Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> November 2, 1998
SAM ADDOMS is the President and CEO of Frontier Airlines, Inc. He
brought 34 years of management experience to Frontier, including past
positions as president and vice president-finance of Monfort of
Colorado, president of Denver National Bank and vice president of the
former Continental Illinois National Bank of Chicago. Before helping to
found Frontier in 1994, he spent the eight previous years working with a
variety of over 15 early-stage or turnaround companies as an officer,
director or consultant. In addition to serving on Frontier's board, he
is currently a director of Communications World, Englewood, Colo., and
of Walsh Environmental, Boulder, Colo. Mr. Addoms holds a B.A. degree
with a major in English Literature from Wesleyan University in
Middletown, Conn. He currently resides in the Denver area with his wife.
They have three children and are the grandparents of six. Profile
Mr. Addoms: Frontier started in 1994. It started its flying operations
in that year, July, to be specific. So we are now embarking on
