ADAM M. ARON Vail Resorts Adam Aron is chairman and chief executive officer of Vail Resorts. Vail Resorts is the premier mountain resort operator. Prior to his position at Vail Resorts, Aron served as president and chief executive officer of Kloster Cruise Limited, the fourth largest cruise company in the world. Previously, Aron was senior vice president of marketing for United Airlines, responsible for United's advertising, marketing strategy and programs, reservations, and customer relations. Before joining United in November, 1990, Aron served as senior vice president for Hyatt Hotels Corporation in Chicago. He also served as vice president of marketing programs for Western Airlines and was based in Los Angeles. Prior to that, he was based in New York with Pan American World Airways as system director of marketing plans and programs. He serves on the board of directors of Vail Resorts and of Norwegian Cruise Line Limited. He is a former member of the board of directors of Royal Caribbean Cruises Limited, and Bank Northwest, located in Steamboat Springs and Vail, Colorado. He also served as an official delegate to President Clinton's 1995 White House Conference on Travel and Tourism. Aron was named "1995 Travel Person of the Year" and "1995 Cruise Industry Executive of the Year" by Gem and Cruiselink, respectively. Tour and Travel News named him one of "The 25 Most Influential Executives in the Tour and Travel Industry" for 1994. He was named in 1992 by Crain's Chicago Business as one of the 40 under 40, "the forty shakers and movers in Chicago under the age of 40." Travel Agent magazine named him one of the 1993 "People of the Year" in the travel industry. He was named twice as one of the "Ad Age Marketing 100" -- the 100 best marketers in the United States -- in 1992, and again in 1994 for Norwegian Cruise Line. Aron, a Philadelphia native, holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BA, cum laude, in government from Harvard College. He and his wife Abby have two children.