Daniel J. Crowley

Daniel J. Crowley is a president and CEO of Triumph Group, Inc.(TGI) in January 2016. He oversees 14,000 employees across 65 factories producing commercial and military aircraft components. Dan joined Triumph from Raytheon Company, where he served as president of Integrated Defense Systems with annual revenues over $6 billion and Network Centric Systems from 2010 until 2015.

Crowley brings 34 years of industry experience where he has held key leadership roles in the development, production and deployment of some of the largest and most complex military and commercial products, including the P-3 and S-3 aircraft, the Atlas launch vehicle, commercial and classified spacecraft, the THAAD and Patriot defense missile defense systems, flight training

simulators and logistics, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, air traffic control systems, and commercial aircraft components. Dan began his career as a cooperative engineer his junior year working at Lockheed in south Austin, where he designed and outfitted several factories. After a corporate assignment at Lockheed’s headquarters in their Engineering and Technology group, Mr. Crowley worked on the merger of Lockheed and Martin Marietta. 

At age 33, he became plant manager of the historic Atlas launch vehicle factory in San Diego, and went on to serve in a variety of leadership positions at Lockheed Martin, including president of their training and logistics business, executive vice president of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program, and chief operating officer of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. As COO, Mr. Crowley was responsible for supporting Lockheed Martin’s key tactical fighter and military transport programs as well as the Advanced Development Programs (Skunk Works®) organization.

While serving as executive vice president of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program, Mr. Crowley was responsible for the design, development, and transition to initial production of three fighter variants and logistics system. Over his career, his contributions have been critical to our nation and generated billions of dollars in backlog and revenue for the firms he served.

Crowley earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in manufacturing systems engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He also received a master’s degree in management from Stanford University as a Sloan Fellow.