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Michael Silvestro recently became the longest-tenured CEO in the fractional private jet industry after having assumed his current role just before the financial crisis of 2008. While attending Notre Dame, he was one of two non-scholarship football players in his freshman class to make the team which later won the Cotton Bowl. After Notre Dame, Silvestro spent two decades inventing products and founding companies in the footwear and sporting goods industries. Looking for a new challenge, he joined fractional jet company, Flight Options, founded by his Notre Dame roommate Kenn Ricci, and oversaw sales. He turned sales around after the dot-com crash, building the company into the industry’s second-ranked player and leaving only after Ricci sold the company to Raytheon. When Ricci reacquired Flight Options in 2008, he returned to the company, this time as CEO. In 2013, Ricci acquired fractional pioneer Flexjet from Bombardier and Silvestro became CEO of Flexjet as well. He is deeply involved in youth and children’s charities and he and his wife, Mary Lynn, adopted two orphaned Rwandan children in addition to raising their own sons.

Elite Aviation is a Chief Executive Officer at Elite Aviation LLC and is based in Tickfaw, Louisiana.

Kim Day is a Chief Executive Officer at Denver International Airport and is based in Greater Denver Area. She has worked as Head:Aviation Planning at Jacobs Consultancy, Head:Aviation Planning at Worley Ecr Services Inc, and Executive Director at City of Los Angeles Department of Airports. Kim works or has worked as Manager:Aviation at Denver International Airport and MEMBER at American Institute of Architects. She studied at Cornell between 1972 and 1977, Haas School of Business, and University of California Berkeley between 1988 and 1990.