Under Ed’s leadership, Delta is transforming the air travel experience with generational investments in technology, aircraft, airport facilities and, most importantly, Delta’s employees worldwide. A 24-year Delta veteran, Ed has been a critical leader in Delta’s long-term strategy and champion of putting Delta’s shared values of honesty, integrity, respect, perseverance and servant leadership at the core of every decision.

Since being named Delta’s CEO in May 2016, Ed has expanded Delta’s leading position as the world’s most reliable airline while growing its global footprint and enhancing the customer experience in the air and on the ground. During his tenure as CEO, Delta has become the world’s most awarded airline, having been named the Wall Street Journal’s top U.S. airline; the top-ranking airline in Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies; the most on-time global airline by FlightGlobal; the Platinum Award recipient for operational excellence by Cirium; among TIME100’s Most Influential Companies; a Glassdoor Best Place to Work; and more.

In 2018, Fortune magazine named Ed among “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” and in 2019, he was elected to the membership of the Council on Foreign Relations. Most recently, Ed was awarded for his Executive Leadership in FlightGlobal’s 2021 Airline Strategy Awards and named among the Top 10 CEOs of 2021 in Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards as a leader who excelled at supporting their people throughout a global pandemic. 

Ed’s values-based leadership propelled the airline to become the industry leader and a trusted global brand, guided by empathy, humanity and devotion to service, which has served Delta well in good times and bad. He has served as a Delta leader and steered the company through the most challenging periods of the company’s history, including 9/11, bankruptcy and COVID-19.

When asked to sum up his job in five words, Ed’s response is: “Taking care of our people.” The answer reflects his leadership philosophy, which is based on the “virtuous circle” – if you take care of your people, they take care of your customers, whose business and loyalty allow you to reward your investors.

Ed joined Delta in 1998 as V.P. – Finance and Controller. He was named Chief Financial Officer in 2005, and in 2007 he was appointed to serve as Delta’s President.

Before joining Delta, Ed held senior finance positions at Frito-Lay International and Pepsi-Cola International. Ed started his career with Price Waterhouse, where he became an audit partner in its New York practice.

Ed grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, and graduated from St. Bonaventure University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He lives in Atlanta and is deeply involved in his faith, family and community.

Follow Ed on LinkedIn and Instagram for his thoughts on leadership, culture, aviation and more.

Prior to joining Apollo, Mr. Silver was a Senior Advisor at Guggenheim Partners, a $300 billion global investment and advisory financial services firm. There, he provided investment banking services to some of the largest cleantech and climate-tech companies globally.

Mr. Silver is a member of the boards of National Grid (NYSE: NGG), the British utility and a FTSE 15 company and Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG), one of the country’s fastest growing hydrogen companies. He is, or has been, on the boards of several special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) focused on mitigation and adaptation opportunities, the first of which merged with a battery recycling company. He is also on the board of several privately held companies in the water and sustainable packaging sectors. Prior to his work at Guggenheim, Mr. Silver was the Managing Partner of Tax Equity Advisors LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor working with Fortune 500 companies on investments in solar power projects.  

Named one of the country’s “top ten, green-tech influencers” (Reuters), Mr. Silver led both the U.S. government’s $40 billion clean energy investment fund and its’ $20 billion advanced automotive technology fund during the Obama Administration. These were, and remain, the largest dedicated clean energy funds in the world. He and his team underwrote financing for some of the largest, most innovative and most complex energy projects in the country, including solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels, fossil, nuclear and advanced automotive technology projects. His transactions were twice named "Deal of the Year", and one was nominated for "Deal of the Decade" by leading investment publications.  

Earlier, Mr. Silver served as a Senior Advisor to NextEra, one of the world’s largest utilities and the nation’s largest clean energy investor and operator and ICF, the nation’s largest energy and environment-focused consulting firm. He also served on the board of EEmax, a tankless water heating company, through its successful sale.  

Mr. Silver is on the board of Resources for the Future, the leading economic research firm for energy, environment and natural resource issues and previously served as Chairman of the board of American Forests, the nation’s oldest forest conservation group and on the board of the American Federation of Scientists.  

Earlier, Mr. Silver was the co-founder of venture capital firm Core Capital Partners and Chief Operating Officer of Tiger Management, one of the country's largest and most successful hedge funds. He began his career at McKinsey and Company, the global consulting firm.  

Mr. Silver has served as a senior official in three U.S. Cabinets: Energy, Commerce and Interior and as an advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury. He is an expert on how public policy affects investment in energy, sustainability and climate change, has testified frequently on Capitol Hill, been quoted in numerous publications and is a frequent speaker at energy conferences.  

Mr. Silver has served on the boards of the Federal City Council, the Community Foundation of the National Capitol Region, WETA (public television), Arena Stage and also served as special advisor to the Chancellor of the DC public schools. He is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  

For several years, he taught the second-year MBA course on entrepreneurship at Georgetown University.  

An honors graduate of Harvard University, Mr. Silver did graduate work at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in
Geneva while on Fulbright and Rotary Graduate Fellowships. He speaks French and Spanish.  

Mr. Silver and his family live in Washington, DC.

Mr. Ketchum joined NextEra Energy in 2002. He has served as chief financial officer of NextEra Energy and as chief financial officer of the company’s vertically integrated rate-regulated electric utility subsidiary, Florida Power & Light Company. He has also previously served as president and as chief financial officer of NextEra Energy Partners. 

Mr. Ketchum holds a Master of Laws degree in taxation and a Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, where he was managing editor of the Law Review. Mr. Ketchum earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and finance, graduating magna cum laude, from the University of Arizona. He has also completed the Emerging CFO – Strategic Financial Leadership Program at Stanford University.