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James F. “Curt” Curtis III

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PRESIDENT/CEO

After more than 30 years at the executive level in sports marketing & management at IMG (Senior Staff Vice-President, Sales & Marketing, NA), Octagon (Senior Executive Vice-President, Worldwide CMO) and MarComm Partners (President, CEO), Curt has taken up his next challenge; retirement!!

He currently serves as a Trustee of The Boys’ Club of New York (Founded 1876) as well as on the Board of his alma mater, Middlesex School (1901 Concord, MA) where he is also a member of the School’s Athletic Hall of Fame (Inducted 2011).

He served as Team Leader of both the 1971 & 1972 U.S. National Parachute Teams and was a U.S. National and World Parachuting Champion in 1977 as a member of Mirror Image/US Team.

Curt was inducted into the International Skydiving Hall of Fame, Class of 2013, and The Hall of Fame of Parachuting (2018). He is an Honorary Golden Knight (2017) and a recipient of USPA’s Lifetime Achievement Award (1983). On the ground, he served as an assistant executive director, national director, president and chairman of the board of the US Parachute Association and additionally was named US Delegate to the CIP (International Parachuting Commission) of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. He was educated at Middlesex School and Boston University and completed his military service with the United States Marine Corps.

Curt is Chair of the Executive Committee and serves as an ex-officio member of all other Trustee Committees.

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