Jon Allman

Jon Allman is the Chief Executive Officer of Endeavors, a national service organization of nearly 2,000 employees. Based in San Antonio, Texas, Endeavors provides community-based housing services, Veteran family mental health and wellness clinics, emergency disaster response, and humanitarian support for migrant families and unaccompanied children across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Endeavors has assisted vulnerable people in crisis since 1969, most recently serving over 80,000 clients in 2021.

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Allman attended the University of Arkansas, where he completed the Air Force ROTC program and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. After graduation, Allman earned an MA in Administration from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri and served a successful 20-year career in the Air Force, where he flew combat missions while leading the only dedicated aeromedical evacuation squadron in Europe as Director of Operations. In October 2000, Allman piloted the MacKay Trophy award-winning mission to Aden Yemen, rescuing critically wounded survivors from the terrorist attack on the USS Cole.

Allman is a lifetime member of the Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars Associations and a recipient of the San Antonio Business Journal Veteran in Business Award. He serves on the board of directors of Family Endeavors, the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, and as Chairman of Urban Alliance, a San Antonio-based housing initiative for people with disabilities.