safety & Compliance Committee
Keith E. Smith
- Appointed to the Board October 2013
- President and CEO, Boyd Gaming
- Chair – Compensation Committee
- Member – Audit & Finance Committee
Andrew C. Roberts
- Member of the Board since May 2015
- Executive Chairman, Ryan Herco Flow Solutions LLC
- Chair – Safety & Compliance Committee
- Member – Audit & Finance Committee
Meredith S. Madden
- Member of the Board since May 2015
- CEO of NORDAM Group, Inc.
- Member – Safety & Compliance Committee
- Member – Compensation Committee
Smita Conjeevaram
- Appointed to the board January 2021
- Director and audit committee member of SS&C Technologies
- Former Deputy CFO of Fortress Investment Group’s Credit Funds and CFO of the Fortress Investment Group’s Credit Hedge Funds
- Member – Audit & Finance Committee
