Alan E. Maguire is the President and Principal Economist of The Maguire Company, an independent, economic forecasting, organizational and management analysis, and public policy consulting firm based in Phoenix, Arizona.  The Maguire Company provides a broad spectrum of analysis and consulting services to corporations, and public agencies throughout Arizona.  The firm's services include: Project Management; Economic Analysis, Quantitative Analysis of Fiscal Issues, including budgets, expenditures, and revenues; Policy Issue Management; and Organizational Review and Restructuring.  The firm's current and recent public sector clients in Arizona include: Arizona State Senate, Arizona Department of Transportation, Arizona Department of Commerce, Arizona Office of Tourism, Cities of Phoenix, Glendale, Flagstaff, and Tucson, and a variety of private concerns.

Prior to forming The Maguire Company, Mr. Maguire was a senior investment banker with a regional securities firm.  During his tenure, he was the leading financial advisor in the state of Arizona and served as either senior manager or senior financial advisor on over $1 billion in tax-exempt financing.  His clients included: Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Arizona Department of Administration, Arizona Transportation Board, City of Prescott, City of Flagstaff, and others.

From 1983 to 1987, Mr. Maguire was the Chief Deputy in the Office of the State Treasurer.  As such he had overall management responsibility for an annual cash flow of $6 billion and an internally managed, fixed income investment portfolio of more than $2 billion.

Prior to that, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Arizona State Senate, in which capacity he was involved in all legislation with either a direct or indirect impact on the municipal fiscal structure of state and local government in Arizona.  Mr. Maguire was directly involved in helping to create: the 1980 Property Tax and School Finance reforms; the 1981 Highway User Revenue Fund revisions; the recodification of the Arizona Income Tax code; the State Constitutional Expenditure Limit and numerous other legislative reforms.

Mr. Maguire has served as an advisor to Arizona Governors, Arizona Senate Presidents, and Arizona House Speakers.  In addition, he has served on numerous special legislative study committees and provides frequent expert testimony to legislative policy committees.  In 1993, he served as Director of the Arizona State Retirement System.

Mr. Maguire is involved in a wide array of community organizations including serving as President of the Arizona Economic Forum, and a current member of the Arizona Economic Estimates Commission, the Phoenix Economic Club, the Arizona Board of Investment, the Arizona Economic Roundtable, and the Maricopa County Industrial Development Authority.  He is past Chairman of the Arizona Town Hall, past Chairman of the Arizona State Retirement System Board, past President of the Maricopa County Industrial Development Authority and a former member of the Arizona Property Tax Oversight Commission.  He is an original member of the Arizona, Western States, and Metro-Phoenix Blue Chip Economic Forecast Panels.