Delta Air Lines Names Arthur E. Johnson to Board of Directors

Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) today announced the election of Arthur E. Johnson of Lockheed Martin Corp. to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. “Arthur Johnson brings to Delta’s Board of Directors insight and deep experience in corporate affairs, which will serve the Board well,” said Gerald Grinstein, Delta’s chief executive officer.

“I am pleased to be joining Delta’s Board, and I look forward to working with Jerry and his team,” Johnson commented on his election.

Johnson is the senior vice president of corporate strategic development at Lockheed Martin Corp., based in Bethesda, Md. Reporting directly to Lockheed Martin’s chairman and CEO, he is responsible for corporate and business strategy development, strategic partnerships and joint ventures. After Sept. 11, 2001, he was assigned as the corporation’s focal point for its Homeland Security activities.

He has held a number of executive positions at Lockheed Martin since joining the company in January 1996, including president and chief operating officer of the information and services sector; president of the systems integration group; and president of the federal systems group.

Before coming to Lockheed Martin, Johnson served as group vice president of Loral Federal Systems Group. Prior to that, he spent 25 years with the IBM Corporation in a number of technical and executive management positions, including president of the Federal Systems Company. In that position, he had profit and loss responsibility covering avionics integration, defense electronic systems, postal information systems, air traffic management systems, submarine combat systems, federal IT systems and services and command, control, communications and intelligence.

Johnson graduated from Morehouse College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968. As a summer job while at Morehouse, he worked for Delta at the then-Atlanta International Airport in aircraft refueling operations. He participated in the University of California at Los Angeles’ modern engineering program in 1984, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s foreign policy seminar in 1987 and Harvard Business School’s advanced management program in 1990.

Johnson serves on the board of directors of AGL Resources, Inc. and IKON Office Solutions, Inc

March 23, 2005   Posted in: Airlines & Railways