Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> April 27, 1999

John F. Kelly – Alaska Air Group Inc (alk)

JOHN F. KELLY is President and Chief Executive Officer of Frenkel & Company, Inc., an independent insurance brokerage since 1878. Business Insurance Management ranks Frenkel in its top 35 United States insurance brokerage firms, as providers of commercial insurance including environmental, marine, and personal lines, as well as life and benefit planning insurance and services. Under Mr. Kelly's stewardship the firm has expanded its client base worldwide through additional officers in New Jersey and California. Mr. Kelly purchased Frenkel & Company with a partner, Robert E. Shunk, in January 2001, from the Frenkel & Company Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Mr. Kelly earned a BS Finance degree from Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York in 1977 and a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter Designation the following year. Mr. Kelly is a past President of the New York Chapter of C.P.C.U. (1991). He is an Honorary Board Member of the New Jersey Chapter of Rainbows for All God's Children, a non-profit grief support group for children and young adults. Mr. Kelly serves on the Insurance Executive Board of Atlantic HealthCare Systems in Roseland, New Jersey, and as a member of the advisory of Mountainside Hospital in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Profile
TWST: Could we begin by giving us a brief overview of Alaska Air Group

your history, services, customers those kinds of things please?

Mr. Kelly: Alaska Air Group encompasses two main