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Jaime E. Pous has served as our Chief Financial Officer since 2021. He previously served as our interim Chief Financial Officer from June 2020, he joined in 2013 as our General Counsel and served as our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Affairs Senior Vice President from 2016 to 2020. Additionally, he served as secretary of our board of directors from 2018 to 2022 and as secretary of our audit and corporate governance committee from 2013 to 2022. Prior to joining us, he worked at Grupo Televisa, where he was legal director from 1999 to 2012. Mr. Pous holds a Law Degree (Licenciatura en Derecho) from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico and an LL.M. from The University of Texas at Austin, School of Law.

Jimmy Maurice Zadigue has served as our Senior Corporate Audit Services and Risk Assessment Director (formerly Internal Audit Director) since 2020. He previously served as our Internal Audit Director from 2011 to 2019. Mr. Zadigue worked as the internal audit director of Sempra Infrastructure Mexico (IEnova), the director of operations, finance and administration at Swarovski in Mexico and as the director of finance and business control at Bombardier North America. Mr. Zadigue is also a Chartered Public Accountant in Canada and a Certified Internal Auditor. Mr. Zadigue holds a B.B.A. from HEC-Montreal and a M.S. in Accounting Sciences from the Universite du Quebec.

John A. Slowik has served as a member of our board of directors and as a member of our audit committee since 2012. Prior to joining our board, Mr. Slowik has had over three decades of experience in the air transportation and commercial aerospace sectors as a banker at Citi (and its predecessors) and Credit Suisse, where he managed its America's Airline Industry investment banking practice. Mr. Slowik's experience includes corporate and investment banking, where his activities involved financial risk assessment, public and private market capital raising, highly structured debt issuance, aircraft leasing, principal investment, mergers and acquisitions advisory work and restructuring troubled situations in and out of court. His cross-cultural experiences include managing teams of bankers and professionals while executing various transactions for clients in Central and South America, North America, Western Europe, the Middle-East and the Asia and Pacific regions. Mr. Slowik is also a member of the board of directors and chairman of Turbine USA LLC, private commercial jet engine leasing company operating out of Ireland and the United States, respectively. Mr. Slowik serves as a senior advisor to volofin Capital Management Ltd., a specialty finance company focused on delivering innovative financing solutions for the commercial aviation market. He is a licensed, but now inactive private pilot. Mr. Slowik has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Marquette University and a M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Brian Hanna Franke has served as a member of our board of directors since 2010 and as Chairman of our board of directors since 2020. He is currently a principal specializing in aviation investments with Indigo Partners LLC, a private equity firm based in the United States. Mr. Franke is also a member of the board of directors of Frontier Airlines, JetSMART Airlines, APiJET and Cebu Pacific Airlines. He previously served on the board of directors of Tiger Airways Holdings (Singapore) from 2008 to 2010 and Tiger Airways Australia from 2009 to 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Franke was vice president of Franke & Company Inc., a boutique private equity firm focused on small and medium enterprises investments. He was also a director in marketing for Anderson Company, a U.S. real estate developer, from 1989 to 1992 and a marketing manager for United Brands Inc., a U.S. distribution and licensing company for consumer goods, from 1987 to 1989. Mr. Franke holds a B.S. in Business from the University of Arizona and a M.A. in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Stanley Lorin Pace has served as a member of our board of directors since 2017. He is a partner at Bain & Company where he has served as a member and chair of most of its key governance board of directors. Mr. Pace was the founder of the transformation and airline practices at Bain & Company and has led many of its largest and most successful relationships and transformations. He also serves as a member of the board at Parkway Construction. Mr. Pace served as the chief executive officer of ATA from 1996 to 1997, at that time, ATA was the largest charter airline in the world. Mr. Pace holds a B.A. in Accounting and Finance from University of Utah -BYU, where he graduated as valedictorian, and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with high distinction.

Jose Luis Suarez Duran has served as our Chief Operating Officer since 2015. He joined Volaris in 2006 as Sales Director. In 2012, he served as Retail and Customer Director, where he supervised the airport operations, ramp management, flight attendants and customer solutions. Prior to joining us, Mr. Suarez worked at Sabre Holdings from 1996 to 2006. Mr. Suarez holds a licenciatura in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana, a Degree in Executive Management from IPADE Business School, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering and a M.B.A. from the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Andrew Sammons Broderick has served as a member of our board of directors since 2023, Mr. Broderick, is a Managing Director of Indigo Partners LLC, a private equity fund focused on air transportation, which he joined in July 2008. He has served on the board of directors of Frontier Airlines Holdings, Inc., an airline based in the United States, since January 2018; JetSMART Airlines SpA, an airline based in Chile, since September 2018; Wizz Air Holdings Plc, an airline based in Europe, since April 2019; and APiJET, LLC, a software company focused on providing real-time cost saving analytics to airlines, since November 2020; and CycloKinetics, Inc. (formerly CleanJoule) since May 2023, a sustainable aviation fuel development company. Additionally, Mr. Broderick serves on various committees of these companies, including finance, sustainability and culture, safety and security, and compensation committees. Prior to joining Indigo, Mr. Broderick was employed at a macroeconomic hedge fund and a stock-option valuation firm. Mr. Broderick holds a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Spanish from Arizona State University and a Masters of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Monica Aspe Bernal has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2020, and is a member of our corporate governance committee. She is the Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Mexico and serves in the boards of Nemak and Banco Nacional de Mexico S.A. She previously was Mexico's Ambassador to the OECD. She served as Vice-Minister in the former of Communications of the Ministry of Communications and Transportation. Ms. Aspe holds a B.A. in Political Science from Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico and a M.A. in Political Science from Columbia University.

