Tom Hall
Tampa, FL
Tom Hall, chairman of public relations firm Tucker/Hall, is a marketing and communications strategist for corporations and nonprofit organizations in Florida.
Before his time at Tucker/Hall, Hall headed Ensslin & Hall Advertising and Public Relations. This became one of Florida’s largest advertising agencies.
From 1990 to 1995, Hall was founder and chairman of the Governor’s Partnership for a Drug-Free Florida (PDFF). He developed a recognized system of media partnering to run highly effective public service advertising campaigns, which has been adapted similarly by 31 organizations nationally and the partnership for a drug-free America. PDFF also developed the “Drugs Don’t Work” marketing program used nationally by the President’s Drug Advisory Council.
Hall is well known as the founder of the successful Creative Seminar programs, which are now owned by ADWEEK magazine. The seminars have attracted more than 14,000 advertising professionals from the U.S. and Canada. Hall is a former member of the board of ADWEEK’s Creative Seminars in New York.
Hall attended Lake Forest College and holds a bachelor’s degree from Florida Southern College in Lakeland. He is founding chairman of the Advertising Advisory Council of the School of Journalism at the University of Florida. Hall belonged to The Executive Committee, a business education group in the Tampa Bay area, and was a member of the Business Advisory Council of the University of Tampa College of Business. Hall is the former chairman of the Tampa Downtown Partnership, past co-chairman of the Fellows Forum of the University of Tampa, andis chairman of the Florida Aquarium Foundation Board.
To learn more about Tom Hall, visit http://www.tuckerhall.com