Thomas F. O'Toole
Age: 66
Director since: 2015
Term expires in 2025
Committee Memberships:
• Audit
• Nominating and Governance
Summary: Mr. O’Toole brings to our Board his strong experience in revenue strategy, customer strategy, data-driven business and digital commerce.
Since 2023, Mr. O’Toole has been Associate Dean, Executive Programs and Clinical Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. From 2020 to 2023, Mr. O'Toole was Associate Dean, Executive Education and Clinical Professor of Marketing at Kellogg. From 2018 to 2020, Mr. O’Toole was the Executive Director of the Program for Data Analytics and Clinical Professor of Marketing at Kellogg. From 2016 to 2018, he was Senior Fellow and Clinical Professor of Marketing at Kellogg.
He is the principal of O’Toole Associates, LLC, through which he serves as a Senior Advisor with McKinsey & Co., a global management consulting firm.
Until his retirement in late 2016, Mr. O’Toole was Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of United Airlines and President, MileagePlus of United Continental Holdings, Inc., a global air carrier. He joined United in 2010 as Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President and held positions with United as Senior Vice President, Marketing and Loyalty and President, MileagePlus from 2012 to 2014, Chief Operating Officer, MileagePlus from 2010 to 2012, and Chief Marketing Officer in 2010.
Before joining United, Mr. O’Toole held leadership roles for over 13 years with Hyatt Hotels Corporation, including as Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Information Officer. He served on the Boards of Directors of LSC Communications, Inc., a print, print-related services and office products company, from 2016 to 2021, and Extended Stay America Inc., a hotel owner and operator, from 2017 to 2021. He has served as a Director of IPL and WPL since 2015.
Skills and Qualifications: strategic leadership; financial acumen/literacy; operations; customer perspective; technology systems.