![]() Southwest is tremendously grateful for his 14 years of service, and the Company wishes him the best on his new endeavor.Ĭhris Johnson, who was promoted to Vice President Ground Operations in February, will immediately assume responsibility for all of Ground Operations and Provisioning, and will report directly to Senior Vice President Operations & Hospitality, Steve Goldberg. Roach will continue to report to Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Ryan Green.Īnthony Gregory, former Vice President Ground Operations, has accepted a new leadership position outside of Southwest. Roach's department will also have an increased focus on partnering with operating Teams to enhance the cabin experience and in airports, building out more self-service for Customers, and managing the enterprise Customer portfolio and Customer Design Team forum. Roach's focus will be strengthening efforts to improve Customer Satisfaction, mitigating Customer complaints, and addressing Customers' needs proactively. In February 2021, Customer Relations/Rapid Rewards began reporting to Tony Roach, and Tony's promotion, effective immediately, is indicative of the significant role that Customer Experience has come to play at Southwest Airlines, coupled with the critical role that Customer Relations has played for Southwest for more than 40 years. Managing Director Tony Roach is promoted to Vice President Customer Experience & Customer Relations. The carrier also announced Leadership changes in Operational and Commercial Departments. "Linda is an innovative Leader who challenges Southwest to continually evolve how we engage and champion our Employees and Communities, and she consistently delivers on our Southwest Purpose, to connect People to what's important in their lives with friendly, reliable and low-cost air travel," said Bob Jordan, EVP and incoming CEO. She guided the Company's response effort at the Enterprise level to the COVID-19 pandemic and the death of the Company's beloved Founder Herb Kelleher. In recent years, she has helped build enterprise change agility, continued the strategic implementation of programming and incentives aimed at nurturing our Corporate Culture, led Enterprise efforts to develop and implement an Employee Experience roadmap, championed the enterprise social business strategy, devised relevant programming for Employee engagement, and evolved multi-channel communications support system for multiple stakeholders internally and externally. Rutherford is approaching 30 years at Southwest after joining the Company in 1992. Reporting to Rutherford in her new role will be Vice President and Chief People Officer Julie Weber, Managing Director Communications & Outreach Laurie Barnett, Managing Director Culture & Engagement Whitney Eichinger, Vice President Southwest Airlines University Elizabeth Bryant, and Director DE&I Raquel Daniels. She will continue to oversee Communications & Outreach and Culture & Engagement, while adding Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DE&I), People, and Southwest Airlines University to her responsibilities. Rutherford will report directly to Jordan and will continue to serve as the Chief Communications Officer for the Company. This news follows last week's announcement of Leadership Plans for 2022. Rutherford will succeed Bob Jordan in what was the Executive Vice President Corporate Services role, as he pivots to making the CEO transition as smooth as possible and spending time with Employees across the Company. ![]() DALLAS, J/PRNewswire/ - Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) today announced the promotion of Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer Linda Rutherford to Executive Vice President People & Communications, effective immediately.
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