Stephen Wolf
FameRank: 4

"Stephen M. Wolf" (born 1941) assumed his current position as chairman of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company in March 2004. He has been the managing partner of Alpilles, LLC, since April 1, 2003. In April 2009 he became chairman of Trilantic Capital Partners, which was previously Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking. Before becoming managing partner of Alpilles, Mr. Wolf was chairman of US Airways. Wolf was chairman and chief executive officer of US Airways from January 16, 1996 until November 18, 1998, when he turned over his chief executive officer title to another executive. Wolf was responsible for the company's rebranding to US Airways from it's previous identity, USAir. During Wolf's tenure, US Airways also placed an order for up to 400 Airbus A320-series narrow body aircraft, with 120 firm orders at the time of the order signing; at the time, the order was regarded as the largest bulk aircraft request in history. Prior to joining US Airways, Wolf had served since 1994 as senior advisor to Lazard Frères. From 1987 until it was purchased by its employees in July 1994 he was chairman and chief executive officer of UAL Corporation and United Airlines, Inc.

More Stephen Wolf on Wikipedia.

With this important decision, US Airways is taking a huge step towards building its position as a leading world airline and to remain globally competitive.

We are committed to one another. If someone else comes along, we'll have to respond in appropriate fashion. But we think it's a very, very good fit.

The competitive environment underscores the necessity of US Airways becoming part of a larger network and thus we remain fully focused on our merger with United Airlines.

We're clean from a Justice (Department) perspective.

There's a lot of cheering (from other employees) going on for the teams. It's also a family event.