Jeff Tucker

Jeff Tucker is the founder of the Florida public relations firm Tucker/Hall. Tucker specializes in high-profile crises matters—crisis communications strategies, litigation support in both criminal and civil matters and complex corporate matters. In addition, Tucker serves clients in the areas of corporate reputation management and high-profile media relations.

Jeff Tucker is accredited by the Institute for Crisis Management, Louisville, Ky. Tucker completed the Harvard Law School/Consensus Building Institute curriculum on negotiated settlements. Some of Jeff’s high-profile successes include:

• Writing and executing a crisis plan for Avianca Airline’s petroleum subsidiary in Bogota when it was the victim of terrorism;
• Developing reputation management strategies for the largest hospice organization in the nation while the organization provided end-of-life care for Terri Schiavo;
• Working with legal teams involved in an on-going U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Senate investigations into evangelical church groups in America.

Before his time at Tucker/Hall, Jeff spent two decades as a financial reporter, columnist, editor and publisher. Tucker began his career at the New York Times-owned Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune. Tucker was a business reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a financial columnist with the Journal of Commerce. Tucker's work has appeared in Barron’s Financial Weekly, The Financial Times of London and Institutional Investor.

Jeff is known in Florida media circles as the former managing editor and later deputy publisher of Florida Trend, the country's oldest monthly statewide business magazine.