Tom Curl

DRG director Tom Curl is presently associated with TLR Group, L.L.C, consulting and private investments, and does professional consulting work.

Curl formerly was an executive with Reiman Publications, a magazine and book publisher with 12 national magazines having a total circulation of 16 million. While there, he served as editor of Country magazine and was founding editor of Birds & Blooms magazine. Later, he was president of the company from 1995-1998 and chief executive officer from 1998-2002. He left Reiman Publications after Reader's Digest Association purchased the company in 2002.

Curl spent 22 years with Southern Progress Corporation, a subsidiary of Time Inc., where he was editorial director of Progressive Farmer, managing editor of Southern Living and then vice president and editor-in-chief of the company's magazine division.

Curl graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor's degree in agricultural journalism. He was named one of the Outstanding Young Men of America, served as president of the American Agricultural Editor's Association, worked with the Leadership Birmingham program and served on the board of directors for Magazine Publishers of America.

In addition to his professional affiliations, Curl serves as vice president of marketing for the Potawatomi Area Council of Boy Scouts of America and is vice president of the board for the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield, Wis.

He and his wife, Lynda, have been married since 1971, and they have one son, Rob. Tom's hobbies include woodworking, reading, fishing, hunting, gardening and travel.