Richard H. Anderson became Chief Executive Officer of Delta Air Lines, effective Sept. 1, 2007.
Richard has nearly 20 years of aviation experience. He entered the industry in 1987 at Continental Airlines, where he served as staff Vice President and deputy general counsel. In 1990, he began a 14-year career at Northwest Airlines where he served as Vice President and deputy general counsel; Senior Vice President of Technical Operations and Airport Affairs; executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer; and as Chief Executive Officer from 2001 to 2004.
Richard joined Delta from UnitedHealth Group, where he was Executive Vice President and served as President of UnitedHealth’s Commercial Markets Group. He also serves as a Director of Cargill, Inc. and Medtronic, Inc.
A native of Galveston, Texas, Richard holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Houston and a Juris Doctor degree from South Texas College of Law.
March 15, 2010
Delta’s CEO talks PDX
I like to look at the way things evolve, how events turn out to be connected in ways you never expected.
Who would have thought, for instance, when I traveled to Portland in 2004 to help launch Northwest Airlines’ first nonstop flight from PDX to Narita International Airport in Tokyo as CEO of Northwest, that some six years later, I would be blogging about Delta Air Lines’ international flights out of Portland? First of all, that I would be doing something called “blogging,” and second, that my path would have led me to the role of CEO of Delta. Read more »