Craig Fuller

Craig Fuller arrived in Washington, D.C. from California with the Reagan Administration in 1981. He served eight years in the White House, first as Assistant to President Reagan for Cabinet Affairs before becoming Chief of Staff to Vice President George H.W. Bush during the second term of the Administration. He co-chaired the President Bush Transition and then entered the private sector in Washington leading public affairs consulting firms, associations and serving as an officer of a major consumer packaged goods company. Most recently, he served as the president and CEO of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association which grew to over over 400,000 members during his tenure. Completing the five years he agreed to serve, he now resides in Easton, Maryland and leads The Fuller Company, a strategic consulting group he organized when he initially left government in 1989. He remained an active pilot for 50 years and has been active in aviation policy matters as the recent chairman of the RTCA and a member of the NextGen Advisory Council. In early 2014 he was appointed for a three year term to the FAA's Management Advisory Council. He serves as a director of Bye Aerospace and of Redbird Flight Simulations as well as MITRE Corporation’s Aviation Advisory Council. Prior to joining Bye Aerospace he served on the board of AEAC. Mr. Fuller is active in civic organizations, serving currently as the chairman of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and as a director of the Academy Art Museum, both located on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.