Roles
Jack Kemp, Chairman
Jack Kemp serves as Chairman of USA Football. Kemp played 13 years as a professional football quarterback. He was captain of the San Diego Chargers from 1960-1962.
Kemp was also the captain of the Buffalo Bills, the team he quarterbacked to the American Football League Championship in 1964 and 1965, when he was named the league's most valuable player. He co-founded the American Football League Players Association and was five times elected president of that Association.
Following his career in football, Kemp represented the Buffalo area and western New York for 18 years in the United States House of Representatives from 1971-1989.
Kemp served from February 1989 to January 1993 as the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He was the author of the Enterprise Zones legislation to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation in urban America and continues to advocate the expansion of home ownership among the poor through resident management and ownership of public and subsidized housing.
Following his tenure as U.S. HUD Secretary, Kemp co-founded Empower America, a public policy and advocacy organization. In August of 1996, Kemp received the Republican Party's nomination for Vice President and since then has campaigned nationally for reform of taxation, Social Security and education.
In September 2001, Kemp helped form a new non-partisan, non-profit think tank, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies to counter the terrorist propaganda efforts, and he has been writing a weekly syndicated column for the Copley News Service nationwide since February of 2000.
Kemp is Founder and Chairman of Kemp Partners (www.kemppartners.com), a government relations and corporate affairs consulting company based in Washington, DC.
Scott Hallenbeck, Executive Director
Scott Hallenbeck has led USA Football, the national governing body of America's favorite sport on youth and amateur levels, since 2005. He oversees all aspects of the organization, including football development, communications, corporate partnerships, and membership programs.
Under Hallenbeck's leadership, USA Football has built senior and junior national teams for international competition, produced industry-leading resources to further strengthen coaching and officiating within America's No. 1 sport, established a $500,000-per-year equipment grant program, and kicked-off a ground-breaking volunteer youth coach background check subsidy program to ensure positive football experiences for the game's millions of young players.
In 2008, USA Football established coaching, officiating, and league administrator membership programs, including a nationally-endorsed Certified Coaching Education Program (CCEP) at usafootball.com. The organization conducts 40 full-day youth football coaching schools in more than 30 states as well as 37 state leadership forums uniting the youth football community through best practices and information sharing. The independent non-profit also conducts exclusive football-related research and recently re-established usafootball.com with dynamic features and content, making it a top destination for football development information.
Hallenbeck serves as executive committee treasurer for the International Federation of American Football (IFAF), the sport's global amateur umbrella organization consisting of more than 40 member countries on five continents. He is president of the Pan-American Federation of American Football (PAFAF) and leads all aspects of U.S. national football teams for IFAF Senior and Junior World Championships, each held every four years.
Hallenbeck established his own company in 2002, Links Marketing LLC, prior to joining USA Football. Links Marketing developed strategic cause-marketing programs for non-profit and for-profit clients including Easter Seals, Major League Baseball, and Boys & Girls Clubs of America. He began his professional career in sports at the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1991 and served the USOC during the 1992 and 1994 Olympic Games. Hallenbeck served Reebok in 1994 and 1996 in Global Sports Marketing capacities and in 1995 was a vice president for Turner Broadcasting's Goodwill Games production.
An honors graduate of Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H., Hallenbeck resides in McLean, Va., with his wife and two children.