Nominees to the NBAA Board of Directors 2019

Aug. 26, 2019

The following are candidates nominated by the NBAA Nominating & Governance Committee. Board elections will be held during the Annual Meeting of Members to be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV, on Oct. 23, 2019. Review the NBAA Bylaws for more information on the nomination process.

Rich Walsh

Vice President, American Express

Richard Walsh is currently the vice president of aviation for American Express, where he is responsible for leading all facets of the aviation operation.

Prior to his appointment at American Express, Walsh served as vice president of global aviation and travel security services for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He also worked as vice president of aviation and business continuity for Cardinal Health and spent 20 years with United Airlines in multiple training and flight operations leadership roles.

He is past chairman of the NBAA Safety Committee and currently serves on the Southern Illinois University Aviation Management Advisory Board. He has accumulated over 17,000 hours of diverse flight experience and is type rated on seven different turbo-jet aircraft.

Dan Williams

Vice President of Aviation and Global Travel, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Dan Williams is the vice president of aviation and global travel for Walmart Inc. He joined the flight department in 2000 as a first officer. He rose through the ranks, and has been in his current role since 2007.

Before joining Walmart, Williams was a professional pilot for business flight departments and airlines. He has been a pilot for 34 years, and has an airline transport pilot rating with more than 9,000 accident-free, incident-free flight hours.

An Arkansas native, Williams holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Florida State University. He resides in Bentonville.