Stephen Thompson

Senior Executive Vice President, Qantas Airways

Name: Stephen Thompson 

Title: Senior executive vice president.

Company, city: Qantas Airways; Los Angeles, Calif. 

Number of employees: 28,000 worldwide; 250 in the United States.

Recent project: G’Day USA, our annual campaign with Australia to bring trade, tech, Best of Australia to the United States.

First job: I sold insurance in Adelaide for 12 months, then moved into the airline industry, starting at Ansett Airlines for 14 years and then Qantas for 24 years. 

Little-known fact about you: I run three times a week, three 10k jogs around Santa Monica. I also run when I travel to help with jet lag.

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