Mike Barger

CLO and Vice President

Mike Barger was part of the JetBlue Airways start-up team in early 1999. He founded JetBlue University, the corporate learning organization, and is currently the vice president and chief learning officer of JetBlue University and flies for JetBlue as a captain and check airman (instructor pilot). Mike attended the University of Michigan, where he received his undergraduate degree in economics and psychology in 1986. He then received his commission as an officer in the United States Navy and served three deployments flying the F/A-18 Hornet aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Dwight David Eisenhower. These deployments included combat action in Desert Storm, over Bosnia, and in the skies above Kosovo. While in the Navy, Mike spent three years as an instructor at the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN). He is also an impassioned and widely published author of numerous articles on strategy, training techniques, and complex weapons systems employment. Mike is in the inaugural cohort.