Jacob Moore
Managing PartnerJacob Moore brings a unique point of view and thoughtful advice to Generation Seven Strategic Partners drawing on his extensive political and business experience with tribal governments, local, state, and federal public policy, and the private sector.
Most recently, Mr. Moore was the Special Assistant on Congressional and Legislative for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Mr. Moore’s primary duties as Special Assistant were to function as the intergovernmental liaison and policy analyst and advisor to the President, Vice-President and Council on political and intergovernmental affairs.
Jacob Moore has a long history of public service that was encouraged and fostered by his parents, in particular, his father, the late Josiah Moore, an educator and former Chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Among other groups, Jacob Moore previously served on the Board of Directors for the Phoenix Indian Center and the Native American Community Health Center, Inc. and was a Community Fellow for the ASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy.
Mr. Moore is currently President of the Arizona State Board of Education and also serves on the Heard Museum Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors for the Children’s Action Alliance. Mr. Moore also serves as the Tribal Relations Coordinator for the ASU Office of Public Affairs where he helps to coordinate the American Indian Newly Elected Official (AINEO) program.
Mr. Moore worked as an Economic Development Analyst for the SRP-MIC and previously had a 14-year career in banking that included employment with Valley National Bank of Arizona, United Bank of Arizona, Citibank, N.A., and Norwest Bank, Az.
Jacob Moore holds a Bachelors of Science degree in finance from Arizona State University and an Executive MBA from Arizona State University W.P. Carey College of Business.
Mr. Moore is Tohono O’odham, Akimel O’odham, Lakota, and Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona. The Tohono O’odham have ancestral ties to the Akimel O’odham (Pima) of the Salt River and Gila River Valleys.