● Chairman, Tucker & Associates (T&A) and a certified management consultant; former Assistant Attorney General of the State of Colorado; and former member of the White House Counsel’s office during President Ronald Reagan’s first term.
● Co-Chairman of the International Relations Committee of the U.S. Olympic Committee (1997-2001).
● Co-Chairman of the Trans Atlantic Forum, an organization promoting the expansion of NATO. The Transatlantic Forum held its first conference in Budapest, October 16-18, 1997, with 15 countries participating.
● Member of the Board of Trustees (1997-present) and Board of Directors of People to People International (1999-present) and Chairman of the International Liaison Committee (2000-2006).
● Vice Chairman of the Friends of Slovakia (2001-present), an organization established to assist Slovakia in its efforts to join NATO, attract business, etc.
● August 20, 2000 - Geza Jeszenszky, Hungarian Ambassador to the United States, presented Mr. Tucker with the Hungarian Presidential Citation and Presidential Medal for his work in Hungary.
● On December 16, 2000 Bill Tucker was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, his undergraduate university.
● Chaired and organized the November 23, 2002 Friends of Slovakia Black-Tie Gala Dinner in Bratislava celebrating Slovakia’s invitation to join NATO and the November 9, 2005 Friends of Slovakia Black-Tie Gala Dinner celebrating Slovakia’s economic progress.
William Tucker has successfully assisted clients ranging from the financial services to consumer products industries into the following markets: Argentina, Mexico, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, China, Taiwan, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, England and the Netherlands. Mr. Tucker has also supplied his clients with pertinent information and key contacts in Chile, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and CIS, enabling his clients to enter into joint ventures and other business relationships with a number of foreign companies and/or paving the way for the client's future endeavors in foreign countries.
As a result of Mr. Tucker's expertise and extensive international contacts, our clients have benefited immeasurably by entering foreign markets in the most efficient manner possible. T&A has an extremely fine-tuned methodology of assisting companies into foreign markets and has received recognition from the governments of Taiwan, Hungary and Mexico as "assembling and submitting the most professional applications ever received.”
Mr. Tucker has twenty years of experience in the political and public affairs arena. He has played a major role in presidential elections since 1968. Mr. Tucker assisted in planning the strategy for the selection of delegates from states electing delegates through the convention process for the Vice President Bush, was director of the convention committees at the Republic National Convention (platform, credentials, rules and permanent organization) for the Bush Campaign, and assisted the Vice President in his successful campaign for the Presidency in 1988.
Mr. Tucker planned the delegate selection strategy in states using the convention process for President Ford in 1976, and in this role worked closely with Jim Baker, the former Secretary of State and former Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief of Staff for President Reagan.
Mr. Tucker was Senator Howard Baker's Deputy Campaign Manager in his 1979-1980 presidential bid and developed a working relationship with many of the Republican Senators during the campaign. Senator Lugar, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was the Baker Campaign Chairman and was part of the Strategy group which met regularly with Mr. Tucker.
After Senator Baker dropped out of the race, Tucker ran a section of the country for the Reagan-Bush 1980 campaign. He later served in the Transition Counsel's office during the first Reagan-Bush Administration and then in the White House Counsel's office. Mr. Tucker was asked by President Reagan and Ed Meese, former Attorney General, to prepare a report on the Presidential Transition, which was the first written record of a Presidential Transition in the history of the U.S. This Transition report has subsequently been used by former President Roh Tae Woo of Korea and other foreign countries and the Clinton Transition team.
Mr. Tucker has been recognized by "Congressional Quarterly" as one of the top twelve lobbyists to come out of the Reagan Administration. He has been written up in "Legal Times" as the "Quarterback" of the Chapter 11 companies' efforts in the bankruptcy legislation passed by the 98th Congress after a two year effort.
INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL AND OTHER EXPERIENCE
Mr. Tucker has more than two decades of experience in international politics:
● Former Officer and member of the Board of Directors of the Fund for American Studies (1967-1999).
● Chaired a summer Institute at Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic. This was the first Institute The Fund had sponsored outside the U.S. and it is considered by Charles University to be the most successful educational program in the Czech Republic sponsored by a foreign organization. Mr. Tucker has also been successful in attracting heads of state as keynote speakers at the Charles University program:
● 1995 - Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus, Czech Republic
● 1996 - Former President Lech Walesa, Poland
● 1997 - President Arpad Goncz, Hungary
● 1998 - Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek, Slovenia
● 1999 - Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda, Slovakia
● Former member of the Board of Directors of The American Council of Young Political Leaders.
● Member of the Board of Directors of The International Exchange Council.
● Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Netherlands-American Amity Trust, Inc.
● Chairman of the first Dutch-American Heritage Day Dinner-Balls for November 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997. Congress passed a resolution officially recognizing the day which was signed by President Bush and announced by President Bush at a dinner with Queen Beatrix in the Netherlands.
● Member of the World Board of Governors of the USO—1993-1996
● As a former board member of the American Council of Young Political Leaders, Tucker has been a member of numerous delegations to the USSR, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and West Germany, in which participants conferred with high-level government officials and business executives.
● Member of Hungarian-U.S. Business Council
● Member of World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C.
● He was a member of a U.S. delegation which observed elections in West Germany in 1969.
● Host to a delegation of Japanese Diet members and Administration officials at the Republican National Convention, 1972.
● Representative to a United Nations Special Commission on Prevention of Crime, 1977-1981.
● Briefed delegation of Japanese Diet members and Administration officials at 1980 Republican Convention in Dallas.
● Host to various Japanese Diet study groups visiting the United States.
