Board Members

James D. Jameson
CEO, LIDCO, Inc.
CEO Member
WPO Member

James D. Jameson is a founder and/or major shareholder of a number of companies both in the United States and abroad. His companies’ interests are in the fields of aerospace, agriculture, publishing, book distribution and real estate. Collectively, this group has over 3,000 employees and operates in 14 countries of the world. The companies are privately held. The list of companies include Glenair, Inc., LIDCO, Inc., the Luxembourg Cambridge Holding Group S.A., and Rancho Los Lagos. Most recently, Mr. Jameson has established a very successful publishing group of companies under Luxembourg Cambridge Holding Group in Poland, Ukraine, Hungary and China. These publishing companies concentrate in the professional, reference and educational sectors. Mr. Jameson joined the Board of Advisors of Lehman Brothers Merchant Bank and Global Private Equity in 2005.

Mr. Jameson is presently a member of the Advisory Councils for the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the World Presidents’ Organization (a graduate organization to the Young Presidents’ Organization), the Reason Foundation (a policy think tank interested in free market solutions to societal problems), and the Bishops School. He spent 8 years on the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Americas, an independent non-profit institution devoted to finding effective responses to some of the major challenges facing the countries of the Western Hemisphere. He was Chairman of this Institute, but resigned to enter the United States Government as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development in the first Bush Administration. In that capacity, he was an ex-officio member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and on the Board of Directors of the Export Import Bank. He also served as a member of the President’s Export Council and on the Board of the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States.

Mr. Jameson also spent several years as a member of the U.S. Polish Action Commission chaired by Zbignew Brezezinski. This Commission has been involved in the economic development of Poland and is composed of both United States and Polish members. He was a member of the Millennium Council. This Council met yearly at the requests of President Pastrana and Uribe in Cartagena, Colombia to offer insight from business leaders into issues related to the economic development of Colombia. Mr. Jameson served as the International President of the Young Presidents’ Organization in 1989/90. This group of 7,000 chief executive officers under the age of 50 in over 70 countries of the world provides continuing education and networking for its members.

Mr. Jameson was selected for a United States Presidential Business Mission by President Bush in 1990 to attend the Helsinki Summit and to go to Moscow to discuss economic development with President Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Shevardnaze.

Mr. Jameson graduated from Stanford University with both a B.A. and M.B.A. He is married, has two children and resides in Rancho Santa Fe, California.