Board of Advisors

BOARD OF ADVISORS TIMOTHY G. MORRIS

GULF STATES ENGINEERING

Morris is chairman and CEO of Gulf States Engineering, a multidiscipline engineering consulting firm, where he is responsible for project management, business development, civil/structural engineering and project financial analysis/management. He earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Dayton and a master’s degree in business administration from Tulane University. Morris is licensed as a professional engineer in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Texas and Arkansas. He began his career with Martin Marietta Manned Space Systems in New Orleans and moved to Mobile in 1989 to join Farnell and Associates. He also worked with Thompson Engineering and Lockwood Greene before joining Gulf States Engineering in 2001. Gulf States Engineering is a Partners for Growth investor.

GEORGE M. SIMMERMAN JR.

INGALLS SHIPBUILDING

Simmerman is vice president and chief counsel for Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries. He served as vice president, assistant general counsel and sector counsel for Northrup Grumman’s shipbuilding sector between 2008 and 2011. Simmerman is a member of the American, Alabama, Mississippi and Jackson County bar associations. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He served on the board of the Mississippi Bar’s Young Lawyers Section and the Loyola University School of Law’s Annual Longshore Act Conference, and as Mississippi chair of the American Bar Association’s Public Contract Law Section. Simmerman has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal, Fifth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits. He received a bachelor’s degree with honors in political science from Spring Hill College and graduated with honors with a juris doctorate from the University of Mississippi.

DARYL J. TAYLOR

AIRBUS US MANUFACTURING FACILITY

Taylor is vice president and general manager of the Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility. He joined Airbus in August 2015 from GKN Aerospace, where he was vice president and general manager of two facilities: Precision Machining in Wellington, Kan., and Bandy Aerospace in Burbank, Calif. Taylor has a Higher National Diploma in Aeronautical Engineering from Kelsterton College in the United Kingdom and a bachelor’s degree in manufacturing technology from Southwestern College in Kansas. Airbus is a Partners for Growth investor.