Clyde C. Tuggle is Co-Founder and Partner, Pine Island Capital Partners, an innovative private equity investment firm, which focuses on US middle market aerospace and defense investment opportunities.
Prior to Pine Island Capital Partners, Tuggle spent 30 years with The Coca-Cola Company. Tuggle joined the Company in 1988 in the Corporate Issues Communications Department. In 1992, he was named Executive Assistant to Roberto C. Goizueta, then Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the company, where he managed external affairs and communications for the office of the chairman. In 1998, he transferred to the company's Central European Division office in Vienna where he held a variety of positions, including Director of Operations Development, Deputy to the Division President, and Region Manager for Austria.