George Murnane III

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George Murnane III is a former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Mesa Air Group. Mr. Murnane was appointed Executive Vice President of the Company effective December 2001 and Chief Financial Officer in January 2003, and was fired in November 2007. Murnane served as a director of Mesa from June 1999 until October 2003. From 1996 to December 2001, Murnane was a Director and Executive Vice President of International Airline Support Group, Inc., a redistributor of aftermarket commercial aircraft spare parts and lessor and trader of commercial aircraft and engines, most recently as its Chief Operating Officer. From 1995 to 1996, Murnane served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Atlas Air, an air cargo company. From 1986 to 1996, he was an investment banker with the New York investment banking firm of Merrill Lynch, most recently as a Director in the firm’s Transportation Group.

Murnane is also a Member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Finance, W. P. Carey School of Business, of Arizona State University.

In September 2007, Murnane was placed on leave from the airline after allegations surfaced that he had deleted data related to a lawsuit against Mesa brought by Hawaiian Airlines. Mesa claimed that Murnane had been attempting to remove pornographic material from his computers. Following a court ruling that Murnane had intentionally and in bad faith deleted the evidence, the airline announced that he had been fired on November 5, 2007.^[1]