Jane Dare Haas, marketing director at HALO-Flight, Inc., has twenty years
of healthcare and transportation marketing experience, and fifteen years of
speech communication classroom instruction experience at Del Mar College
in Corpus Christi, Texas.
A mother of three and a grandmother of a three-year-old grandson, Ms. Haas'
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Theatre is from the University of Memphis,
and her Master's Degree is from Texas A&M University — Corpus Christi.
Haas is also a graduate of Leadership Corpus Christi, Class XX; on the Board
of Directors of the Westside Business Association, and Vice Chair of the
Professional and Networking Advisory Committee of the Behavioral Health Center
of Nueces County.
Mr. Tom Klassen grew up in Claremore, Oklahoma and started flying a spotting
helicopter off of a Mexican tuna fishing boat in Central America at age 19. He has
lived and worked in Papua New Guinea, Australia, Thailand, Russia, Eastern
Europe, and all over the United States including Hawaii and Alaska, but has found
a home here in Corpus Christi.
He has had an exciting flying career having flown helicopter logging operations in
Alaska, bush flying in Papua New Guinea, TV reporting in Boston, aerial firefighting
missions in Alaska and the West Coast, tours in Hawaii, and a Russian fighter jet in
air shows for seven years.
However, in his over 10,000 hours of flight time, he feels that the twenty years spent
transporting patients in helicopters has been the most rewarding.
Tom started with HALO-Flight as the Director of Operations in 2010 and was promoted
to Executive Director a year later. He is the FAA designated company check airman
and continues to fly patients whenever given the opportunity.
He currently serves as Past President for the Texas Association of Air Medical Services,
National Chairman of the Directors of Operations Section for the AAMS, Board Member
of the Air Medical Operators Association. He is a member of the Helicopter Association
International, the National EMS Pilots Association, and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots
Association. Outside of work, he is an active member of the Soaring Society of America,
and can be found flying his sailplane most weekends.
