Management

Mr. Conesa serves as our chief executive officer since 2005 and has been a member of our board of directors since 2004. He is also a member of our executive committee and our safety committee. In 2023, Mr. Conesa was appointed as the chairman of the SkyTeam alliance. Additionally, he has served on the board of directors of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) since 2017 and was chairman and a member of the board of directors of Cintra between 2003 and 2005. Mr. Conesa was also the chairman of the board of IATA during IATA’s 2015 term and the chairman of the executive committee of ALTA between 2013 and 2015. He also served as a member of the IEnova board from 2013 to 2017, as well as a member of the Mexican Stock Exchange board from 2006 to 2007. He previously served as a member of the following boards of directors: SkyTeam, Aeromexpress, and Aeroméxico Servicios. Mr. Conesa has held several significant government positions, including as general economic planning director and head of the public debt management, from 2003 to 2004, and international economic affairs general director of the Ministry of Finance, from 1998 to 2000, and coordinator of advisors, from 1997 to 1998, of the Mexican Ministry of Finance (Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público). Mr. Conesa holds a B.A. degree in economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, or ITAM, and a Ph.D. degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT. Mr. Conesa has received Fulbright, Ford and MacArthur scholarships. In 1997, Mr. Conesa was awarded the National Economics Prize, granted by Banamex.

Mr. Sánchez Baker has been our chief financial officer since 2006. Mr. Sánchez Baker has also served as advisor to our chief executive officer between 2005 and 2006 and our director of revenue management between 2006 and 2007. In addition, Mr. Sánchez Baker previously held the following positions: chairman of the board of directors of the Sabre Corporation between 2007 and 2008; the chair of the SEAT Technical Committee between 2007 and 2008; and chairman of the board of directors of PLM between 2019 and 2023. He also held various positions within the Mexican federal government, including deputy director general of public debt for the Ministry of Finance between 2003 and 2005. Mr. Sánchez Baker holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universidad Iberoamericana, a diploma in brokerage finance from the ITAM and a Master’s and Ph.D. in economics from the University of California in Los Angeles.

Mr. Diago has been our chief operating and maintenance officer since 2021. Mr. Diago served as Avianca’s (formerly NYSE:AVH) executive vice-president of customer experience between 2016 and 2018, chief operating officer between 2013 and 2016, and vice president of operations between 2001 and 2009. In addition, Mr. Diago has more than 27 years of experience in other airlines such as LAC, where he was a DC-8 co-pilot, and LAN, where he was general manager for Mexico and Cuba. Mr. Diago has a law degree with emphasis in socioeconomic sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá and is an ATP licensed pilot with approximately 8,000 flight hours.

Mr. Murray joined our team as chief commercial officer in 2021. He has more than 22 years of commercial aviation experience, including as network planning, alliances, sales, revenue management and distribution officer at Northwest Airlines, where he worked between 2001 and 2008, and Delta (NYSE: DAL), where he worked between 2008 and 2019. He has extensive international experience, managing portfolios in key airline markets in Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA), Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, in São Paulo, Brazil, prior to his move to Mexico City. In 2019, he joined our company as senior vice president of revenue management. Mr. Murray has also been a member of the board of directors of the Delta Flight Museum Committee since 2017. Mr. Murray holds a bachelor of arts and master in business administration (MBA) from the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.

Mr. Gómez has been our general counsel and chief legal officer since 2022 and a member of the board of directors of certain of our subsidiaries. Before joining us, Mr. Gómez was a legal director and the chief legal counsel for North Latin America at Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) between 2017 and 2022, and associate general counsel of America Móvil (BMV: AMX) between 2008 and 2017. Mr. Gómez was an international associate attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP between 2011 and 2012; and an associate attorney at Brigard & Urrutia Abogados in Colombia between 2004 and 2007, providing legal advice on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, commercial and labor law. Mr. Gómez holds a law degree from Universidad de los Andes and an LL.M from University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Mr. Castañeda is our chief digital and customer experience officer. Before joining us, he served as manager of media and communications at Unilever’s Mexico Division between 2011 and 2014, and as director of operations at Clarus Digital between 2011 and 2012. He has also been the president of the Airline Passenger Experience Association, or APEX, since 2021 and a member of APEX’s board of directors since 2018. He has a bachelor’s degree in finance from ITESM.

Ms. Garza has served as our chief human resources officer since 2017. She is responsible for talent acquisition, talent management and development, as well as sustaining and strengthening the culture and engagement between more than 16,000 employees globally. Throughout her career, she has held key roles in various companies, such as talent management senior director for PepsiCo Latin America between 2015 and 2017; and senior human resources director for PepsiCo Mexico between 2008 and 2015. She also served as human resources director for Microsoft Mexico between 1997 and 2008. Ms. Garza holds a bachelor’s degree in organizational psychology from ITESM and an MBA from ITAM.