OSIDA - The Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority

The Board

Bailey J. Siegfried

Bailey J. Siegfried is vice president of Culture, Communication, IT, HR and Corporate Responsibility for NORDAM, as well as chair of the firm's Culture Council and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council. He serves on multiple international NORDAM boards.
In his primary role, Siegfried oversees all essential services functions, including safety, environmental health, ethics and compliance, global-trade compliance, security, talent attraction and leadership development. He directs corporate branding, as well as internal and external communication, including community, government and media relations. As executive leader for the company’s Office of Corporate Responsibility, he drives next-level results in environmental sustainability, stakeholder and community engagement, and educational outreach for area students, teachers and schools.
Before his current role, Siegfried served as Vice President of Global Marketing for the firm as well as served in roles leading customer service and sales.
Siegfried is the Board Chair of the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority, which administers the only unrestricted Federal Aviation Administration space corridor for travel to and from space. An instrument-rated pilot and member of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, the Space Foundation and co-chair of the Tulsa Regional Chamber Aerospace Council, he is involved in multiple aerospace, space and STEM-development initiatives across the country.
In the community, he serves on the boards of STEM non-profit Flight Night, Tulsa Area United Way, the Tulsa Community Foundation, and the Ascension St. John Hospital Moral and Medical Ethics Board.
Siegfried began his career in the risk management industry, working for Arthur J. Gallagher, and maintains licensing as a property and casualty risk-management insurance agent. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and serves on the advisory council for the university’s Mendoza College of Business.

Deirdre Gurry

Deirdre M. Gurry is the Owner of Aviaspire, LLC., an aviation services, consulting, and flight instruction company. Ms. Gurry retired from active duty with the U.S. Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2019 and has over 20 years of hands-on experience in all aspects of aviation safety, leadership, flight test, domestic operations, and international operations. She held assignments in Air Mobility Command, Air Force Materiel Command, NATO, and Air Education and Training Command to include combat operations in Southeast Asia. Her military assignments culminated as the Squadron Commander of the 8th Flying Training Squadron in Enid, Oklahoma. She has a Master’s of Business Administration and a Master’s of Military Operational Art and Science, as well as a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to developing Aviaspire, Ms. Gurry worked at the Oklahoma Flight Standards District Office for the Federal Aviation Administration. She was also the Airport Director of Enid Woodring Regional Airport. Ms. Gurry is an active Commercial pilot as well as a Single-Engine, Multi-Engine, and Instrument Flight Instructor.

Brenda Rolls

Brenda Rolls is an Oklahoma native. She earned a bachelor’s degree in organizational administration from OSU in 1984 and began her career in the California office of her family’s business, Frontier Engineering, Inc., where she gained experience with government cost accounting and contract administration. Rolls pursued graduate studies at Biola University in La Mirada, Calif., and graduated with a doctorate in psychology in 1996. She and her family returned to Stillwater to support and facilitate organizational transitions occurring within Frontier Engineering in 1998. The core business of engineering design, development and manufacturing was renamed Frontier Electronic Systems (FES), and Rolls participated in many strategic initiatives focused on maturing the company into a world class, sophisticated, and highly successful business enterprise.
In January 2008, Rolls was promoted to president and CEO of FES https://www.fescorp.com/history.html. Under her leadership, the company has experienced revenue growth of more than 50 percent and work force growth of 30 percent while enhancing its engineering and manufacturing capabilities and maintaining strong profitability. In conjunction with the strong leadership team at FES, Rolls maintains a core focus on strategic technology advancement and product diversity initiatives designed to insure FES’s continued success in the aerospace and defense technology marketplace.
Rolls is currently serving on the OCAST OSTRAD Board, is a member of the Oklahoma Business Roundtable, served on the Governor’s Council for Science and Technology under Governor Fallin, and has served the local community through volunteer activities with the Stillwater Interfaith Counseling Center, Stillwater Domestic Violence Services, the YMCA, and First United Methodist Church. Rolls and her husband, Mark, are parents of two daughters.

David Gillett

P. David Gillett Jr.,Major General, USAF. (Retired) has over 30 years of successful senior executive experience in all aspects of aerospace
maintenance, repair, overhaul and logistics in organizations ranging in size from 400 to 16,000
employees and culminating in assignment as Director of Maintenance for the United States Air
Force and subsequently as Commander of the Air Force’s largest Air Logistics Center at Oklahoma
City.

Michael Schulz

Mike Schulz is a Republican and former member of the Oklahoma State Senate, representing District 38 from 2006 to 2018. Schulz served as state Senate president pro tempore from 2017 to 2018.
Schulz was prevented from running for re-election in 2018 to the Oklahoma State Senate because of term limits.
Schulz earned his B.S. in agriculture from Oklahoma State University. His professional experience includes working as a farmer, and being an active member of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau where he served as chairman of the Young Farmer and Rancher Committee in 1996 and also worked for the organization for many years as Field Representative. He is a graduate of Oklahoma Agriculture Leadership Class V. He farms near Altus and continues to be an active member in the Altus Kiwanis Club as well as the First United Methodist Church. He won election to the Senate in a special election in May of 2006. He married the former Reenie Reid. The couple has four children, Ben and wife Emily, and Abby and husband Colton.

Richard Henry

Vince Howie

Richard “Vince” Howie is the Chief Executive Officer, Vice President, and part owner of Aircraft Towing Systems (ATS) World Wide LLC since Mar of 2020. ATS is an innovative technology for a new way to move aircraft around airports. Mr. was recently appointed to the Board of Directors for the Oklahoma Science Industrial Development Authority (OSIDA).

Prior to ATS, Mr. Howie became the Aerospace & Defense Director for the Oklahoma Department of Commerce in November 2013. He served on the Oklahoma Strategic Military Planning Commission, the Governor’s Unmanned Aerospace Systems Council, Oklahoma F-35 Task Force, and the Oklahoma Careers Pathways Sub-committee.

Prior to this position Mr. Howie retired from the U.S. Air Force in April 2012 after 29 years of civil service. Mr. Howie is a former member of the Senior Executive Service (SES) working at the Pentagon, Air Mobility Command, and Tinker Air Force Base (AFB). His Air Force career began in August 1984 at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker AFB.

Mr Howie has a Master’s of Science in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University in Washington DC, a Masters of Arts in Management from Webster University, a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from University of Central Oklahoma, was a National Securities Study Management Fellow from Maxwell School of Business, Syracuse University, and Senior Professional Military Education from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington DC.