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The People Behind JET LINX

Jet Linx Management Company

Dennis Walker, Chairman
dwalker@jetlinx.com

Before founding JET LINX Aviation, Denny was a founder, Executive Vice President and board member of MemberWorks Incorporated, which later changed its name to Vertrue Incorporated. In September of 2002 Denny resigned from his position at MemberWorks to focus his energy on the further development of JET LINX.

Denny Carreker, Vice Chairman and CEO
jcarrekerjr@jetlinx.com

Denny Carreker was founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Carreker Corporation, a company that specialized in payment systems, revenue enhancement, e-commerce, technology strategy, fraud mitigation, and customer relationship management to financial institutions, including 25 of the largest banks in the U.S. and more than 250 clients on five continents. After 29 years, Carreker Corporation was acquired by CheckFree in April 2007.

Jamie Walker, President
jwalker@jetlinx.com

Jamie is responsible for executing the sales, marketing and business development for the Company. The combination of these daily efforts contribute to the continued success of the Company’s business plan. Prior to joining JET LINX, Jamie was a Vice President of Sales & Marketing for New World Sales, Inc., based in New York, NY and a residential redeveloper in lower Manhattan.

Jet Linx Aviation

Mark Matthes, President and COO
mmatthes@jetlinx.com

Mark was the Executive Vice President and COO of Duncan Aviation from 1997 to 2008. Duncan Aviation is an aircraft maintenance and modification company employing 2000 people in Lincoln, NE, Battle Creek, MI and nineteen satellite locations. Prior to joining Duncan Aviation, Mark was the Senior Vice President and Director of Operations for FirstTier Financial, a Nebraska-based bank. He has served on several community boards in Lincoln and Omaha. He attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Banking School.

Kari Johnson, Director of Operations
kjohnson@jetlinx.com

Kari is a former airline captain, flight instructor, check airman and manager of flight training. He has logged over 20,000 flight hours in scheduled airliners for Eastern Airlines, Japan Airlines and Eva Air, in addition to military and corporate aircraft. Kari is type rated in the G-IV, DC-9, B-727, B-747, and the MD-11. As a Naval Aviator and squadron commander, he flew the A-6 Intruder during and after the Vietnam conflict and retired in 1987 as Colonel, USMC-R. During his aviation career he has held management assignments in FAR 121, FAR 91 and FAR 135 operations, including the Director of Operations for AMI Jet Charter, the parent company of TAG Aviation U.S., where he managed over 150 aircraft, 100 flight attendants and up to 500 pilots.

Maynard Smith, Assistant Director of Operations and System Chief Pilot
msmith@jetlinx.com

Maynard was with SkyWest Airlines as a Line Check Airmen on the EMB-120 where he was in charge of conducting new-hire initial operating experience as well as conducting annual line checks on EMB-120 flight crews. He was then hired by United Airlines and flew as a B-727 Flight Engineer and served as an Airbus A-319/320 First Officer. As Director of Operations for JET LINX he is responsible for aircraft compliance, flight crews and scheduling. Maynard is the main point of contact for the FAA and is responsible for insuring all JET LINX operations are compliant with the Federal Aviation Regulations for Part 91 and Part 135 operations.

Anthony Boatwright, Director of Maintenance
tboatwright@jetlinx.com

Tony began his career at Duncan Aviation. During his employment at Duncan he attended several Flight Safety training schools including Falcon, Cessna and Hawker until finally earning the Lead Mechanic position specializing in Cessna 500 through 650 and Hawker 125 aircraft. Tony then accepted the position as Lead Mechanic at Garrett Aviation. At Garrett he inspected and maintained aircraft ranging from the smallest Cessna to largest commercial airliners. As the Director of Maintenance, Tony is now responsible for the inspection and maintenance of the company’s fleet of aircraft and maintaining all technical data for the aircraft. Above all, he is responsible for and strives to make our aircraft the safest in the industry.

Bruce Tuttle, Director of Safety
btuttle@jetlinx.com

Bruce spent his last 20 years at ConAgra where he retired as their Chief Pilot. His responsibilities as the Chief Pilot for ConAgra were to oversee the operations of ConAgra’s corporate flight department which included seven jets, eighteen pilots, dispatch, scheduling, maintaining training records and the development of their Standard Operating Procedures. Bruce has logged nearly 15,000 total hours in the cockpit and is now responsible for all aviation safety, training and standardization at Jet Linx Aviation.