• Source: Stephen Wolf

      • Stephen M. Wolf (born 1941) is an American executive who has served as the Chairman of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company since March 2004. He has also been the Managing Partner of Alpilles, LLC, since April 1, 2003. In April 2009, he became the Chairman of Trilantic Capital Partners, formerly known as Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking.


      Career


      Stephen M. Wolf's aviation career began in 1966 with American Airlines, where he quickly rose to the position of Vice President of the Western Division. In 1981, he joined Pan American World Airways as Senior Vice President. The following year, he became President and Chief Operating Officer of Continental Airlines.
      In 1984, Wolf was appointed President and CEO of Republic Airlines (1979–1986), a position he held until 1986, when he orchestrated the company's merger with Northwest Airlines. Following the merger, he became Chairman and CEO of Tiger International Inc. and Flying Tiger Line, where he oversaw the sale of the company to Federal Express.
      In 1987, Stephen Wolf left Flying Tiger to lead Allegis Corporation, the former parent company of United Airlines.
      Wolf currently serves on the boards of directors of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Philip Morris International, and Chrysler Group, LLC, and is an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution.
      From 1987 to July 1994, Wolf was the Chairman and CEO of UAL Corporation and United Airlines. He later served as a senior advisor to Lazard Frères until its employees purchased the firm. Wolf was appointed CEO of US Airways on January 16, 1996, a position he held until his resignation on November 18, 1998. During his tenure, he rebranded US Airways from US Air and oversaw an order for up to 400 Airbus A320-series narrow-body aircraft, with 120 firm orders at the time. The order was one of the largest bulk aircraft requests in history.
      Wolf succeeded Rakesh Gangwal on November 27, 2001, as Chief Executive Officer of US Airways, after having passed the chairman position to Gangwal three years earlier.
      Wolf holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from San Francisco State University.


      = Personal Life

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      Wolf is a native of California, where he attended high school in Oakland and college at San Francisco State University. He married Delores, a former American Airlines executive, in 1986. The couple lived in Chicago during his chairmanship of United Airlines. They later built a stone and brick house with an 1,800-bottle wine cellar on farmland in McLean, Virginia. In 2013, they purchased a Moroccan-style, 242 square meter (2,600 square foot) condominium in the Dunster House complex at 360 S. Ocean Blvd. in Palm Beach, Florida.
      Wolf is also an avid collector of Jaguar automobiles.
      He has donated more than $16,000 to Republican causes since 1990, supporting political campaigns for figures such as John McCain, Thomas M. Davis, Sue Lowden, Lauch Faircloth, Linda Lingle, Josh Mandel, Lynn Morley Martin, Michael Castle, and John Warner.


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