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Ken Hagerty
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Ken Hagerty is vice president for policy of Renewing American Leadership. He is also founder and president of the Global Venture Investors Foundation, which is dedicated to developing American-style venture capital communities in emerging economies.
Previously, Mr. Hagerty founded the Global Venture Investors Association (GVIA), which produced international conferences that introduced overseas governments and investors to the financial and developmental benefits of investing in American venture capital firms. GVIA's global conferences were co-hosted by twenty-two venture capital associations from ten countries. Sponsors included: APEC (the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation—a consortium of 21 pacific rim economies), The Economist, NASDAQ, and prominent venture capital service providers.
Earlier Mr. Hagerty organized and directed the Coalition for American Equity Expansion, a lobbying group of 58 companies that helped lead the campaign to retain favorable accounting treatment for employee stock options.
Mr. Hagerty built and managed the Government Operations program of the American Electronics Association for eleven years. In that capacity he managed the legislative campaigns that drafted and enacted the first “supply-side” tax cut—the Steiger capital gains cut, the R&D Tax Credit and the Incentive Stock Option. He opened AEA's Washington office and managed it for six years.
Previously, Mr. Hagerty served Presidents Nixon and Ford as Deputy for Congressional Relations in the White House Office of Management and Budget. He was a legislative assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives for Congressmen Bill Whitehurst (R-VA), VicVeysey (R-CA) and Don Brotzman (R-CO).
Mr. Hagerty is active in his church at both the parish and denominational levels. He has served three terms on his parish vestry, chaired adult education for twenty years, and served on the executive committee of his national convocation.
He holds a J.D. from Georgetown University and is licensed in Virginia and the District of Columbia. He is a graduate of Oregon State University and the Stanford Executive Institute.