– USA, NY – JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU) today announced the appointments of Jesse Lynn and Steven Miller to its Board as Independent Directors, following an agreement with Icahn Enterprises L.P., a major shareholder of JetBlue. With these additions, the Board will expand to 13 members, of whom 12 are expected to be independent.
“We are pleased to have reached this agreement with Icahn Enterprises. Our board and leadership team are focusing our full attention on taking aggressive action to return to profitability and strengthen JetBlue’s foundation for the future. We welcome Jesse and Steven to the board. With their experience on public company boards, often when navigating key inflection points, they will add useful insights as we set JetBlue on a path back to long-term sustainable growth and shareholder value creation.” said Board Chair, Peter Boneparth.
About Jesse Lynn
Jesse Lynn has been the general counsel of Icahn Enterprises L.P. since 2014. Previously, Jesse Lynn served as assistant general counsel of IEP, an associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, P.C., and an associate at Gordon Altman Butowsky Weitzen Shalov & Wein. He has been a director on numerous company boards. He currently serves on the board of Conduent and has served on the boards of Crown Holdings, Xerox Holdings Corporation, FirstEnergy Corp., Cloudera, Herbalife Nutrition, and The Manitowoc Company, Inc.
He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the Boston University School of Law.
About Steven Miller
Steven Miller is a portfolio manager at Icahn Capital L.P., a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises L.P. He currently serves as a director at Dana Incorporated, Bausch Health Companies, Inc., and Conduent Incorporated. Before joining Icahn Capital in October 2020, Steven Miller was an analyst in the Distressed and Special Situations investment group at BlueMountain Capital Management, LLC, and an analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He has previously been a director at Xerox Holdings Corporation and Herc Holdings.
He received a B.S. summa cum laude from Duke University in 2011.
About JetBlue
JetBlue is New York’s Hometown Airline®, and a leading carrier in Boston, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, Los Angeles, Orlando, and San Juan. JetBlue, known for its low fares and great service, carries customers to more than 100 destinations throughout the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, and Europe.
SOURCE: jetblue.com.
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