Jeff Burger joined&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler in March 2004, a few months after the publication’s launch. Besides editing the magazine, he has written many articles for it and conducted its interviews with such luminaries as Sir Richard Branson, James Carville, Suze Orman, Donald Trump, F. Lee Bailey, and Steve Van Zandt. Burger helped to oversee the introduction of BJT’s annual Readers' Choice surveys and Buyers’ Guide.
During his years with the magazine, it has won well over a hundred editorial awards. In 2011, Burger received the Gold Wing Award for Reporting Excellence from the National Business Aviation Association and the Aviation Journalism Award from the National Air Transportation Association. He has also won writing and editing awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. BJT, meanwhile, was named Best International Publication in 2017 in the Aerospace Media Awards. It was also a Magazine of the Year finalist in 2011, 2013, and 2016 and an Overall Excellence winner in 2018 in competitions sponsored by the American Society of Business Publication Editors.
Before coming to BJT, Burger spent 14 years at&nbsp;Medical Economics, the nation’s leading business magazine for doctors, where he served on the editorial board; directed staff recruiting; oversaw a $2 million annual budget; and was financial editor, news editor, and director of special projects. He has been editor of several publications, including&nbsp;Phoenix Magazine in Arizona, and has been a consulting editor at Time Inc. His articles have appeared in more than 75 magazines and newspapers, among them&nbsp;The Los Angeles Times,&nbsp;Barron’s, Reader’s Digest, Gentlemen’s Quarterly , and&nbsp;Family Circle. Chicago Review Press published his books,&nbsp;Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters, Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounter, Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon, and Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters. His music writing appears on multiple websites, including his own byjeffburger.com.
Burger, a summa cum laude graduate of the State University of New York at Albany, lives in Ridgewood, N.J. He and his wife, Madeleine, have two grown children. His off-hours passions include cooking, travel, technology, movies, and music.

Editor, Business Jet Traveler

Jeff Burger

The Corporate Angel Network (CAN) will once again be the beneficiary of NBAA’s charity benefit dinner/dance, set for tomorrow in the Grand Ballroom of the Bellagio Hotel from 6 to 11 p.m. The organization arranges free flights to treatment for cancer patients in available seats on corporate aircraft. The event will feature dinner, live and silent auctions and a concert by the Beach Boys. Tickets (obtainable through NBAA ’11 registration) cost $100 for entertainment only and $295 for the reception, dinner, entertainment and auctions. Tables are also available.
“The support of business aviation is key in our ability to help so many patients receive the best possible treatment for their specific type of cancer,” said CAN executive director Peter Fleiss, who noted that the NBAA benefit raised $220,000 last year.&nbsp;“NBAA has been a strong and long-time supporter of our efforts and the NBAA/CAN Charity Benefit is the newest example.&nbsp;Not only are the funds raised extremely helpful but the resulting flight-department exposure generates new corporate participants, added lift capacity and more patients flown.”
CAN, which marked its 30th anniversary this month, flew 3,021 patients in 2010, an all-time record and a 21-percent increase over the previous year’s total. In September 2010, CAN transported its 35,000th patient, 16-month-old William Relyea, who traveled on a NetJets flight from Westchester County (N.Y) Airport to his home in Syracuse, N.Y. with his mother and grandmother. He had been receiving treatment for neuroblastoma at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
CAN–which counts 530 participating corporations, six paid staff members and 50 part-time volunteers–continued to receive substantial corporate funding in 2011. In January, Safe Flight (which transported CAN’s first patient in 1981) donated $50,000. In March, Gulfstream Aerospace–which has provided CAN with seats on its corporate flights for more than 25 years–also contributed $50,000. And in April, the Greater Washington Aviation Open raised $82,000 for the charity. To date, this annual Washington, D.C. golf event has netted more than $1.6 million for CAN.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;The charity is also signing up more corporate participants as a result of the July 2010 hiring of Susan Cotton as manager of patient transport development. In this newly created position, Cotton works to increase the number of corporations donating business jet seats to cancer patients and visits cancer centers nationwide to familiarize them with CAN’s services. Fleiss credits her with helping the charity to add more than 50 corporate participants.
Cotton, who has travel-industry marketing and sales experience, was a CAN volunteer before joining the organization full time. She also is a former flight attendant for American Express and contract employee for New York-area flight departments.

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The Corporate Angel Network (CAN) will once again be the beneficiary of NBAA’s charity benefit dinner/dance, set for tomorrow in the Grand Ballroom of the 

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