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Jack Kemp has enjoyed considerable success and longevity in all three of his careers - first professional football, then politics and now business. Mr. Kemp served from 1993 to 2004 as Co-Director of the public policy institute Empower America, which he founded with former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick. Today, Mr. Kemp serves on a number of corporate boards and travels extensively in the U.S. and around the world for lectures as well as business. He is a nationally syndicated columnist focusing on economic issues, trade and foreign policy, while also appearing on a variety of political talk shows. Throughout his career, Mr. Kemp has been one of the nation's leading advocates of economic growth, free markets, free trade, tax simplification and lower tax rates on both work and investment. He is also the first and strongest advocate for revitalizing our inner cities by establishing Enterprise Zones to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation and expanding homeownership among public housing tenants. Both in and out of public office, Jack Kemp has been an important contributor in nurturing democratic capitalism not only in the US , but also throughout the world. Mr. Kemp, who ran for President in 1988, gained further prominence in the national spotlight in 1996, when he was selected to be the Republican Party's candidate for Vice President of the United States .
Prior to co-founding Empower America, Mr. Kemp served four years as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George H.W. Bush and proved to be one of our nation's most innovative leaders in that role. Before his appointment to the Cabinet, Mr. Kemp represented the Buffalo area and Western New York for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Among his many accomplishments in Congress is the 1981 Kemp-Roth tax cut bill, the impact of which is still felt today. A Director for Oracle since 1995, Mr. Kemp has become intimately involved in many facets of the technology economy. He was a founding Director of Proxicom in 1995. Additionally, Mr. Kemp has been a key strategic advisor to many corporations and serves on the Board for Hawk Corporation, InPhonic and IDT. He also is an advisory board member of Toyota's Diversity Initiative, Thomas Weisel Partners, a merchant banking firm in San Francisco, Thayer Capital Partners in Washington, DC and Westbury Partners of Westbury, NY.
Mr. Kemp co-founded the AFL Players Association in 1964 and was elected president for five terms and currently serves as the Vice-President for NFL Charities. He is also the Chair for Habitat for Humanity's "More than Houses" campaign, serves as a Board member for Howard University, as well as for the Schools of Public Policy at Pepperdine and UCLA. Ambassador Andrew Young and Jack serve as Board members of Young's Goodworks International.
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