● Mr. Tucker was a member of the international observation team sent to monitor elections in the Philippines in February, 1986.
● In February 1986, Tucker organized and accompanied a delegation of government and business leaders to Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. In August, 1987, Tucker organized and accompanied a similar group to Australia, Singapore, Korea, and Hong Kong. Both groups conferred with cabinet-level officials and leading business representatives.
● Tucker was an unofficial observer during the December, 1987 elections in Korea, acted as an adviser to the Korean Government in the transition from Chun, Doo Hwan to President Roh Tae Woo, and was a guest of the government at the inaugural of President Roh.
● Tucker was invited to the Taiwan during the week of May 21, 1988 to chair a delegation from each of the Republican presidential campaigns speaking on presidential campaigns in the United States. The group spoke before academicians, think tanks, study groups and governmental officials in the ROC.
● Mr. Tucker was the member of a U.S. delegation, led by White House Counsel, A.B. Culvahouse, to Moscow in January, 1988, following the U.S./U.S.S.R. summit.
● Mr. Tucker was invited to join the official U.S. delegation of observers assigned to the October, 1988 elections in Chile, but was unable to attend due to business commitments.
● Member of the U.S. delegation which observed the elections in the Taiwan on December 2, 1989.
● Assisted with the state visit of the Korean President, Roh, Tae Woo to Washington, D.C. in October, 1989.
● Mr. Tucker acted as an advisor to one of the political parties in the March-April, 1990 Hungarian elections and the party is now a part of the coalition government.
● Mr. Tucker attended the International Congress on Trade, Cooperation and Investment, Prague, Czechoslovakia, February 6-8, 1991, and February 1992.
● Tucker was one of a select group of people invited to participate in the White House Conference on Economies in Transition: Management Training and Market Economics Education in Central & Eastern Europe on February 26-27, 1991.
● Co-founder and President of the Czech and Slovak American Amity Association founded in April, 1991. Chairman is Ambassador Julian Niemczyk.
● Mr. Tucker was chosen by the Kenan Institute as a panelist to speak on developments in Central and Eastern Europe in April, 1991.
● Assisted the Embassy of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic and presidential office with the state visit of President Vaclav Havel to Washington, D.C. in October 1991.
● Briefed a number of foreign delegations on the 1992 Presidential elections.
● Mr. Tucker has also worked in and advised a number of Congressional and Senatorial campaigns in the United States.
● Mr. Tucker has participated in polling, in both the formulation of questions and the analysis of results, at both presidential and state-wide races.
● At the invitation of President Kovac of the Slovak Republic, Mr. Tucker was an official participant in the 50th Anniversary celebration of the Slovak Uprising against the Nazis in August, 1994.
● Mr. Tucker was retained by ODS Chairman Klaus (Czech Republic) and ODS to assist in that party's re-election efforts in 1994 by organizing an ODS Chairman's fund raising dinner modeled after the presidential dinners in the U.S.
● Mr. Tucker was Director of Convention Activities for Steve Forbes at the Republican National Convention in 1996.
● Mr. Tucker delivered lectures at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) on presidential campaigns and political parties in the U.S. in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999.
● Co-Chaired a delegation of Republicans and Democrats as observers to the Presidential election in Azerbaijan in October 1998.
● November 18, 1999 - Gave a lecture to 35 Philippino Mayors at the College of Democracy on the American Political System and Presidential Campaigns in the United States.
● September 2004 – Presented a paper at a U.S. Department of the Interior Conference on Business Opportunities in the Pacific Islands.
● Mr. Tucker has been named to:
● Who's Who in the International Community
● Who's Who in American Law
● Who's Who Worldwide
● Who's Who in American Politics
● Who's Who in Finance and Industry
● Who's Who in Colorado
● 2,000 Men of Achievement
● Community Leaders of America
● National Register of Prominent Americans
● Personalities of the West & Midwest
PAPERS PRESENTED
● November 13-14, 2001 - Presented a paper on the “Cluster Concept for Economic Development” at the Asia Pacific Cooperation Forum on Hainan Island, China.
● July 14-15, 2004 – Presented a paper entitled “Doing Business in Libya” at a conference in Washington, DC sponsored by New-Fields Inc.
● T&A is recognized as one of the most knowledgeable consulting firms in the U.S. on Iraq reconstruction and as a result Mr. Tucker has been invited to make a presentation at the following conferences on Iraq reconstruction:
1. Conference sponsored by the American Iraqi Chamber of Commerce in Amman, October 3-4, 2003.
2. Rebuilding Iraq conference in Arlington, Virginia, sponsored by New-Fields, August 28-29, 2003
3. September 17, 2003 – Energy Advocates Conference on Iraq in Washington, DC
4. Iraqi reconstruction conference in Istanbul sponsored by the Turkish American Council October 2, 2003
5. Conference on Iraq Reconstruction sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce (JABA), in Amman, Jordan, October 22-23, 2003
6. Second Rebuilding Iraq conference in Arlington, Virginia, sponsored by New-Fields, December 3-4, 2003
7. Outreach 2004 Conference on Iraq in Amman, January 10-13, 2004.
8. DEIK Executive Committee and American Turkish Council Iraq Reconstruction Conference, January 28- 29, 2004 in Washington, DC.
9. Equity International Conference on Iraq Reconstruction in Washington, DC, February 9-10, 2004.
10. Third Rebuilding Iraq Conference in Arlington, Virginia, sponsored by New-Fields, February 25-26, 2004.
11. Iraq Procurement Conference in London sponsored by Windrush Communications, April 26-28, 2004.
EDUCATION
● Bachelor of Science in Engineering
● Juris Doctor in Law
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