Perhaps Qantas feel that William Meaney is enough aviation experience on the board.
William Meaney was appointed to the Qantas Board in February 2012.
He is a Member of the Safety, Health, Environment and Security Committee and the Remuneration Committee
Mr Meaney is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Iron Mountain Inc. He is a Member of the Asia Business Council and also serves as Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Mr Meaney was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of The Zuellig Group and a Director of moksha8 Pharmaceuticals Inc. He was also the Managing Director and Chief Commercial Officer of Swiss International Airlines and Executive Vice President of South African Airways responsible for sales, alliances and network management.
Prior to these roles, Mr Meaney spent 11 years providing strategic advisory services at Genhro Management Consultancy as the Founder and Managing Director, and as a Principal with Strategic Planning Associates.
Mr Meaney holds United States, Swiss and Irish citizenships.
Age: 54
Though his background as VP in SAA isn't exactly an operational role!
An interesting comparison with VOz.
1.
David Baxby
David Baxby was appointed to the Virgin Australia Board on 30 September 2004. He is also a Director of Tiger Airways Australia Pty Ltd.
David is the CEO of Global Blue SA. David was previously the Co-CEO of the Virgin Group until 30 June 2013 and his past directorships include Virgin Atlantic Ltd, Virgin Holidays Ltd, Virgin America Inc and Air Asia X. David was also an investment banker for ten years with Goldman Sachs.
A little aviation background there.
2.
Josh Bayliss
osh has extensive experience as both an executive and non-executive director of a large number of companies across the Virgin Group globally in all of Virgin’s industry sectors including aviation, financial services, telecoms and media, health and wellness and entertainment.
He has been with the Virgin Group since 2005, previously serving as the Group’s General Counsel before taking on the CEO role in 2011.
3. The other airline experience on the VOz board is the three CEOs of Air NZ, Singair and Etihad.
Certainly a fair bit more aviation experience than then on the QF board. That said, is it making a difference?
I'm with Jaba on this one. I'd prefer a brand and marketing person (who at least understands the important of 'the product') than a mergers and acquisition person who just sees the $$$$.