Derwood S. Chase, Jr.
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Chase Investment Counsel Corporation
Our vision is to foster individual opportunity and economic growth to the people of Virginia. The Institute pursues this mission by performing timely, accurate research on key policy issues and effectively marketing these findings to our primary audiences: Virginians, supporters, and activist and policy organizations. By working ahead of the political process, we lay the foundation for a society dedicated to individual liberty, dynamic entrepreneurial capitalism, private property, the rule of law, and constitutionally-limited government.
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Chase Investment Counsel Corporation
Founding member of Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
Founder and executive director of Horizons Television, Inc
Vice President at The Heritage Foundation
Vice President for development, Club for Growth
Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and Trustee of The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation
President of The Richard Norman Company
Founder and Producer of FreedomFest
President & Co-Founder of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy
Development Associate
Coalitions Coordinator
Director of Policy
Senior Fellow | Election Integrity
Operations Associate
Senior Fellow | Regulatory Reform
Executive Vice President
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Research & Policy Analyst
President & Co-Founder
Visiting Fellow
Deputy Director | Election Integrity
John Taylor fought for the freedoms that most Virginians take for granted. He was the man who stood in the gap against the corporatist excess that is so prevalent from both sides of the aisle in postmodern American politics. He acted within a framework of principle in a time when the word principle was certainly not “trending.” He strictly prescribed to the Enlightenment beliefs of our founders when many disrespect them as “dead white guys,” knowing that without the works of people like Jefferson, Madison, Mason and Washington these same detractors would be under the thumb of a continual set of overseers. We will deeply miss his passionate defense of Constitutional principles, his knowledge of history, and his fierce opposition to those who would suppress liberty.
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