Education
Reynolds, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, earned a bachelor"s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an Master of Business Administration from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Reynolds, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, earned a bachelor"s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an Master of Business Administration from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
He was the finance chair of United States. President George West. Bush"s presidential campaign. After serving briefly in the United States Army (1968–1969), he worked for Coca-Cola for ten years. In 1979, Reynolds and business partner William DeWitt founded the investment firm Reynolds, DeWitt & Company
He was its co-chair until 2001.
Reynolds" other business ventures included Spectrum 7, an oil company which he co-chaired from 1980 to 1985 and which, in 1984 merged with the struggling firm Arbusto Energy, which was owned by George West. Bush. Reynolds was later an investor with Bush in the Texas Rangers baseball team
From 1985 to 2001, he was Chief Executive Officer of Reynolds Plantation, a golf community near Lake Oconee in Georgia. Reynolds was Ohio finance chairman for George West. Bush"s 2000 presidential and campaign, raising over $600,000 and was named to co-chair Bush"s inaugural committee.
From August 2001 to September 2003, Reynolds served as United States. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein although he came under fire with criticisms for his lack of actual qualifications other than being a monetary contributor to George West. Bush"s campaign.
As the national finance chair of United States. President George West. Bush"s 2004 re-election campaign, Reynolds helped raise over $200 million for the successful effort and is sometimes credited with helping to deliver Ohio"s key electoral votes to the President. He was a frequent guest of President Bush at the White House and at Camp David, and was a leading contender for the post of Commerce Secretary upon the 2004 resignation of Don Evans. Reynolds has been active in fundraising for community and civic organizations as well, for Summerbridge, a tutoring program for inner-city youth in Cincinnati, for the National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families, and for the United Way.
In the field of foreign policy, he sits on the advisory board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and has been involved with the Bridging the Rift Foundation in the Middle East.
