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John B. Mowell was elected to EMS Technologies’ Board of Directors in 1984, and has served as its chairman since 2002. During his years on the Board, he has chaired the Finance, Audit, Compensation and Executive Committees. He currently serves as chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee and is a member of the Audit and Compensation Committees.
Mr. Mowell is president and CEO of Mowell Financial Group, Inc., of Tallahassee, Florida, an investment-banking firm he founded in 1980 serving clients primarily throughout the Southeast. He also serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Capital City Bank in Tallahassee, one of the oldest banks in Florida.
Mr. Mowell previously served as Chairman, CEO of Reflectone, Inc., a publicly traded high technology aerospace company involved in the manufacture of large-scale flight simulators and training systems for the commercial aviation and military aerospace industries. He sold Reflectone to British Aerospace PLC London, U.K. in the early 90’s.
Active in public service, he was appointed by the Governor of Florida to the Florida State Board of Administration, the agency responsible for the management of over $70 billion of state retirement assets where he served two terms as chairman. Mr. Mowell was also a founding director and treasurer of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, a founder and director of the Governors Club in Tallahassee, past chairman of the Tallahassee Arts Alliance, and past director of the Economic Development Advisory Council for the State of Florida. He was founding president of the prestigious Economics Club of Florida, served as its chairman for five years and is currently chairman emeritus of that organization.
He also serves on the Florida A & M University-Florida State University College of Engineering Advisory Council and the Challenger Learning Center Advisory Board, as well as the Boy Scouts of America Advisory Council-Suwannee River Area Council.
Mr. Mowell earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a 1956 graduate of the Wharton School of Commerce and Finance. He subsequently served in the military as a Naval Aviator engaged in carrier based anti- submarine warfare operations in the North Atlantic. | 