Tony Coelho
Member, Board of Directors

Tony was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978 from California and served as Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee from 1981 to 1986; then as the first-ever elected Majority Whip from 1987 to 1989. During his ten years in the House, he authored the Americans with Disabilities Act. Tony also served in senior positions on the Agriculture, Interior and Administration Committees. In 1999, he served as the General Chairman for Vice President Gore's Presidential Campaign.

After leaving Congress in 1989, Tony joined Wertheim Schroder & Company, Inc., an investment-banking firm in New York, where he served as a managing director from 1989 to 1995. From 1990 to 1995, he was president and CEO of Wertheim Schroder Investment Services, a firm he grew to $5 billion of investments. Schroder Bank purchased WSIS in 1995. Later that year, he formed ETC w/TCI, an education and training technology company in Washington, D.C., where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until it was sold in late 1997.

Tony continues to devote time to public service. He served as Chairman of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities from 1994 to 2001. In 1998, President Clinton appointed him as Vice Chair to the National Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities and as Co-Chair to the U.S. Census Monitoring Board. He served as U.S. Commissioner General to the 1998 World Exposition in Lisbon, Portugal. In 1995, he was a member of the Presidential Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community.