• President and Chief Operating Officer of the Electronic Funds Transfer Association ), a multi-industry trade group, where he led educational and government relations activities on electronic banking, point-of-sale, electronic benefits transfer, and other member concerns.

• President of The Arkansas Institute ), a start-up public policy organization, where he led research on issues of statewide significance, including state R&D policy, youth crime, the need for a state office in D.C., and the emerging mismatch between workers' skills and employers' job requirements. The Institute was honored by winning the Governmental Research Association's 1994 national award for Most Distinguished Research, following a 50-state competition.

• Executive Vice President of Benton International ), where he led the company's futures research studies for clients in North and South America, Europe, and Japan to support strategic planning, consumer and competitive analysis, new product and market evaluation, and other topics that often combined technical, economic, and business policy aspects of EFT.

• Senior Research Associate at the Center for Futures Research in the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Southern California ), where he developed and led a unique program dedicated to applying the tools of futures research to define policy-relevant strategic environments for financial service providers, including the consumer finance, property/casualty insurance, and life and health insurance industries.

• Deputy Director and Director of Research of the presidentially appointed National Commission on Electronic Fund Transfers ), where he led a program of studies and hearings that established the policy-analytic basis for NCEFT recommendations adopted in subsequent legislation which shaped the future of EFT in the U.S.

• Co-founder and Vice President of The Futures Group ), where he led many projects, including studies of the market for new electronic products, Congress' needs for forecasts, strategic futures for several corporations, and research needs in futures research. He also introduced the Interview Delphi and the FPE (Focused Planning Effort) process.

• Research Associate at the Institute for the Future ), where he participated in the earliest applications of futures research, including policy research on such questions as the future of telephony, socio-political futures for Canada, federal-state science policy formulation, and future time and money budgets of consumers.

• Assistant to the President of The RAND Corporation ), where he was concerned with military and non-military applications of systems analysis, program budgeting (PPBS), and long-range forecasting.
  

Mr. Boucher's 450 presentations and publications include five books as author, co-author, or editor, among them Systems Analysis and Policy Planning (American Elsevier); Futures Research and the Strategic Planning Process (ASHE-ERIC); Applying Methods and Techniques of Futures Research (Jossey-Bass); and The Study of the Future (National Science Foundation). Mr. Boucher, who began his career as a teacher of English at the University of Missouri ), has been an adjunct professor in schools of business (University of Connecticut), public administration (USC), and arts and sciences (UCLA). He is listed in Who's Who in America (1986 -) and other directories.

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