Terry Miyauchi

Terry most recently served as the Global Public Safety Segment Manager at Bell Textron with a focus on the development, growth, and influence of the police, fire and SAR helicopter industry around the world. In doing so, he enabled more than $1.2 billion dollars of segment related revenue for the company.

On behalf of the company, he provided consulting services to more than 150 agencies, helping them achieve greater operational success, expansion, efficiency, and safety.

With a career that includes extensive hands-on operational experience and a seven-year tenure at Bell, Terry has distilled a lifetime of institutional knowledge into a resource of best practices, lessons learned, and solutions to the common challenges of the global airborne pubic safety industry.

Before joining Bell, Terry spent more than 30 years in operational Public Safety service.

Terry began his aviation career in the mid-1980’s serving in the U.S. Army as an AeroScout pilot. Through the years, he has worked as a pilot, instructor pilot, standardization pilot, safety officer, aviation manager and senior leader.

He has accrued more than 7000 public safety command pilot hours in multiple helicopter types. He additionally holds ratings in airplanes, gliders and lighter than air categories.

Terry retired from the Arizona Department of Public Safety where he most recently served as the Aviation Commander, overseeing a statewide fleet of public safety helicopters and airplanes. As Commander, he was responsible for all aspects of police, wildland fire, SAR and emergency management operations.

Terry holds an undergraduate degree in Aeronautics and a graduate degree in Aviation Leadership, both from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

He regularly provides a variety of keynotes and lectures on teamwork, leadership and safety based topics to audiences around the world. Although rooted in aviation fundamentals, multiple referrals have now expanded to non-aviation entities that can benefit from aviation disciplines.

Serving on various Boards and Advisory Committees, to include the Airborne Public Safety Association Board of Directors, International Chiefs of Police Aviation Committee and European Safety Promotion Network in the furtherance of the airborne public safety segment.