Internal Directors
Thomas L. Phillips
Thomas L. Phillips is Chairman and President of Phillips International, Inc. In January of 1974, he launched the company with two newsletters, three employees and a $1,000 investment. From that entrepreneurial start-up, the company has grown into one of the foremost multimedia publishing firms in America, with a rapidly expanding Internet Business. The firms 500 employees produce widely respected newsletters and on-line information services for the consumer investment and health marketplaces. Phillips International is also recognized for its thriving vitamin and nutritional supplement business. The company closed calendar 2000 with more than $350 millions in sales.
In 1993, Tom also founded Eagle Publishing, Inc., dedicated to conservative and pro-American ideals. He remains Chairman of Eagle Publishing, Inc.
Tom was a founding member of the Newsletter Publishers Association, and served as President of the Association. In 1989, he was honored as NPA National Publisher of the Year. In 1994, he was elected as the first member of the Newsletter Publishers Hall of Fame.
Tom serves on the Board of Young Americas Foundation, sponsor of the Ronald Reagan Leadership Program. He is on the Board of the Fund for American Studies and Chairman of the Board of Visitors for the Institute on Political Journalism. Tom also serves on the Board of the National Legal Center for Public Interest. He is also a member of the Republican National Committees Regents Program, and the Advisory Board of the Claremont Institute. Tom is Chairman of the Chairmans Council of the Republican Party of Orange County, California, and a member of the World Presidents Organization, an international organization of business leaders.
Tom has always been a vigorous supporter of youth. He currently serves on the Board of Junior Achievement of Metropolitan Washington, and the Board of the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
Jeffrey J. Carneal
President
Eagle Publishing, Inc.
In 1993, Mr. Tom Phillips tapped Mr. Carneal to launch Eagle Publishing. As Eagle’s founding president, Mr. Carneal has led the company to significant growth in sales and influence—helping fulfill Mr. Phillips’ vision for a publishing enterprise built on solid business principles, providing philosophically conservative, free-market-oriented leadership.
Mr. Carneal’s publishing career began with California-based Target, Inc. He joined that firm while earning his Economics degree, rising quickly to become the newsletter publishing firm’s president—a position he held for several years.
External Directors
Alfred S. Regnery
Alfred S. Regnery is President of Regnery Publishing, Inc. (Book Publishers), formerly Regnery Gateway, Inc., since 1993 a subsidiary of Eagle Publishing, Inc.. Regnery Publishing was founded in Chicago by Alfreds father, Henry Regnery, in 1947. Alfred is also a practicing attorney and is Of Counsel to the Washington Law firm of Keller and Heckman. He served as Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Land and Natural Resources Division, both at the U.S. Department of Justice, between 1981 and 1986. Previously he served as Minority Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee and Chief Minority Counsel, Administrative Practice and Procedure Subcommittee. Prior to government service he practiced law for six years in Madison, Wisconsin.
Mr. Regnery serves on the boards of directors of several corporations and non-profit organizations, including The Washington Bach Consort (President), Institute for International Studies, The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, The Phillips Foundation, and American Foreign Policy Council. He is chairman of the Foundation for American Studies, Washington, D.C., a grant making charitable foundation.
Mr. Regnery is a graduate of University of Wisconsin Law School and Beloit College.
Thomas A. Fuentes
Senior Vice President, Tait & Associates, Inc.
Mr. Fuentes holds a BA in Government from Chapman University. He is a Director of Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. In addition, he is a Director of the Claremont Institute and Chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County, California. He is the former Director of Communications of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County. He joined the Eagle Board in 1995.
William Lee Hanley Jr.
Chairman, Lexington Management Group, Inc.
Mr. Hanley joined Hanley Petroleum and Lexington Management Group in 1964. He was Chairman of the Board for Greenwich Hospital, served as Chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and served as Chapter Chairman of the Young Presidents’ Organization (Metro New York Chapter). Mr. Hanley has served as Director on several boards including Regnery Gateway, Inc. and the Brick Institute of America. He was a trustee of the Boys Club of New York and is currently a trustee of the Boys and Girls Club of Greenwich. He is Director and Treasurer of the J.M. Foundation. Mr. Hanley joined the Eagle Board in 1996.
Pat Sajak
For the past twenty years, Pat Sajak has been the host of televisions Wheel of Fortune the number one rated program in syndicated television for twenty years running. Pat is also joining Fox News Channel as host of Pat Sajak Weekend, a one-hour celebrity and newsmaker driven talk show. Pat has three Emmys, a Peoples' Choice Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, attended Columbia College in Chicago, joined the Army, and served as an Armed Forces Radio announcer in Vietnam. In 1989, Pat began doing a late-night talk show on CBS. While it ran less than a year and a half, he calls it the most enjoyable 18 months of his career. It was during the run of that show that he met Lesly Brown, who became his wife on New Year's Eve of 1989. They have two children.