Bonny Simi
About
Bonny Simi is from San Francisco Bay Area. Bonny is currently President of Operations at Joby Aviation, located in Santa Cruz, California, United States. Bonny also works as Nominating and Governance Committee Member, Olympic Athlete at United States Olympic Committee, a job Bonny has held since Dec 2020. Another title Bonny currently holds is Independent Board Director at Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE: PEB). In Bonny's previous role as a Head of Air Operations and People at Joby Aviation, Bonny worked in until Feb 2024. Prior to joining Joby Aviation, Bonny was a President JetBlue Technology Ventures at JetBlue Airways and held the position of President JetBlue Technology Ventures. Prior to that, Bonny was a President and Founder at JetBlue Technology Ventures, based in San Francisco Bay Area from Jan 2016 to Dec 2020. Bonny started working as Board Director at RLHC | Red Lion Hotels Corporation in Apr 2017. From Sep 2011 to Dec 2015, Bonny was Vice President, Talent at JetBlue Airways, based in Long Island City, New York and Salt Lake City, Utah. Prior to that, Bonny was a Director Customer Experience and Analysis at JetBlue Airways, based in Salt Lake City from Jul 2009 to Oct 2011. Bonny started working as Director of Customer Service at JetBlue Airways in New York City in Aug 2008.
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Bonny Simi's current jobs
Current member of the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Board Nominating and Governance Committee, previous Board of Directors, and Executive Committee member. 3 time Olympian, 10 time National Champion in the sports of Luge and Bobsled.
Lead Independent Director, Chair Nominating/Governance Committee, Audit Committee Member
Bonny Simi's past jobs
Member of the Joby executive leadership team, overseeing air operations, people, safety, and sustainability. Joined the Joby Board as a strategic advisor in 2017 and then joined full-time in 2020 to help take the company public and scale to commercial air operations. Joby Aviation (NYSE: JOBY) is an American aerospace and air transportation company. The next-generation aviation company was founded in 2009 with offices in Santa Cruz, CA, Marina, CA, San Carlos, CA, Washington, DC, and Munich, Germany. Joby aims to deliver safe and affordable public air travel while advancing the transition to sustainable transportation. Joby Aviation (www.jobyaviation.com) vertically integrates the design, test, certification, and operation of eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) air taxis.
Jointly member of Senior Leadership Team at JetBlue Airways, and President JetBlue Technology Ventures. Maintained operational currency as Airline Captain at JetBlue
Member of the Senior Leadership Team at JetBlue Airways. Founded and lead the Corporate Venture arm of JetBlue Airways, through the wholly-owned subsidiary - JetBlue Technology Ventures (www.jetblueventures.com), which has the mission of incubating, investing, and strategically partnering with early-stage startups at the intersection of technology, travel, and hospitality. Located in Silicon Valley, California, JetBlue Technology Ventures is ideally positioned to connect startups from across the world with JetBlue Airways, an innovative airline based in the United States, serving 100+ cities across the US, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Maintained operational currency as Airline Captain at JetBlue.
Member of the Board of Directors. Compensation Committee Chair and Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee member. National Association Corporate Directors (NACD) Governance and Leadership Fellow, NACD Cyber-Risk Certified, NACD Directorship 100 Honoree in 2019.
Responsible for an integrated approach to selecting, developing and growing current and future talent at JetBlue Airways. Oversight of the Talent teams including Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Organizational Effectiveness (including Leadership Development) and People Analytics and Engagement. A major focus is to develop programs to identify and develop internal talent through an integrated approach to performance management, competency development, succession planning, career-pathing and emerging leader development programs. Maintained operational currency as an Airline Captain for JetBlue.
Responsible for the award winning JetBlue "Voice of the Customer" (VoC) program, ranked as one of the top programs in the U.S., by Forrester. The VoC team gathers customer feedback through surveys, web, emails and social media, and develops actionable insights that are cascaded across the organization to improve the customer experience - leading to 8 JDPower and Associates awards for the best domestic airline, and the top NPS (Net Promoter Scores) in the industry. Also responsible for JetBlue's call center strategic and workforce planning initiatives, including IT platform upgrades, managing the department's $50M budget, and project management office (PMO). Partners with the Stanford d.school and Stanford Graduate School of Business to teach design thinking and "customer-focused innovation" through executive education programs at Stanford. Maintained operational currency as an Airline Captain for JetBlue.
Led 120 person team to overhaul system operations across over a dozen operational departments - leading to improved on-time performance and reduced disruptions for customers, saving millions of dollars in service credits and boosting customer NPS (net promoter score). Maintained operational currency as an Airline Captain for JetBlue.
Responsible for all planning related activities for the Airports area including: budgeting, manpower planning, schedule integration and planning, industrial engineering projects, evaluation of various strategic options and initiatives, goal setting across all cities, performance evalutions, leadership development, people resources and analysis of new innovations that JetBlue may consider. Maintained operational currency as an Airline Captain for JetBlue.
Embraer 190 Captain and Airbus 320 First Officer.
Captain 737, 727. First Officer 777, 727, 737
Expert commentator for the sports of luge and bobsled during the network broadcasts of the 1994 Lillehammer, 1998 Nagano and 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Games.