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. . . . Ryan brings with him three additional leaders from Delta as consultants to help lead the company. Barry Wilbur, whose specialty is operations, is currently Managing Director of Flying Operations and a 767 First Officer, responsible for administrative management of over 12,000 Delta pilots. Also joining us is Loren Neuenschwander, whose specialty is finance. Loren has held a variety of roles with Delta, most recently in Paris as the managing director of Alliance Partnerships overseeing the joint venture with Air France and KLM. His previous assignment included oversight of the financial performance of the nine Delta Connection carriers. Mike Becker will be joining them as well. Mike was the head of human resources at Northwest Airlines and an executive vice president of Human Resources at Delta before retiring in 2010.
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This is not a team brought in to "shut things down." It's there to built things up. This kind of horsepower does not leave a Delta job, uproot families and move from Atlanta / Paris to MN unless they know it is long term career advancement. There is an old management expression: "When you shine like a diamond in a goats a**, don't move" for a high risk or dead end job
Wilbur is a Naval Academy graduate, has a MBA, and commanded the largest air wing in the Navy. Neuenschwander is a MBA, CPA, "integration specialist" who was heavily involved in the NWA/Delta merger. Becker is returning to HR where he has also has expertise in "integration"
They are a HQ Delta team there to build Pinnacle (still awaiting name change) way beyond 80+ airplanes and will slowly erase separate identities between Delta and its "primary" regional.