in june 2017, david sneed, who had overseen a number of changes, including accepting skymiles as payments for jet cards, left delta private jets where he was the senior executive. no replacement was immediately announced, although delta air lines officials say they remain committed to the private jet service. in july 2017, delta private jets named former virgin australia coo gary hammes as its new president replacing sneed. in october 2018, gary hammes was succeeded by jeff mihalic who was appointed ceo of the company. mihalic is the former president of delta material services. at the same time, long-time delta employee lee gossett was named senior vice president of operations and coo. prior to his appointment, gossett was the vice president of line maintenance at delta air lines.