Midwest Air Group, Inc., the new parent company of Midwest Airlines, announced appointments to its new board of directors.

The board will oversee the strategy and performance of the company, which was acquired by TPG Capital on January 31.

The members of the new board are:

• Timothy Hoeksema, chief executive officer of Midwest Airlines. Hoeksema will serve as chairman of the new board. Hoeksema has served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Midwest Airlines since its incorporation in 1983. He also is a director of the Marcus Corp., the Air Transport Association, the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Greater Milwaukee Committee, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Association of Commerce and the Spirit of Milwaukee.


• John Bergstrom, chairman and chief executive officer of Neenah.-based Bergstrom Corp., which owns and operates 23 automotive dealerships. Bergstrom also serves as a director of Kimberly-Clark Corp., Wisconsin Energy Corp. and the Green Bay Packers.


• Jonathan Garfinkel, vice president with TPG Capital. Prior to joining TPG, he was with Newbridge Latin America and Lehman Brothers. Garfinkel is a director of Aleris International Inc. and Education for Change, an Oakland, Calif.-based operator of charter schools.


• Richard Schifter, a partner with TPG Capital since 1994. Prior to joining TPG, he was a partner at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in corporate restructuring law. Schifter also is a director of the Bristol Group; LPL Holdings, Inc.; Ariel Reinsurance Company Ltd.; and a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He previously served on the boards of America West Airlines, US Airways and Ryanair.


• David Siegel, chairman and chief executive officer of Gate Gourmet Group Inc., a global airline catering and logistics provider. Prior to joining Gate Gourmet in 2004, Siegel served as president, chief executive and a board member of US Airways Group, Inc. and US Airways, Inc., the airline operating unit. He has also served as chairman and chief executive officer of Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. and as a senior vice president of Continental Airlines.


• Elizabeth (Betsey) Solberg, senior partner and co-chair of the worldwide operating committee and regional president of Fleishman-Hillard, a leading global public relations firm. Solberg opened F-H's office in Kansas City, the firm's first outside of its St. Louis headquarters. She currently operates her own strategic communications firm, Communications Partners LLC. Solberg is a director of Ferrellgas Partners, L.P. and is a leader in civic, cultural and educational groups in Kansas City, Mo.

TPG Capital is the global buyout group of TPG, a private investment firm founded in 1992 with more than $35 billion of assets under management and offices in San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, New York, Minneapolis, Fort Worth, Melbourne, Menlo Park, Moscow, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.