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Gordon M. Bethune (born August 29, 1941) is a retired US airline executive. He was the CEO of Continental Airlines from 1994 until his retirement at the end of 2004. He was on the boards of Honeywell and Prudential Financial .
Continental Airlines ... Former Boeing executive Gordon Bethune became president and CEO in October 1994 and was elected chairman of the board of directors in 1996. [51]
Lawrence W. Kellner (born January 19, 1959) is a former CEO of Continental Airlines, having succeeded Gordon Bethune as CEO in December 2004. Prior to his arrival at Continental, he was the chief financial officer of American Savings Bank. [1] Kellner retired as the airline's CEO at the end of December 2009.
For a company to achieve success, it needs a strong leader at the helm. Top-performing CEOs can transform sinking businesses into profit-making corporations -- but not all leaders have the magic...
US Airways (LCC) and United (UAUA) are in merger talks that could create a carrier as big as that formed by the Delta (DAL) buyout of Northwest Airlines. Even as scale and the related cost savings ...
The only good news about the merger between United (UAUA) and Continental Airlines (CAL) is that it will bring Southwest (LUV) into the mix at Newark Airport, giving the carrier a much larger ...
In 1995 Continental's then-CEO Gordon Bethune persuaded Smisek to leave Vinson & Elkins to join Continental as General Counsel and help reverse the ailing airline's fortunes. Smisek became one of the chief architects of Continental's dramatic turnaround. Bethune once told USA Today that Smisek was the airline's
The Gordon M. Bethune Stock Index From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Gordon M. Bethune joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -12.9 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.