Prior to her assignment as Foundation President, Gebhart served as executive vice president of AOPA communications. In that role, she led a division with responsibility for bringing AOPA’s message to members, the media, and the public through AOPA Pilot and AOPA Flight Training magazines, AOPA Online, numerous electronic newsletters, media relations efforts, and major public relations campaigns, including General Aviation Serves America and Let’s Go Flying.
Gebhart joined AOPA in 1994 as vice president of membership marketing, where she oversaw extensive membership growth, earning a promotion to senior vice president in 1996. In 1999 she added AOPA’s member products, technical assistance hotline, and Internet department to her areas of responsibility before being named executive vice president of non-dues revenue. She took over the executive vice president of communications role in 2007. And now as President of the AOPA Foundation, she uses her experience as a pilot and vast knowledge of AOPA to champion the causes that will help preserve the future of GA.
Gebhart’s passion for flying is evident in the types of programs she has led while at AOPA, including numerous student-pilot outreach and support efforts that have involved working with a general aviation industry coalition after product liability reform to grow the pilot population, partnerships with aviation universities and other organizations, including Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), National Air Transportation Association (NATA), Women in Aviation, International (WAI), as well as leading AOPA’s General Aviation Serves America campaign.
Before coming to AOPA, Gebhart spent ten years as vice president of Barry Blau & Partners in Chicago and then Baltimore, Maryland—AOPA’s marketing agency at that time. Her previous agency experience included more than nine years in financial products marketing, managing client relationships with Citibank, Commercial Credit and First Chicago, among others.
Gebhart holds a business degree from Iowa State University.
JJ Greenway
Chief Flight Instructor | AOPA ASF
Saturday, February 20th, 11:45 pm
10 Things Other Pilots Do Wrong
Keynote Seminar Area
Sunday, February 21st, 11:30 am
What Went Wrong
Keynote Seminar Area
Jonathan “JJ” Greenway, Chief Flight
Instructor for the AOPA Air Safety
Foundation, is once again returning to the NWAC& TS.
Formerly a Boeing 767 Captain and Check Airman for American Airlines, he has been an active CFI for three decades.
With over 13,500 hours logged, he teaches regularly out of his home base of Frederick, Maryland. He owns a Cessna 172 that he flies both for business and pleasure.
He is a regular on the aviation speaking circuit, appearing at AOPA Expo, Sun ‘n Fun, Aviation North, Fairbanks, local Ninety Nines groups and the Civil Air Patrol.
Johnny Summers
CFI , Bethany Consulting
Saturday, February 20th, 3:30 pm
The “Good” Pilot
Room D | Heritage
Sunday, February 21th, 11:30 am
Flying the Pattern
Room D | Heritage
Johnny started his flying career as a US Army helicopter pilot. After completing his degree, he transferred to the US Air Force and flew KC-135s refueling the SR-71 and then the F-117. He also piloted the US Air Force Academy’s Wings of Blue competition parachute team and was an instructor pilot at the Academy’s Flight Screening Program.
Johnny spent three years as an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies at Texas Christian University. Johnny has been a Regional Director of Flight Operations, Regional Director of Training, Chief Flight Instructor, Chief Pilot, and FAR part 141 Commercial Chief Instructor. In 1997, Johnny was recognized as the FAA National Aviation Safety Counselor of the Year.
With over 10,000 hours, Johnny is a FAA Designated Pilot Examiner, airline pilot, academic, and aviation consultant. As a pilot examiner, he administers tests for ASEL Private, Commercial, Instrument, CFI, and CFII certificates.
Academically, Dr. Summers earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration. His dissertation was on taxation within the U.S. airline industry. He focused his studies on aviation and airport management, construction, and finance. Johnny’s bachelor’s degree is in Professional Aeronautics with a concentration in Aviation Safety.
Johnny and his family live in Buckley,
Washington.
Bruce
Williams
 Bruce Williams worked on six versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator
during a 15-year career at Microsoft. His experience with the
development and design of Microsoft Flight Simulator included
consulting with leading aviation organizations and teaching
seminars about how to use Microsoft Flight Simulator as a training
aid. Bruce grew up in an Air Force family, and he has been
a pilot and aviation writer since the early 1970s. He remains
an active flight instructor at Galvin Flying Services in Seattle,
specializing in technically advanced aircraft, simulator instruction,
stall/spin/upset recovery training, and aerobatics. In early
2004, Bruce left Microsoft to devote full time to his consulting
company, BruceAir, LLC (www.BruceAir.com), which develops training
materials, provides flight training, and offers multimedia
presentations on a variety of topics for pilots and flight
instructors.
Dan Hargrove
Rocky Mountain College
Professor Dan Hargrove is the Director of Aviation, and oversees
all classroom instruction, flight training, and the overall
development of the program. Dan was a Distinguished Graduate
from the U. S. Air Force Academy in 1982, and majored in physics.
In the Air Force, he was an instructor pilot for four years
in the supersonic T-38. He then flew the C-141 Starlifter cargo
plane, carrying personnel and cargo all over the world. He
was airdrop and air refueling qualified, and flew numerous
missions during the Gulf War in 1991.
He earned a Master’s Degree from Montana State University
and taught engineering mechanics and physics at the Air Force
Academy and was an instructor pilot in primary flight training.
He then was selected to fly Boeing 757 VIP aircraft at Andrews
Air Force Base in Washington DC, where he served for seven
years. He was the Deputy Operations Group Commander over 700
people flying 37 aircraft. Their mission was to provide worldwide
air transportation for the Vice President, the First Lady,
the President’s cabinet and members of Congress. He flew
numerous Vice Presidential missions using the call sign, “Air
Force Two” and was flying the backup aircraft for the
President on September 11th, 2001.
Dan is an Airline Transport Pilot and Advanced Ground Instructor.
He has over 5000 flight hours of which over 2400 hours are
as a flight instructor and evaluator pilot. He teaches courses
in professional development, physics for aviation majors, and
crew resource management, among others. He believes his role
as a mentor is the most important part of his job. |
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