Ohioans for Tax Reform Executive Director Jack Boyle has had a 35 year career as a mortgage banker, small business owner, and financial advisor for a national investment firm while volunteering on various political campaigns.
Boyle turned to public policy full time in 2007 when he joined Americans For Prosperity to open their Ohio chapter. As AFP State Director, he organized and participated in grassroots events with attendance as high as 10,000. During his 2 ½ year tenure, AFP-Ohio grew to over 17,000 members.
In 2009, Boyle cofounded (with Ron Alban) Citizens United to End Ohio’s Estate Tax, a ballot-issue PAC, dedicated to ending Ohio’s estate tax, in existence since 1893. This successful statewide effort combined a grassroots petition campaign of 2,000 volunteers with a coalition of national and Ohio organizations to end Ohio’s estate tax on 1/1/13. Because 80% of Ohio’s estate tax revenue went to local jurisdictions, this result was achieved in the teeth of strident opposition from over 8,000 local officials.
In 2014 Boyle founded www.PutGrowthFirst.com, a project/campaign to educate citizens and office holders that robust economic growth is necessary to solve our nation’s problems. With PGF co-founder Rich Lowrie, author of Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan, Boyle works with the Freedom Caucus in the US House of Representatives and with other elected officials and organizations on tax and monetary policy.
For almost 10 years Boyle has chaired various Ohio editions of monthly Center-Right Coalition meetings under the auspicious of Americans For Tax Reform. Over this period he has led and consulted on numerous state and local campaigns for both candidates and issues.
Boyle has a BA from Boston College in Russian and Political Science, and attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Boyle serves/has served on a number of local boards and committees, among them the Cleveland Society for the Blind, BRICK, an at-risk youth mentoring organization, Cuyahoga Valley Republicans, the Ohio Diversity Coalition and the Thomas Jefferson Knowledge Institute. He was a successful candidate for the Cuyahoga County Reform Commission in 2009.
Boyle is married, with five adult children and five grandchildren (with another on the way!), residing in Solon, Ohio.