Tucker Johnson Elected President & CEO of US Equestrian Team Foundation
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S. Tucker S. Johnson was elected President and CEO and Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Chairman of the board of the United States Equestrian Team Foundation, a major fund raising organization for American international horse sports and based in Gladstone, New Jersey.
R. Bruce Duchossois was elected Vice President; Philip E. Richter, Treasurer and Eric L. Straus, Secretary. All will serve as officers through 2014.
“This is an exciting time for me to become President of the USET Foundation,” said Tucker Johnson who competed internationally in four-in-hand driving. “I have been fortunate to have been both an athlete who has competed and medaled at the World Equestrian Games, as well as served on the Federation’s Board and as Treasurer of the USET Foundation, so I know how important the funding means to our athletes in their preparation and at international championships. I am committed, in partnership with the tremendous Board of the Foundation, to do everything we can to continue to provide funding that will make this country a force to be reckoned with at the 2014 World Equestrian Games and 2016 Olympic Games.”
Newly elected trustees are William Coleman, Jr. of Virginia, E. Hunter Harrison of Florida, Elizabeth Johnson of Massachusetts, Elizabeth Miller of New York, Jeannie Tisbo of Illinois and and Chrystine J. Tauber of Florida and President of the U.S. Equestrian Federation.
