{"id":21432,"date":"2022-03-22T12:39:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=21432"},"modified":"2022-03-22T12:39:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:39:30","slug":"justin-towles-named-president-of-crown-consulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/unmanned-systems\/justin-towles-named-president-of-crown-consulting\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Justin Towles named President of Crown Consulting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Justin Towles has been named President of the Crown\nConsulting, Inc. He will oversee operations, strategy, and overall growth of\nthe organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Justin-Towles-bio-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21433\" width=\"207\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Justin-Towles-bio-2.jpg 619w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Justin-Towles-bio-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Justin-Towles-bio-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Justin-Towles-bio-2-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><figcaption><em>Justin Towles<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Towles joins Crown after serving in executive and\npolicy-making positions across the aerospace industry. A recognized leader in\nformulating aviation policy, he is a passionate and successful advocate for\nintegrating innovative technologies into the National Airspace System. Critical\nto his success is his remarkable ability to bring together, and forge consensus\namong, diverse stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJustin\u2019s work at the local, state, and federal level,\ncombined with his experience as an association executive and successful\nentrepreneur, and his track record in building talented teams makes him the\nideal person to lead Crown\u2019s operations and growth strategy,\u201d said Crown CEO Al\nKhan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before joining Crown, Towles served as a leader in the\nadvanced aviation practice at the D.C. law and lobbying firm, Akin Gump. Prior\nto that, he co-founded Ascension Global, a management consulting firm that\nprovided strategic guidance, market analysis, state-of-the-art assessments, and\nother senior-level support to federal agencies and major aircraft and equipment\nmanufacturers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, he served as Vice President, Federal Affairs for\nthe American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE), where he represented the\ninterests of airports and more than 6,000 AAAE members before Congress, the\nFederal Aviation Administration, and other parts of the Administration. He\nserved as Special Assistant to the Governor of Maryland and as a legislative\nstaffer for two Members of Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout his career, Towles has received awards and honors\nfor his service to the aerospace industry and work in the community. These\ninclude Airport Business Magazine\u2019s 40 under 40, AAAE Outstanding Service\nAward, multiple Maryland General Assembly citations, and a Maryland\nGubernatorial Citation for Outstanding Contributions to the Maryland Fire\nService.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Towles holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in legal studies and\nbusiness administration from Stevenson University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Towles has been named President of the Crown Consulting, Inc. He will oversee operations, strategy, and overall growth of the organization. Towles joins Crown after serving in executive and policy-making positions across the aerospace industry. A recognized leader in formulating aviation policy, he is a passionate and successful advocate for integrating innovative technologies into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unmanned-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21434,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432\/revisions\/21434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}