Holger Blankenstein has served as our Executive Vice President Airline Commercial and Operations since 2018, in charge of our commercial, digital, operations, customer service and maintenance areas. Prior to his current role, Blankenstein served as Chief Commercial Officer from 2009 to 2017, leading the areas of sales, marketing, planning, itineraries, revenue management and cargo and leading the IT department. Blankenstein has been with us since our founding in 2005 and was part of the team that took us public in 2013. Before 2005, he was Director of Strategic Development at TACA International Airlines in El Salvador, from 2003 to 2005, where he led many key projects such as the integrated airline systems migration, TACA's maintenance business growth strategy and the business plan for Volaris. He began his career as a consultant for Bain & Company in 1998 in the Munich office. Blankenstein transferred to the Sydney office in 2000. He was involved with assignments in financial services, automotive and retail industries. Blankenstein holds a B.S. in Business and Economics from Goethe University and a M.B.A. from the University of Iowa.

William Dean Donovan has served on our board of directors since 2010 first as an alternate director and then as a full director starting in 2017. In 2009, Mr. Donovan joined the board of Prophet Brand Strategy, a marketing consultancy. At Prophet, he sits on the compensation committee and chaired the capital committee, which provided board oversight for the recapitalization of the company. He served on the board of the Metropolitan Bank from 2008 to 2015, where he chaired the compensation committee. He co-founded Volaris in 2005. Mr. Donovan worked with Bain & Company from 1989 to 2003. He was Managing Director of Bain Africa from 1999 to 2002, worked with aerospace clients, and led Bain's aviation practice and auto practice at various times. Mr. Donovan co-founded Casino Marketing Alliance, a provider of analytics services to the casino industry. Mr. Donovan has served as COO of Nimblefish Technologies, a specialized micromarketing agency and as CEO of SearchForce, a paid search workflow and optimization platform. Mr. Donovan currently leads DiamondStream Partners, an investment firm that specializes in aviation and aerospace technology. In this role, he assists companies focused on mid-mile freight, electric and hybrid electric propulsion, aircraft maintenance, revenue management, fleet management, irregular operations, unmanned aircraft, aerial inspection, drones, and the energy transition. He sits on the board or advises the following aviation and aerospace companies GPMS, Elroy Air, Verdego Aero, Ampaire, Wingtra, Stellar Labs, SwissDrones, and Volantio. He has previously served as Chairman and on the compensation committee of Stellar Labs. He is a frequent speaker on the future of aviation and aerospace. Mr. Donovan holds a B.A. in Rhetoric and Economics from the University of California Berkeley, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude, and a M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Marco Andres Baldocchi Kriete has served as a member of our board of directors since 2020, previously serving as an interim director since July 2019. Previously serving as our alternate director since 2010. Mr. Baldocchi currently serves as chief executive officer of Dollarcity, a high-growth retail company operating more than 600 locations in Central America, Colombia and Peru. Mr. Baldocchi was an independent director of Avianca Holdings, S.A. (formerly Avianca Taca Holdings, S.A.) from 2010 to 2014. He was a founding member of Transactel Inc. and a member of the board of directors of Banco Agricola from 2003 to 2007. He also serves on the boards of other aviation-related companies, such as Aeromantenimiento and Mobiliarie Latam in El Salvador and Guatemala. Mr. Baldocchi holds a master's degree in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor's degree in economics from Vanderbilt University.

Ricardo Maldonado Yanez has been member of our board of directors since 2018 and is also the chairman of our corporate governance committee since 2023. He is a partner at the law firm of Mijares, Angoitia, Cortes y Fuentes, S.C., since 1999. Mr. Maldonado has been involved in the aviation industry for two decades in different roles including a Secretary of the Board of Mexicana de Aviacion, board member of Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte (OMA), as well as counsel of the Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transportation in OMAs initial public offering and certain M&A transactions related to Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste (ASUR). Mr. Maldonado focuses his practice in M&A, securities and corporate governance matters, and is a member of the Board of ICA, one of Mexico's largest construction and engineering companies. Mr. Maldonado is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN). Mr. Maldonado recently attended the Chief Sustainability Officer Acceleration Program in collaboration with the BIVA Institute and the Social Value Institute in 2023. He has a master's degree (LL.M.) from the University of Chicago Law School, a corporate law diploma from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) and a lawyer's degree from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).

