Joel Peterson is the chairman of JetBlue Airways and the founding partner of Peterson Partners, a Salt Lake City-based investment management firm.

Peterson has a long history of successful growth capital investments in various industries. He currently teaches entrepreneurial management at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, is the chairman of the board of the Overseers at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, is the chairman of the board at JetBlue Airways, and serves as a director of Franklin Covey. He served formerly as managing partner of Trammell Crow Company.

He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Peterson is the author of The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds that Make a Business Great.