American Airlines Group Inc. announced the election of Howard Ungerleider, 55, to its board of directors. Ungerleider will serve on the board?s Audit Committee and Compensation Committee. Ungerleider is currently an operating advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.

Previously, he served as president and CFO of Dow Inc., where he was a member of Dow?s senior executive committee, which set the strategic direction, established corporate policy, and managed governance and enterprise-level decisions for the business. He retired from Dow in January 2024 after more than 30 years with the company. Ungerleider joined the Dow Chemical Company in 1990 and over the course of his career held a variety of senior leadership roles across several divisions and geographies.

This includes serving as executive vice president of Dow's Advanced Materials Division, president of its Performance Plastics Division, vice president of Investor Relations and North American commercial vice president for Basic Plastics. He was named CFO in 2014, vice chairman in 2015 and president in 2018. From 2017 to 2019, he served as CFO of DowDuPont.

Ungerleider sits on the board of Kyndryl Holdings Inc. He holds a bachelor?s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles.