Sun, Oct 12, 2003
Donald E. Baldwin Is NBAA's New Chairman
Election of officers
for two-year terms took place at the NBAA Board of Directors
Meeting during the Association's 56th Annual Meeting &
Convention. The NBAA Board elected Donald E. Baldwin of The Coca
Cola Company to serve as the Association's chairman of the Board
and Kenneth E. Emerick of GM Worldwide Travel Services to serve as
vice chairman. Jeffrey W. Lee of IBM Corporation, who had been
elected by the Board in April 2003 as treasurer-elect, assumed his
term as treasurer. George A. Saling of Altria Corporate Services,
Inc. will serve on the Board's Executive Committee in the position
of immediate past chairman.
NBAA Chairman Donald E. Baldwin was recruited to work for The
Coca Cola Company in 2001 as its director, corporate aviation
subsequent to retiring from Texaco, Inc. after more than 25 years
with that company. He joined Texaco, Inc. in 1974 as a copilot and
at retirement was its manager of aviation transport services.
Baldwin is a graduate of Wilmington College and the Darden School
at the University of Virginia. In serving on the NBAA Board, he
follows in the footsteps of his father, Donald A. Baldwin, who
likewise worked for Texaco, Inc.'s flight department and was an
NBAA Board Member from 1968 to 1978, when he retired from Texaco.
In the past, Baldwin has served the Association as chairman of its
Industry Affairs Committee and as a member of its Corporate
Aviation Management Committee.
NBAA Vice Chairman
Kenneth E. Emerick was first appointed to the NBAA Board in January
2000 to fill a vacancy and was elected to the Board for his first
three-year term in October 2000. He is director of aviation for GM
Worldwide Travel Services, a company he joined early in his career
after graduating from Wayne State University. He served as chairman
of the NBAA Corporate Aviation Management Committee for three
years.
Treasurer Jeffrey W. Lee is the director of flight operations
for IBM Corporation, which he joined in 1980 as a copilot. He
earned a B.S. in engineering from the United States Air Force
Academy and was a USAF flight instructor from 1974 to 1980. Prior
to joining the NBAA Board in 2001, he served first as vice chairman
and then chairman of NBAA's Corporate Aviation Management
Committee.
These officers' terms will conclude at the NBAA 58th Annual
Meeting & Convention, scheduled to be held in New Orleans, LA
from November 15 to 17, 2005.
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