Partnership Luncheon - 04/10

Monthly Luncheon

Featuring

Chairman Tom Pauken, Texas Workforce Commission

When: Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Where: Bridlewood Golf Club, 4000 Golf Club Drive, Flower Mound

  Time: Registration begins at 11:30 a.m.  

  Price:  $20 per person before Friday, April 2nd  at 5 p.m. (Chamber members)

$25 per person after Friday, Friday, April 2nd at 5 p.m.  (Chamber members)

$25 per person (Potential members), $30 after Friday, April 2nd

      All new members will have the opportunity to introduce yourselves and your business to the attendees!   This is sure to be a packed house, so please make your reservation as soon as possible.

      Reservations can be made below, or you can make your reservations by calling the Chamber office at office at 972-436-9571 or e-mail Kristen Patterson at kristen@lewisvillechamber.org

Tom Pauken is Chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC), where he has served since being appointed by Governor Rick Perry in March 2008.

He brings decades of public service experience to TWC, having held numerous leadership positions.

In 2007, he served as Chairman of the Governor’s Task Force on Appraisal Reform. He served in the White House Counsel’s Office under President Reagan, and was appointed by the President to serve as Director of ACTION, where he founded the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program. ACTION is now known as AmeriCorps. Mr. Pauken also was instrumental in the implementation of First Lady Nancy Reagan’s Just Say No to Drugs campaign.

Chairman Pauken is a United States Army veteran. He received a commission in Military Intelligence and served in Vietnam as a Province Intelligence Officer and as a senior analyst for the Office of Strategic Research Analysis.

Founder and President of Dallas-based TWP Inc. Chairman Pauken also has served as a board member of various public and private companies. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Knights of Columbus and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Chairman Pauken is the author of two books. The Thirty Years War: The Politics of the Sixties Generation and his new book is entitled Bringing America Home. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a law degree from Southern Methodist University.

He and his wife, the former Ida Ayala, have seven children and 11 grandchildren.