Before joining Sally in 1985, he spent more than 25 years in Jacksonville broadcasting including 10 years in television management as news director and later vice president and general manager of Channel 12 WTLV. He is recipient of a number of national awards for broadcast journalism.

Howard serves is a director of Houston-based American Electric Technologies (NASDAQ: AETI - www.aeti.com) and recently retrired as a director of Philadelphia-based Environmental Tectonics Corporation (AMEX: ETCC) and . He previously served as corporate director of broadcast strategic planning for a major U.S. communications company.  He has served as a director of several U.S. technology corporations with international business activities. He is a frequent international lecturer on future technology, international business, corporate governance and the Internet.

Jacksonville native, Howard received his undergraduate degree in broadcasting from the University of Florida. He is a PMD graduate of the Harvard Business School and the Japanese International School of Business Studies. He is also an executive professor at the University of North Florida College of Business Administration.

Howard is a former chairman of the District Board of Trustees of Florida Community College at Jacksonville. For more than two decades he has been active in local and regional civic and community affairs. Howard has been a five-time member of the executive committee of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Jacksonville World Trade Center Association and a founder of First Coast Council of Chambers. He has received the Governor's Excellence in Export Achievement Award and is a holder of the Williamson Award for Contributions to Regional Economic Development.