Airport elects board chair

NAPLES — The Naples Airport Authority elected Donna Messer chair for 2017.

Messer heads a Naples coaching, mentoring, team building and facilitation firm. She also consults on labor-management collaboration. Previously, she worked with American Airlines for three decades in a variety of executive positions.

Five citizen volunteers are on the Naples Airport Authority board. They are appointed by the Naples City Council to four-year terms to govern the Airport Authority. The other commissioners are Vice Chair Dick Evans, Ted Brousseau, Michael Lenhard and James Rideoutte.