JEFFREY G. KATZ

Jeffrey G. Katz, 53, who is served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Orbitz, Inc., an online travel company. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Katz was President and Chief Executive Officer of Swissair, a publicly held airline. From 1980 to 1997, he served in a variety of roles at American Airlines, a publicly held airline, including Vice President of American Airlines and President of the Computerized Reservation System Division of SABRE. Mr. Katz serves on the board of directors of Sojern, Inc.,

Jeff Katz, who used to be an exec at American Airlines, moved to head of the computer reservation division at Sabre, became CEO of SwissAir, then founded and ran Orbitz. Hell of an accomplished guy. Jeffrey Katz was most recently chairman of the board and CEO of Orbitz, the travel website founded by Mr. Katz, American, Continental, Delta, Northwest and United airlines. Known as a company that was innovative with technology and oriented towards customer care, Orbitz grew quickly in scale to be among the top 3 online travel sites with over $4B in gross travel sales.

He is also a member of the board of directors of Northwest Airlines, and friendster.com an internet startup based in Mountain View, California. Cendant Corp. and Orbitz today reached a definitive agreement for Cendant to buy all the shares of Orbitz for $27.50 per share in cash or $1.25 billion. Jeff Katz, Orbitz chairman, president and CEO, will leave the leadership of the unit in the hands of the existing senior management team after a transition period before year-end.

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