The Board of Directors

Úlfar Steindórsson

Chairman

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Úlfar Steindórsson is CEO and Chairman of Toyota in Iceland ehf. and Jú ehf. He was CEO of Primex ehf. in Siglufjörður from 2002 to 2004 and CEO of the New Business Venture Fund from 1999 to 2002. Úlfar is Chairman of the Board of Bílaútleigan ehf., Okkar bílaleiga ehf., Motormax and TK bílar ehf. He is Board member of Toyota in Iceland ehf., Fagkaup ehf., UK fjárfestingar ehf., Skorri ehf., Keila ehf. and My Car ehf. and a vice board member of Bláa lónið ehf. Úlfar holds a Cand. Oecon. degree from the University of Iceland and an MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He joined the Board of Icelandair Group on 15 September 2010.

Svafa Grönfeldt

Vice Chairman

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Svafa Grönfeldt is a Professor of Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a founding member of MIT's newest innovation accelerator DesignX focused on the design and development of technologyand service-based ventures created at MIT. Svafa is the co-founder of The MET fund, a Cambridge based seed investment fund. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Össur since 2008 and Origo since 2019. Previous positions include executive leadership positions at two global life science companies where she served as Chief Organizational Development Officer of Alvogen and Deputy to the CEO of Actavis Group. Her executive career has been focused on organizational design for high growth companies, strategy implementation, service process design for operational improvement and performance tracking. She is a former President of Reykjavik University. Svafa holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics where she examined the impact of customer-oriented behaviours and service design on business outcomes. She joined the Board of Icelandair Group on 8 March 2019.

Guðmundur Hafsteinsson

Board Member

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Guðmundur Hafsteinsson is an investor and entrepreneur and previously lead product development for Google Assistant at Google. He joined Google in 2014 subsequent to the merger of Google and Emu, a chat-based virtual assistant start-up he founded in 2012. Prior to the founding of Emu, he was VP Product at Siri, and stayed on after the acquisition by Apple through the launch of Siri on iPhone 4S. Prior to Siri/Apple, Guðmundur was a Senior Product Manager at Google, where he managed the initial launches of Google Maps for mobiles and Google Voice Search. Guðmundur holds an MBA degree from MIT and a BSc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Iceland. He joined the Board of Icelandair Group on 8 March 2018.

John F. Thomas

Board Member

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John F. Thomas is owner and CEO of Waltzing Matilda Aviation LLC, a jet charter and aircraft management company based in Boston that he founded in 2008. In year 2016-2017, Mr. Thomas was Group Executive at Virgin Australia Airlines where he led a financial turnaround as CEO of a AU$ 4.0bn (appr. USD 3bn) full service carrier with over 6,000 employees and 125 aircraft, and from 1990-2016 he was with the global strategy consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting, as a Managing Director/Senior Partner from 1993 and created and led the Global Aviation Practice for over 16 years. Additionally he is a Senior Advisor to the management consultancy McKinsey & Co., the aviation infrastructure firm Nieuport Aviation Infrastructure Partners GP and the tourism technology firm Plusgrade. He also sits on the Board of SkyService Inc. the largest corporate aviation provider in Canada where he also Chairs its Health and Safety committee. He continues to provide advisory work to the global airline industry. Mr. Thomas holds an MBA degree from Macquarie University Graduate School of Business (which included 9 months at the MBA program at INSEAD) and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales. He joined the Board of Icelandair Group on 6 March 2020.

Nina Jonsson

Board Member

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Nina Jonsson is currently a Senior Advisor at aviation consultancy Plane View Partners and a board member at aviation technology firm FLYHT. Between 2015 and 2017, she held the role of Senior Vice President Group Fleet at Air France-KLM Group where she was responsible for group-wide fleet strategy, aircraft sourcing, leasing and sales. Previously, Ms. Jonsson held a number of other executive positions within the aviation industry including Fleet Management Officer at the Bristow Group (2012-15), Director Fleet Planning at United Airlines (2006-2011) and Director Fleet Management at US Airways (2002-2005). Ms. Jonsson holds an MBA degree from Rensselaer Polytechic Institute and a B.Sc. degree in Air Transport Management from the University of New Haven. She joined the Board of Icelandair Group on 6 March 2020.