NORTHPORT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- President
- Independent Business Development and Management Consultant
Tom Peacock has more than thirty years of military, government and civilian management and leadership experience.
In the military he has commanded ate levels from detachment to battalion. His military careered spanned twenty-one years of active and reserve service. He also served as a battalion adjutant (S-1), a brigade assistant operations officer, a battalion operations officer (S-2), a division assistant operations officer (Assistant S-3), a training battalion commander and a division intelligence officer (S-2). He also served as an information officer on the staff of the Chief of the Office of Reserve Components (CORC) and on the staff of the Chief, Army Reserve as a Reservist on Active Duty. In those positions he was the co-author of "The Army Reserve Soldier" for General Harris Hollis and was Assistant Editor of Army Reserve Magazine. He was the author of the staff study which revised the publication schedule and frequency of Army Reserve Magazine when budget cuts threatened cancellation of the publication.
As a Reservist with the 80th Division (Training) he was part of the First Army 2000 study group which studied the realignment of Reserve Component Forces for the new millennium.
Mr. Peacock began government service as Executive Assistant to Representative David Treen (R. La) where he directed constituent services. This entailed successful liaison with virtually every federal department and agency. After leaving Capitol Hill he served briefly on the staff of the Presidential Clemency Board under President Ford prior to joining the Federal Energy Administration (a predecessor agency to the Department of Energy) as Director of House of Representatives Liaison. In that capacity he directed the activities of the house liaison staff in matters related to legislation, legislative hearings, witness preparation and response to congressional inquiries. After a brief stint in the private sector as Director of energy and natural Resources for the National Association of Manufacturers he returned to the newly formed Department of Energy as Special Assistant to the Director of Congressional Affairs. In that capacity he coordinated the planning and reorganization of the Office of Congressional Affairs. This required integrating the staffs and activities of the dozen component agencies and parts of agencies that comprised the new Department of Energy Office of Congressional Affairs.
When this mission was completed Mr. Peacock joined Wheelabrator Technologies and served as Senior Vice President of Government and Public Affairs for the International Coal Refining Company, a joint venture of Wheelabrator and Air Products and Chemicals. In that position he organized and supervised all government and public affairs activities with full budget and management responsibility. He held that position for five years before joining Wheelabrator corporate headquarters as Director of Business Development for its Waste-to-Energy group. This was a new position for which he drew up the organization plan and job descriptions and directed the activities of the business development staff. Wheelabrator became the most successful company in that business and is the only waste-to- energy company from that era to remain intact. All others have merged, failed or been sold.
Since leaving Wheelabrator in 1995 Mr. Peacock has been an independent business development and management consultant with domestic and international clients. He has negotiated technology license agreements in Japan for several U.S. clients and served as an adjunct instructor in environmental business at Unity College, Unity ME and has served on the board of the Recycled Materials Research Center for the University of New Hampshire.
He is a graduate of Memphis State University and the Army War College (USAR), served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division and retired as a Colonel (O-6) from the Army Reserve.
Mr. Peacock has also served on the board of the Seacoast Red Cross in Portsmouth NH, on his parish finance council and as a volunteer with the Wounded Warriors program at the National Theater Workshop for the Handicapped (NTWH) in Belfast, ME.