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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Edward R. Tinsley |
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Capitan, New Mexico 88316, United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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| Contributor | User 13 |
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Dec 13, 2012 01:43am |
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| Info | Experience in Washington
Ed Tinsley served as Chairman of the Board of the National Restaurant Association for the administrative year, 2006-2007 ending his term in June 2007. During his term as an officer, Tinsley traveled nearly 300,000 miles representing the industry in the United States, China, Mexico, and Turkey, as well as numerous trips to the headquarters of the National Restaurant Association in Washington DC. Tinsley has served continuously since his election in 1996 on the national board representing the state of New Mexico. He has served on numerous committees of the Association, including the Board’s Executive Committee. He has chaired the Finance, Technology, and the International Relations Committees, and served as a Trustee and Vice Chairman of the Political Action Committee (NRA PAC) and a Trustee for the Education Foundation. He also was the exchange director to Mexico’s restaurant association for two years during which time he attended their meetings to promote greater awareness and business opportunities between Mexico and the United States. The restaurant industry is the largest private sector employer of twelve million eight hundred thousand (12.8 million) people with over 950,000 locations, and annual sales in excess of $500 Billion Dollars.
Ranching and Family
Ed Tinsley was recently appointed by the President of the United States, President George W. Bush, to serve as a Trustee on the Valles Caldera Board of Trustees. He was recently elected as Vice Chairman of the Board.
Ed Tinsley, and his ranch, the Flying W Diamond Ranch Inc. of Capitan, New Mexico, are engaged in an equestrian and residential development called Ranchos de Caballos LLC. The ranch has been in the Tinsley family for fifty (50) years.
The Tinsley family continues to live on and operate a cattle ranch located in Lincoln County, New Mexico, and is active in the oil and gas industry in the southeastern part of New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana. Ed has been married to Meredith for 31 years and they have two children: Edward, who graduated from the University of Southern California and the London School of Economics and is currently attending Brooklyn Law School, and Ede, who is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and currently working for The Advisory Board headquartered in Washington DC. Ed and Meredith attend the Methodist Church in Capitan, New Mexico.
The Restaurant Industry
Ed Tinsley is the owner of Tinsley Hospitality Group, LLC. Tinsley Hospitality Group, LLC is a restaurant intellectual property company and master franchisor of K-BOB’S Steakhouses headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico. K-BOB’S franchises operations of 19 restaurants located in Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. The company is headed up by food service veteran Mike Myers, previously the President of the publicly held Backyard Burgers of Memphis, Tennessee. The company is expanding under the leadership of Myers, anticipating opening six (6) new units in 2008.
Ed Tinsley was recognized as the Texas Cattle Feeders Association Beef Merchandiser of 1992, received the Silver Spoon Award for community service, was inducted into the New Mexico 4-H Hall of Fame, and has been a featured participant in various industry forums.
Tinsley has provided expert testimony on behalf of the restaurant industry before U.S. House of Representatives’ Committees.
Personal Information
Ed Tinsley is a graduate of the University of Texas with a degree in accounting. He earned a law degree from Texas Tech in 1977 and is a current member of the State Bar in New Mexico and Texas. Following graduation, he pursued a career with a law firm located in Austin, Texas. The Tinsleys subsequently purchased the rights to develop Schlotzsky’s Sandwich Shops for New Mexico and southern Colorado. In 1991, Mr. Tinsley purchased K-BOB’S Steakhouses.
He has served on a number of non-profit boards, including the Carrie Tingley Children’s Hospital Foundation as its past president, the International Braford Cattle Association, the Texas American Bank Board in Midland, Texas, and in 2005 was one of two National Restaurant Association Board members selected to serve as an Air Force Hennessy Award Traveler, duty that required spending five weeks evaluating and assisting the top military foodservice operations on US Air Force bases worldwide.
In 2002, Tinsley made an unsuccessful bid for Congress from the 2nd District of New Mexico; however, he has remained active in the New Mexico Republican Party, serving continuously on the State Executive committee, assisting in a fundraising role for Republican candidates and working on business related legislative issues.
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