Robert Milton

Robert Milton

Robert Milton is an experienced independent director with wide-ranging experience in the aviation industry. Mr. Milton currently is the lead director of Air Lease Corporation. Mr. Milton served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ACE Aviation Holdings, Inc., a holding company for Air Canada and other aviation interests (“ACE”) from 2004 to 2012, and served as Chairman of Air Canada from 2004 until 2007. Mr. Milton served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Air Canada from 1999 until 2004, and prior to that served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Air Canada. Mr. Milton is the former non-executive chairman of United Continental Holdings, Inc. and also is a former director of Breeze Aviation Group, Inc. (the holding company of Breeze Airways), Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, US Airways, Inc., AirAsia Bhd and TAP Portugal. Mr. Milton is a trustee of the Georgia Tech Foundation and a Director (Emeritus) of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, and previously served as Chair of the International Air Transport Association’s Board of Governors. Mr. Milton has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology.