American Airlines Group Inc. announced the election of Vicente Reynal, 48, to its board of directors. Reynal currently serves as chairman, president and CEO of Ingersoll Rand, a global provider of mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions. He has served as president and CEO of Ingersoll Rand since March 2020, when he led the transformational merger between Gardner Denver and the Industrials Segment of Ingersoll Rand.

He was named chairman of the company in November 2021. Reynal joined Gardner Denver in 2015 as CEO of its Industrials Segment. He was named president and CEO of the company and was also appointed to its board of directors in January 2016.

Prior to joining Gardner Denver, Reynal spent 11 years at Danaher Corporation where he served as president for various businesses and held other senior executive leadership roles. Before that, he held operational and executive roles at Thermo Fisher Scientific and AlliedSignal Corp. Reynal holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and earned his Master of Science degrees in both mechanical engineering and technology and policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.