Strategic Advisors

KCOMM has partnerships and/or affiliations with the following people and organizations designed to bring added value to our clients.

George L. Argyros

George L. Argyros was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Andorra on November 21, 2001 and presented his credentials to King Juan Carlos I on December 13, 2001.

Until his appointment, Ambassador Argyros was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arnel & Affiliates, a prominent U.S. West Coast diversified investment company, with corporate offices located in Costa Mesa, California. He was also a General Partner in Westar Capital, a private investment company. From 1981-1987, he was co-owner of AirCal and from 1981-1989 he was owner of the Seattle Mariners Baseball Club of the American League for nine full seasons.

Mr. Argyros has also been a member of the Board of Directors for Rockwell International Corporation (NYSE); First American Corporation (NYSE); DST Systems, Inc. (NYSE); The Newhall Land and Farming Company (NYSE); Tecstar; Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Harper Leather Goods, Inc.; and Verteq, Inc.

Ambassador Argyros formerly served as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations for the U.S. Trade Ambassador, resigning that position in 1990, when President Bush appointed him to the board of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FreddieMac). He completed his term on the FreddieMac Board in March 1993.

Frank Luntz
    Luntz Research Companies

Frank Luntz is one of the most honored communication professionals in America today. Time magazine named him one of “50 of America’s most promising leaders aged 40 and under” and he is the “hottest pollster” in America according to the Boston Globe. Frank was named one of the four “Top Research Minds” by Business Week and was the winner of the coveted Washington Post “Crystal Ball” award for being the most accurate pundit in 1992. Radio personality Don Imus had this to say about Frank: “He’s a game show host with these undecided voters in focus groups. We think he’s great.” Said comedian Al Franken: “Asking Frank Luntz if he understands public opinion is like asking Julia Child if she knows how to make a soufflé.”

Frank has written, supervised, and conducted more than a thousand surveys and focus groups for corporate and public affairs clients in 11 countries since forming The Luntz Research Companies in 1992. More than a dozen Fortune 100 companies have turned to Dr. Luntz for communication guidance, from Merrill Lynch to Federal Express, Disney to American Express, from AT&T to Pfizer, from Kroger supermarkets to McDonalds to the entire soft drink and motion picture industries.

Frank has also been retained by Internet innovators like Ebay, MP3.com and 1-800-Flowers.com, as well as some of the largest business associations, from the Chamber of Commerce to the National Association of Manufacturers to the Business Roundtable.

More media outlets have turned to Dr. Luntz to understand the hopes and fears of Americans than to any other political pollster. In the 2000 election cycle, Frank conducted almost two-dozen focus groups for MSNBC and CNBC, including live sessions following each night of both party conventions and presidential debates. His reoccurring segments on MSNBC/CNBC, “100 Days, 1000 Voices” won the coveted Emmy Award in 2001. He was a primary night and election night commentator for The News with Brian Williams on MSNBC in 2000 and continues those duties for Hardball in 2004. Frank has conducted focus group sessions for all three networks and two of the three cable news channels. Previously, he has conducted focus groups for The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, PBS, and the BBC.

Frank graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an honors Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science, and was named a Thouron Fellow. He received his Doctorate in Politics at the age of 25 from Oxford University. He spoke for 24 straight hours as part of the Oxford Union Society’s Guinness World Book of Records debate. In the spring of 1993, Frank was named a Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, the second youngest individual ever to receive this honor.

Richard Reisman
   Publisher
   Orange County Business Journal

Richard Reisman is the publisher and Chief Executive Officer of the Orange County Business Journal. Published weekly, the Business Journal is the primary source for Orange County’s business news and is read weekly by 60,000 Orange County executives, managers, and professionals. It is the second largest business publication in the State of California.

For the past nine years, Reisman has also produced and hosted a television program in connection with Cox Cable, The Cable Business Journal. This interview-format program plays on three additional cable systems in Orange County.

Mario Rodriguez

Mario Rodriguez, raised in San Clemente, spent his youth playing football on the front lawn at President Richard Nixon's Western White House. Mario soon became a Nixon volunteer and has been working for the past 30 years as a Republican Party leader with highly impressive credentials, being called “California’s most powerful Latino Republican.”

After being elected Vice Chairman of the California Republican Party in February, 2003, Mario was named to be President George W. Bush's 2004 campaign chairman for the Pacific region states of California, Nevada, Hawaii and Alaska.

Previously, he served as Second Assistant Secretary of the CRP - a position he was asked to fulfill when Rosario Marin left the post to become United States Treasurer.

As owner of a successful framing and promotions company, Mario’s activist interests extend well beyond the Republican Party as well. Mario is Chairman of the national Latino Coalition Foundation, a mainstream, nationwide organization that advocates common sense business legislation and works to match small businesses

with public sector opportunities. Mario is also President of the Hispanic Business Roundtable of California and co-founder of Hispanic 100 of Orange County. Mario once worked to elect the only Republican as national Chairman of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).

George Wall

Mr. Wall is a senior executive with a focus on acquisitions, sales and reorganizations; venture capital transactions; securities including numerous public and private offerings; health care; broad-based tax planning including real estate development and financing; real estate acquisition and exchanges; preparation of loan documentation for lenders; and franchising registration. His Martindale-Hubbell legal rating is AV, the highest possible.

Mr. Wall is active in the business and civic community as a director of the Forum for Corporate Directors, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) and the New Majority, which he co-founded. He also has been a director of ANFI Inc. (a NASDAQ company, where he chaired the special committee evaluating an acquisition proposal) and the Orange County Museum of Art.

Mr. Wall received his J.D. in 1974 from the University of Miami, after receiving a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1971. In 1979-1980, he completed the University of San Diego Tax Program and during that time served as research assistant to Yale Professor Boris Bittker on his five-volume “Treatise on Federal Income Taxation.”