John A. Slowik has been one of our directors since 2012 and he also serves as a member of our audit committee. He has over three decades of experience in the air transportation and commercial aerospace sectors as a banker at Citi (and its predecessors) and Credit Suisse, where he managed its America’s Airline Industry investment banking practice. His extensive experience includes corporate and investment banking, where his activities involved public and private capital raising, structured debt issuance, aircraft leasing, principal investment and mergers and acquisitions advisory work. Mr. Slowik is also a member of the board of directors of Rotor Engine Securitization, Ltd. and Turbine USA LLC, private commercial jet engine leasing companies operating out of Ireland and the United States, respectively. Mr. Slowik is a board member and chairs the audit committees of two related, but separately incorporated, privately held companies – Quintillion Holdings, LLC and Quintillion Subsea Holdings, LLC. These companies are building and will operate a subsea system connecting Nome, Alaska to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, with four landing stations in between, and a terrestrial fiber optic cable system connecting Prudhoe Bay to Fairbanks, Alaska. Mr. Slowik has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Marquette University and a Masters in Management from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University.