Albert M. Tapper is Chairman of ACT II Companies Inc, a private investment company that acquires, operates and invests in matured companies and startup enterprises. ACT II has acquired business units from major Fortune 500 companies, including Mobil Oil Corporation, Beatrice Foods, Allegheny Corporation and Union Carbide Corporation. It's acquisitions have been in the areas of distribution, manufacturing of paper and plastic disposable products, retail hardware and paint products and industrial automotive products.

Mr. Tapper has made venture capital investments in financial institutions, medical and sports products, as well as investments in the music industry.

He is also a writer, composer and lyricist having written two off-Broadway musicals. He wrote his first musical while still in college. Since then he has written special material for regional productions and has produced two albums of his own songs Mr. Tapper composed the ballet The Seduction of Bethsheeba" whose premiere performance at Mechanics Hall was presented by the Central Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra. His second off-Broadway show, "ImPerfect Chemistry", for which Mr. Tapper wrote the story and composed the music opened at the Minetta Lane Theatre in August of 2000. Mr. Tapper has also created and written two books on humor, which were published by Andrews McMeel and Company. The books are titled, "A Guy Goes Into a Bar" and "A Minister, a Priest And a Rabbi." He has written a non-musical play, "Conversations with Max" which is scheduled to open in 2003. He is currently at work on a new satirical musical review, "Rascals, Cads, and Scalliwags". Mr. Tapper is a member of the Dramatists' Guild of America and a member of ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers).