Jon Allman is a healthcare and wellness leader advocating for Veteran and first responder families, disaster survivors and vulnerable people in crisis. He is the former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Endeavors, a national service organization of over 2,000 employees based in San Antonio, Texas. Endeavors provides national community-based housing services, Veteran family health and wellness, emergency disaster response and recovery, 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 70,000 clients in 2022.Born and raised in Arkansas, Allman served a successful 20-year career in the Air Force, where he flew combat missions in the C-5 and C-9 while leading the only dedicated aeromedical evacuation squadron in Europe. 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. In 2019, he received the San Antonio Business Journal Veteran in Business Award.Allman is a lifetime member of the Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars Associations and has served on the board of directors of Family Endeavors, Reach Resilience an Endeavors Foundation, the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Executive Board, and as Chairman of Urban Alliance, a San Antonio-based housing initiative for people with disabilities as well as Hallmark University. He also served as an elder at Oak Hills Church for ten years.