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Thomas G. Plaskett, Chairman (Proposed), is a corporate director and executive with more than 25 years of executive management and senior level policy experience in the corporate areas of service, manufacturing and transportation.
Since 1991, Mr. Plaskett has served as chairman of Fox Run Capital Associates, a private consulting firm in Dallas, focusing on financial advisory and consulting services for emerging companies. Previously, he was chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Pan Am Corporation from 1988 to 1991, and president and chief executive officer of Continental Airlines from 1986 to 1987. Also, from 1974 to 1986, he held several senior management positions at American Airlines and AMR Corporation, including senior vice president of marketing, senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer. He also was vice-chairman of Legend Airlines in Dallas from 1996 to 2000. Mr. Plaskett was elected to the board of directors of Greyhound Lines, Inc., in May, 1994, and served as interim president and chief executive officer of the company for a period in late 1994. He was elected chairman of the board in 1995 and served in that role until the company was sold in March 1999.
Mr. Plaskett is the non-executive chairman of Novell Corporation and presiding director of RadioShack Corporation, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. He is also a director of Alcon, Incorporated, in Fort Worth. He serves as trustee and past chairman of the board of trustees for Kettering University (formerly GMI Engineering and Management Institute) in Flint, Michigan.
Mr. Plaskett holds an MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. | 