Ashton Hayward

Ashton Hayward III is a Pensacola real estate broker/developer and incoming mayor of Pensacola.

Ashton Hayward III
Spouse	An Hayward
Parents	Ashton Jr. & Sandy Hayward
Children	Aiden

For other uses, see Ashton Hayward (disambiguation).

A Pensacola native, Hayward graduated from Catholic High School and received a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University. He worked as a model in Miami, where he met his wife An, then moved to New York, where he worked in a variety of sales and management positions for AT&T and later as advertising director for the Financial Times.

Hayward returned to Pensacola in 2002 and founded a real estate firm (now Pair & Hayward Properties) with Matthew Pair and Allan Bell. The three men, along with Cody Rawson and Russell Weaver, were partners in development company Red Fish Harbor, among whose projects were a $80 million, 244-unit condominium development called Shelter Cove of Perdido that eventually stalled.

Hayward was also Vice-President of Marketing & Business Development for the World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts (WAMMA) co-founded by Pensacola attorney Fred Levin.

He filed to run for mayor of Pensacola on March 23, 2010.

On November 2, 2010, he defeated incumbent Mike Wiggins in the race to become Pensacola's first "strong mayor."

Preceded by: Mike Wiggins

Mayor of Pensacola 2011 – present

Incumbent

Community involvement

• City of Pensacola Planning and Architectural Review Board, member
• City of Pensacola Zoning Board of Adjustment, former member
• WSRE, board of directors
• Northwest Florida Transportation Corridor Authority, appointee
• Pensacola Country Club, board member

External links & references

• AshtonHayward.com – Campaign website
• "Who is Ashton Hayward III?" Pensacola News Journal, March 24, 2010.