Daniel K. Elwell has served as a director of Alaska Air Group since 2021, where he chairs the Safety Committee and is a member of the Innovation Committee. He is president of Elwell & Associates LLC, an aviation consulting firm, and a former senior U.S. aviation regulator and military and commercial pilot.
Mr. Elwell served as Deputy and Acting Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from 2017 to 2020, where he was responsible for the safety and efficiency of the largest aerospace system in the world and oversaw the FAA's multibillion-dollar NextGen air traffic control modernization program. Earlier he was senior vice president for safety, security and operations at Airlines for America (A4A), a trade association, from 2013 to 2015, and vice president of the Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc. from 2008 to 2013.
Mr. Elwell has held a number of advisory and board roles in the aviation and aerospace sector. From 2021 to 2024 he served on the advisory board of Dedrone Holdings, Inc., an airspace security company, and from 2022 to 2024 on the board of PARSEC Acquisition, a space, transportation and advanced space special purpose acquisition company. He was appointed in 2021 to the advisory board of Asylon, Inc., a drone security company. He holds a BS from the U.S. Air Force Academy.