Jeff Tucker is the founder of Tucker/Hall. He is an accredited crisis communications specialist. In addition, he serves clients in the areas of business planning, corporate image management and media relations.

Prior to establishing the firm in 1990, Tucker spent nine years with the magazine division of the Times Publishing Co., publishers of the St. Petersburg Times newspaper, Florida Trend and Georgia Trend business magazines and Congressional Quarterly, a Washington-based weekly magazine covering the U.S. Congress.

Tucker was Deputy Publisher of Florida Trend magazine, the oldest statewide monthly business magazine in the U.S. While Deputy Publisher, Tucker was responsible for Florida Trend Affiliate Operations, developing new business and overseeing the marketing of Florida Trend books, newsletters, customized conferences and syndicated radio programming in Florida and Georgia. While he was Managing Editor of the magazine, Florida Trend won 60 state, regional and national awards for reporting and graphic design, including three consecutive General Excellence Awards as the best regional business magazine in America given annually by the Association of Area Business Publications in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Tucker began his career at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, was a business writer with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and was a financial columnist with the Journal of Commerce, a division of Knight-Ridder newspapers based in New York, prior to joining Florida Trend. His work has appeared in such publications as Barron's Financial Weekly, The Financial Times of London and Institutional Investor. Tucker is currently a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Telecommunications Task Force. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Tampa Museum of Art, and for several years he has served as an advisor to the Florida Council of Economic Education.

He was educated at New College at Sarasota, Florida, New York University and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is accredited for crisis counseling by the National Institute of Crisis Management.

Contact Jeff Tucker by e-mail.