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Continental Airlines. In 2004 as a director of KLM, he helped negotiate their merger with Air France. Prior to the September 11 attacks and the subsequent fallout on the airline industry, Northwest's market capitalization reached $ 6 billion, providing investors with handsome returns on their $ 300 million initial equity investment. He served as chairman or co-chairman of Northwest from 1991 to 2007.
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acquired control. During his tenure there, market capitalization increased from $ 2 billion to $ 20 billion, an IRR of 58 percent, primarily by expanding hotel and theme park assets while increasing prices. Among his accomplishments were increasing hotel rooms from 4,000 in 1985 to 18,000 rooms in
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Northwest Airlines in 1989. With partner KLM, Northwest Airlines created code-sharing which allowed passengers to fly on several airlines on a single ticket thus creating airline alliances that now permeate the industry. SkyTeam, Oneworld and Star Alliance now cover the
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in 1974, as executive vice president for finance, strategy and development. While there, Marriott's market capitalization increased from $ 200 million in 1974 to $ 3.6 billion in 1987 for a 24 percent IRR. Among his accomplishments were creating and developing the
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Christoper. He is married to Jane Booke, a fashion designer. They live in Los Angeles.
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