Jose Alejandro de Iturbide Gutierrez has served as our Chief Legal Officer since 2021 and as Secretary of our board of directors since April 2022. Mr. Iturbide served as General Counsel, Managing Director and Secretary of the board of directors of Grupo Financiero Citibanamex, having also served as General Counsel in Mexico at General Electric and Barclays Capital, among others. Mr. de Iturbide received and holds a Law Degree (Licenciatura en Derecho) from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and an LL.M. from the University of Notre Dame, School of Law (Program in London, England).

Guadalupe Phillips Margain has served as a member of our board of directors since 2020. She is the Chief Executive Officer of ICA Tenedora, S.A. de C.V., and also a member of the board of directors. She previously worked in Grupo Televisa where she was Vice-president of Finance and Risk and served in other positions. Ms. Phillips serves as member of the board of directors of several companies including Grupo Televisa, Grupo Axo, AUNA, Royal Holiday, Openbank and Club de Industriales. Ms. Phillips holds a Law Degree (Licenciatura en Derecho) from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, a M.A.L.D. (Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy) and a Ph.D. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Joaquin Alberto Palomo Deneke has served as a member of our board of directors since 2005 and as a member of our audit committee. He is also a member of the board of directors of Aeromantenimiento, CASSA and of Banco Agricola in El Salvador. Mr. Palomo has over two decades of experience in the financial air transportation and commercial aerospace sectors, assessing financial and operational risks, where he created and implemented the first organization for Grupo TACA. He also actively participated in the planning, purchasing negotiations, closing, organization and final merger of AVIATECA, Tan/Sahsa, TACA de Honduras, Nica, Lacsa, Islena de Inversiones, La Costena, Aeroperlas and Trans American Airlines to form Grupo TACA. Mr. Palomo has negotiated the financing of more than $1 billion in aircraft leases, sales and leasebacks. Mr. Palomo holds a B.S. in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University.

Mr. Jose Luis Fernandez Fernandez has been one of our independent directors since 2012 and is also the chairman of our audit committee. Mr. Fernandez is also a member of the audit committees of several companies including Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. de C.V. and Empresas Cablevision, S.A.B. de C.V., and he is also an alternate member of the board of directors of Arca Continental, S.A.B. de C.V. Mr. Fernandez is a non-managing limited partner of Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa. Mr. Fernandez holds a Public Accounting Degree (Licenciatura en Contaduria) from Universidad Iberoamericana and a certification issued by the Mexican Institute of Public Accountants. Mr. Fernandez participated in the Director Development Program offered by the Center of Excellence in Corporate Governance and the Mexican Stock Exchange, as well as in the Introduction to the Stock Market course offered by the same institution. In addition, he attended the Corporate Governance and Performance Program organized by the Yale University School of Business.

Enrique Javier Beltranena Mejicano is one of our co-founders and has served as our Chief Executive Officer since 2006 and as a member of our board of directors since 2016. He previously worked as Grupo TACA's chief operating officer, human resources and institutional relations vice president, cargo vice president and commercial director for Mexico and Central America. He also held the position of general director of Aviateca in Guatemala. Mr. Beltranena started his career in the aerospace industry in 1988. During the 1990s, he was responsible for the commercial merger of Aviateca, Sahsa, Nica, Lacsa and TACA Peru, which consolidated them into a single management entity called Grupo TACA. While at Grupo TACA, Mr. Beltranena also led the development of single operating codeshare and the negotiation of open skies bilateral agreements among each of the Central American countries and the United States, as well as the certification of the aeronautic authorities in Central America and Mexico and the compliance of the OACI regulation. In 2001, Mr. Beltranena led Grupo TACA's complete restructuring as its chief operating officer. In 2017, Mr. Beltranena participated in one of the biggest joint negotiations for the purchase of single aisle aircraft with Airbus. In 2009, Mr. Beltranena was awarded the Federico Bloch Award by the Latin American & Caribbean Air Transport Association. Mr. Beltranena was named to the Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of The Year Hall of Fame in 2012 after winning the 2011 Mexico Entrepreneur of the Year award. He also received the National Order of Merit (Knight's Badge) from the President of France in 2014. In 2017, he was president of the Board of Directors of IPADE-UP Business School. He is currently a member of the IATA Board of Governors, where he has been a keynote speaker at the Flight Safety Foundation in 2018. In 2022, he participated as a mentor of IATA Board of Governors, in order to incorporate the vision of the CEOs in safety within the aviation. In February 2022, he started as national counselor of the Coordinating Council of Women Entrepreneurs. Mr. Beltranena is widely recognized for his philanthropic activities, including supporting the construction of a Catholic church in Mexico City, advancing women's rights, and championing the protection of children and adolescents from human trafficking.