Beyond the Boardroom – Insights from IACP’s Volunteer Leaders

Vincent Talucci serves as the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). As the chief staff executive, Mr. Talucci is responsible for ensuring that the IACP builds upon over a century of success addressing issues at the forefront of the policing profession, to include, advocacy, training, education and outreach. Leading a staff of over 130 professionals, Mr. Talucci provides strategic guidance to the IACP governing body and membership on the critical issues they confront each day.

Prior to being appointed Executive Director in 2014, Mr. Talucci was IACP’s Deputy Executive Director, Director of IACP’s Programs and Research Activities Directorate, and oversaw a broad range of core association services: police operations and management evaluations; promotional testing; executive search and placement; and oversight of federally supported programmatic efforts.

From 2010 to 2012, Mr. Talucci served as Principal Advisor for Law Enforcement, State and Local Government Practice, with SAS, a worldwide software industry leader in analytics. From 2002 to 2010, Mr. Talucci served with the IACP, progressing to Director of the Division of State and Provincial Police (S&P), and worked to forge strategic directions to address critical issues facing state and provincial law enforcement, and led efforts in information sharing, homeland security, and innovative technology. Before joining IACP, Mr. Talucci worked with the United States Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice, where his responsibilities included the substantive management of criminal justice initiatives.

Mr. Talucci holds a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University, a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Washington and is a Certified Association Executive (CAE).

Ronald Sellon is the Police Chief in the town of Mansfield Massachusetts. He is a military veteran, holds a Bachelor's degree in Law Enforcement, Masters degree in Public Safety Administration, and Juris Doctor law degree. He is a licensed attorney in Massachusetts and Boston Federal Court, a graduate of the FBI National Academy session 245th and the Police Executive Research Forums Senior Management institute session 65. As Police Chief, in addition to his other duties he is responsible for public safety at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, a 20,000 seat outdoor amphitheater that welcomes between 30 and 40 concerts every summer. In this capacity he is charged with planning, staffing, and coordinating resources for each show. He also currently sits on the executive board of the Bristol County Police Chiefs Association, and is the 1st Vice President of the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Counsel, which provides mutual aid facilitation of various specialized services including Peer Support, Mobile operations, Marine unit operations, Computer crime lab operations, SWAT, Negotiations, Command post operation, and Investigative services for over 40 organizations and almost a million residents in the Boston metropolitan area. In this capacity he is a control Chief for the the regional emergency response and SWAT team. He is currently the IACP Vice President-Treasurer, sits on the International association of Chiefs of Police Human and Civil Rights committee and recently accepted IACP's community policing award in 2019 for Mansfield's Community outreach.