• Hallmark: Vision, innovation, leadership and creating effective organizations.
  • More than 35 years of success in the fields of Finance, Manufacturing, Entertainment and Adult Education
  • Education: Boston University, Economics and Finance
  • Late 1960's Estate planner with Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
    • Manager, West Los Angeles office of Home Life Insurance Company of New York.
  • Late 1960's and early 1970's, pioneered the Financial Department Store Concept as cofounder of Financial Congeneric Corporation, a publicly traded holding company that acquired financial service firms ranging in activities from mutual fund sales, insurance sales, asset leasing and finance to stock brokerage and business management.
  • 1973, bought controlling interest in National Diversified Funding Corporation; a Los Angeles based private equity investment company.
  • Mid to late 1970's, pioneered LBO's with leveraged-buy out of Grand Prix Cycle Products followed by Elevator Products of California, Grant Machine Works, National Recreation Products and the fork tube division of Wheel Specialties, Inc.; combining them for better purchasing power, distribution, product mix and other economies of scale.
  • 1980's, built Bizar Financing, a business support organization and finance course on "how to start, buy and build a business using little or none of your own cash," into an international phenomenon with distribution in forty of America's largest cities and seventeen foreign countries.
  • Early to late 1980's, pioneered the development of the ½ hour-long television program commercial known as an "infomercial" with "Getting Rich Your Way" which became one of the most successful TV infomercials ever produced to attract people to educational events. Also developed backend product and service profit centers such as a 900 number telephone Advisor Line, specialty how-to manuals, books, audio and video cassette tapes, business acquisition and management consulting, newsletter, business and loan brokerage, specialized computer software and networking services.
  • Early to mid 1990's, Chairman & CEO of ParticiVision, Inc., pioneered the development of Viewer-Active television programming, using telephone and the Internet as a return path to enable viewers to actively participate in television programming.
  • Late 1990's to 2005, Chairman & CEO of PhyGen, Inc. a manufacturer/distributor of proprietary herbal based products for the health, anti-aging, and life-extension industries.
  • 2007-, Organized and now guides 10 industry aggregations strategically positioning companies for competition in an information age global economy.
  • Raised more than $68 million in capital in addition to negotiating credit facilities as small as $100,000 from TOPA Thrift and Loan to as large as $500 million from Lehman Brothers.
  • Non-entrepreneurial activities: Chairman of the California Task Force on Taxation and Regulation of Small Business during the Brown administration. Consultant to businesses large and small and government agencies such as NASA for their technology transfer program. Appeared on more than 120 radio and television news and talk shows such as the Today Show with Bryant Gumbel. The subject of feature articles in more than 25 of the nations leading newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal.