Clive Beddoe

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Clive Beddoe (born 1947) is a founding shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of WestJet Airlines. As a pilot himself, it was his interest in aircraft that helped form WestJet. Clive first started flying gliders at Epsom College in England during his teenage years. While talking to a friend one day, he decided to move to Canada on a whim to start a job at a Surveyors Company, further on creating his own commercial development company called Hanover Management, a named based on Hanover Square, London a location where he once worked. He also owns a small manufacturing company. His holdings in Westjet are estimated at around 70 million.

WestJet Airlines, founded in 1996, is publicly traded in the TSX and is Canada's leading low fare airline now serving most major Canadian cities, with scheduled service to many sun destinations in the United States of America, as well as Nassau, Bahamas.

Back in 2000, WestJet's founders, Clive Beddoe, Mark Hill, Tim Morgan and Donald Bell were honoured as 'The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year' for Canada.

On Tuesday, July 24, 2007, Beddoe announced that effective September 4, 2007, he will relinquish his duties as chief executive officer, passing the torch to Sean Durfy, WestJet's current president.