Tony’s career in chamber management began more than thirty years ago as a membership specialist for the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce. Since then he has worked with metropolitan chambers in Arizona and California, and served five years as Executive Director of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Business Association, the nation’s first GLBT chamber of commerce.
After an eight-year hiatus Tony returned to chamber work in 2005 when he was chosen to serve on the first elected board of the North Texas Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) Chamber of Commerce. In 2007 he became the Chamber’s first president & CEO.
Tony is a graduate of the US Chamber’s Institute for Organization Management (IOM) and is one of only 530 chamber leaders, and the only LGBT chamber leader, to receive the Certified Chamber Executive (CCE) designation from the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives. He currently serves a member of the US Chamber Institute Board of Trustees, is Board President of the North Texas Chamber of Commerce Executives Association, and serves on the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) board of directors.
He previously served as chair of the US Chamber Institute West Board of Regents, as chair of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Affiliate Chamber Council and on the Board and Executive Committee of Visit Dallas (previously the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau). Tony is a member of the Texas Chamber of Commerce Executives (TCCE), as well as the Leadership San Francisco, and Leadership Dallas alumni associations.
Tony recently married his partner of 23 years, Greg Wallace. They live in the Lakewood Trails neighborhood of Dallas with their cats, Sydney & Gizmo.
