Bio

Jim Tucker started his entrepreneurial career when he formed a buyout group and purchased a major recreational vehicle manufacturer (Nimrod/El.Dorado) becoming President and CEO. His activities have established a track record for finding acquisitions, arranging investor financing and combining the management skills of his associates and employees in critical operating roles to achieve significant business improvements. The businesses have typically been manufacturers or distributors of industrial and consumer products. Jim has been a CEO and/or active director for a wide range of businesses. Distribution businesses include the acquisitions, with his son Scott, of Fastener Distribution Holdings (FDH) and Golden State Medical Suppy (GSMS) he has been an active board member of both companies. Jim was the President, CEO and majority shareholder of USCP-Wesco, a distributor of general merchandise and health and beauty care items sold to retail chain customers. The company's annual sales reached $100 million and was successfully sold to a major grocery wholesaler. Jim and Bill Blaney acquired Ingredients International, a distributor of raw materials to the nutrition, pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics industries. As its Chairman of the Board, Jim was actively involved in the management of the company, and arranged the sale of the business to a major food ingredients distributor. Jim and his partner, Stewart Slykhous, purchased a test equipment manufacturer, which after a series of product line acquisitions, has become Spectral Dynamics. The company is now a world wide leader in its field of instrumentation and software for control, measurement and analysis of vibration signals. Jim, with his partner, Bill Blaney acquired Supreme Castings & Pattern Co., a manufacturer of mil spec aluminum castings. Jim graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in economics; he went on to earn his MBA in finance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He joined A.T. Kearney, a major international consulting firm where he spent five years in the firm's Chicago headquarters offices. In 2004, Jim was the President of ACG ( Association of Corporate Growth ), a worldwide organization with over 14,500 members. www.acg.org He is currently on the Board of ACG's Orange County chapter and was its President in 1997-1998. A resident of Newport Beach, California for more than 46 years, he has been active in civic and educational activities for the community.