Thursday, November 6, 2025
Taking Flight: Celebrating the Age of Airplanes
Roel Huinink - Aviation Leadership Award
Roel Huinink serves as Chief Executive Officer of JFKIAT – the operator of Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Huinink is a strategic leader with an extensive knowledge of the aviation industry. He has a 25+ year history in airports with experience from Royal Schiphol Group, leading transformational projects for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands, leading to airside and operational optimization as well as non-aeronautical growth. Prior to joining JFKIAT, he held positions as Managing Director of Arlanda Schiphol Development Company, a travel retail management company in Sweden, as well as Managing Director at Norwegian-based Airport Retail Group. Between 2021 and 2024, he has also served on the WBP/Associates Board of Directors of Airport Council International North America.
In 2018, Huinink assumed leadership of JFKIAT, the first private air terminal operator in the United States that oversees Terminal 4 at JFK International Airport. Under his leadership, T4 has grown from 21M to 28M passengers per year. Huinink has continued to pave the way for the future of airport operations, spearheading the 1.5B redevelopment of T4, which broke ground in 2021, resulting in significant operational and technological improvements.
Under his guidance, the project has consolidated Delta’s JFK operations, expanded the terminal’s physical capacity, upgraded its terminal environment, and leveraged cutting-edge technology to innovate T4’s systems for the future and create a world-class terminal. In 2025, while the physical infrastructure of T4 continues to evolve, JFKIAT launched the first phase of its North Star program, designed to establish an aligned strategic vision across the Terminal community and stakeholders to reimagine the T4 experience. T4 also achieved many accolades in sustainability and was awarded the Greenest Terminal by the Green Restaurant Association in 2023 and earned the nation’s first LEED Platinum certification for O&M on an existing terminal facility in 2022.
From navigating complex stakeholder dynamics to spearheading inclusive workforce initiatives, Huinink is adept at creating a collaborative and innovative culture within JFKIAT that extends to every business partner and member within the T4 community. His leadership at JFKIAT exemplifies his ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders at every level to unite behind a cohesive vision for the future.
Jane Bishop - Leroy R. Grumman Award
Jane Bishop is the sector vice president and general manager of the Global Surveillance division at Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems, a premier provider of military aircraft, autonomous systems, aerospace structures and next-generation solutions.
Bishop oversees an integrated portfolio of systems that deliver intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, targeting (ISR&T); multi-domain command and control (MDC2); strategic command, control, and communications (C3) capabilities; and aircraft solutions essential to our customers’ global security missions. These systems include E-2D Advanced Hawkeye (and E-2C and other international E-2 variants), MQ-4C Triton, E-130J, RQ-4 and ALMDS.
In this role, Bishop brings together leadership experience and understanding from her previous roles at Northrop Grumman. Prior to this position, Bishop was the vice president and general manager of the Autonomous Systems division, where she led key autonomous aeronautics programs. Before 2020, Bishop was vice president and program manager, Manned Airborne Surveillance Programs.
Bishop joined Northrop Grumman in 1986 as an antenna and radio frequency equipment design engineer working on the U.S. Navy E-2 Hawkeye and C-2 Greyhound programs. She advanced into positions of increasing responsibility, pivoting from engineering to program management in 2003. In 2015, Bishop was promoted to vice president of program management for the E-2 program, adding U.S. Air Force E-8C Joint STARS and U.S. Navy ALMDS to her portfolio in 2018.
Bishop is a graduate of Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. She also completed the Harvard Business School Professional Leadership Development program.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense technology company. Our pioneering solutions equip our customers with the capabilities they need to connect and protect the world and push the boundaries of human exploration across the universe. Driven by a shared purpose to solve our customers’ toughest problems, our employees define possible every day.
Steve Rowland, ACE - Aviation Leadership Award
Steve Rowland
Executive Director, Terminal One Group Association (TOGA)
Born and raised in a small village on the shores of Lake Erie in Vermilion, Ohio, Steven C. Rowland is an accomplished airport executive with more than two decades of executive leadership experience managing some of the most complex and high-profile airline terminal operations in the United States. He has built a distinguished career advancing operational performance, safety, and infrastructure development across top-tier international airports including John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) and Chicago Midway Airport (MDW). Mr. Rowland has consistently delivered results in operational excellence, capital projects, and consortium governance, while fostering collaborative relationships with global carriers, municipal agencies, TSA, CBP, and international aviation authorities.
Since 2002, Mr. Rowland has been employed by AvAirPros Services, a leading professional aviation consultancy and management services provider, and currently serves as the Executive Director to the Terminal One Group Association, owned by Air France, Korean Air, and Lufthansa. With the support of his team of management professionals, Mr. Rowland’s responsibilities include delivery of Terminal One’s strategic initiatives, capital improvement projects and operational objectives.
Prior to his assignment at JFK in 2016, Mr. Rowland held various executive management roles at major U.S. airports, including General Manager of Tom Bradley International Terminal Equipment Corporation (TBITEC) at LAX and Executive Director of the Detroit Airlines’ North Terminal Consortium (DANTeC) at DTW. At TBITEC he supported operations for over seventy (70) airlines across multiple terminals and played a central role in the successful opening of the new Tom Bradley International Terminal. During his years at DANTeC, he commissioned the New North Terminal and led the consortium through its’ early development years.
Mr. Rowland’s initial assignment with AvAirPros Services was at Chicago’s MDW with the Midway Airlines Terminal Consortium (MATCO), where he was instrumental in the design, commissioning, and operation of one of the country’s first in-line Explosive Detection Systems. Before joining AvAirPros Services, he held management positions with G&T Conveyor Company, with oversight, design and installation of multiple baggage handling systems worldwide.
Mr. Rowland pursued his academic studies at The Ohio State University and Lewis University. He also attained advanced professional certifications through the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). His expertise was further recognized through his appointment by the National Academies of Science, Transportation Research Board to serve on the prestigious Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) committee dedicated to advancing innovation and best practices in common-use terminal facilities.
Demonstrating an unwavering commitment to excellence, Mr. Rowland is devoted to cultivating strategic and collaborative partnerships with airlines, airport authorities, government agencies, service providers, terminal operators and key stakeholders. Through this engagement, he ensures
the highest standards of operational integrity, safety, and efficiency, while consistently advancing initiative that enrich and elevate the passenger experience.
