Current Board Members
David E. Huntley
(Honorary Board Member)
David E Huntley was born in London, England. As an engineer he worked in
the UK Aerospace industry before moving to Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in technical management for
a major British company.
In 1968 he moved to South Africa where he started a
manufacturing company and a trading company. During this period his Group
also acted as an agent for a major Japanese trading house, C.Itoh Corporation.
In 1978 Mr. Huntley sold his
business interests and moved to the USA. He formed Huntley Associates
(Dallas) Inc., in 1979 to conduct business as international
corporate consultants. These activities include a division that is
engaged in executive recruiting and contract engineering for hi-tech
industry. The consulting division provides local and overseas clients
with global strategies in international markets.
David Huntley was the
co-founder (with Paul Margotsen) and a member
of the original steering committee of the British-American Commerce
Association of North Texas. He retired from the Board of Directors in
2001 after serving for 17 years since inception in 1984, acting in
various capacities including Chairman of the Executive Committee, and as
President of the organization. He has been awarded an Honorary Life
membership to the organization and to its Board of Directors in
recognition of his services for the promotion of British and American
business interests in North Texas and the Dallas/Fort Worth region in
particular.
He has been a guest speaker at
various forums including a World Marketing Conference in Houston in 1984. He has been a guest
speaker at the University of Texas in Arlington that hosts the American
Enterprise Institute, and a member of the Speakers Bureau for the Dallas
World Cup '94 Soccer effort.
In 1996 Mr. Huntley was chosen
as an expert on Japanese/American trade negotiations to appear on a panel
(Strategic Alliances) with Marjory Searing, U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Japan. The panel was part of the
"Sun & Star" three months' business and cultural exchange
program in Texas sponsored by the Japanese
government, the State of Texas and city governments.
He has also appeared on
several occasions as a guest panelist on Public Television. He was a
guest on the nationally syndicated McCuistion
show, where Mr. Huntley was invited to participate in a discussion on
Japanese/American business issues. Other panelists on the show were
senior executives of two major American corporations together with the
Consul-General of Japan and a professor of Asian
business at Southern Methodist University. His most recent appearance on
the McCuistion Show was June 20th 2004 entitled, “Outsourcing:
Lost Jobs or Positive Free Trade?” Fellow guest panelists included
a Senior Economist from the Federal Reserve Bank, an Executive Council
Member of the AFL-CIO from Washington D.C.
Mr. Huntley in his capacity as
President of the British-American Commerce Association, in 1990,
organized an event that brought Mr. John Cleese,
the TV and film actor to Dallas. The monetary proceeds of
this event were presented by Mr. Huntley to the Chairman of the World Cup
Soccer Dallas '94 Steering Committee, at City Hall in the presence of the
then Mayor, the late Annette Strauss. This seed money was the first raised by any business organization in Dallas and helped the city to bid
and win as a major host site and main broadcast center for the World Cup.
Most recently in 2005, Mr.
Huntley was honored with an appointment to the American Advisory Board of
The Historical Royal Palaces (HRP) of the United Kingdom. He will assist the HRP in identifying
American patrons willing to help the 501(c)(3) charity in its mission of
the maintenance care, conservation and presentation to the public of the
unoccupied royal palaces- HM Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace,
Kensington Palace State Apartments, the Banqueting House at Whitehall and
Kew Palace with Queen Charlotte's Cottage.
Mr. Huntley can be reached at jobs@huntley.com and the corporate web site is
www.huntley.com
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