• B.A. from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. (Home of Sir Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech) Studied 
• pre-vet medicine.
• Over 30 years of sales and marketing experience. Actually, I have always been entrepreneurial enjoyed selling and sold greeting cards when I was eight.
• Cleaned animal kennels after school an on weekends while in high school for two dollars an hour.
• Worked my way through college as a photographer where I took thousands of slides for teaching equine veterinary medicine. I also worked part-time selling photographic equipment for the old Felix Camera Store in Kansas City. 
• Ten years in sales and marketing with Pitman Moore, Inc., the former veterinary pharmaceutical division of Johnson & Johnson. In addition to a highly successful field sales career, I was product manager for a wide variety of products primarily for use in small animals. These included sutures and other surgical products, anesthetics, ectoparasiticides, anthlemintics, antifungals and more.  This was probably the most fun job I ever had. I went around to other J & J companies and found products that could be used by vets and brought them to the market.
• I pioneered the use of database marketing in the late 1980's and have worked with or consulted to a number of Fortune 500 companies including, DuPont, ALPO Petfoods, Merck, Monsanto, Bayer and others.
• Always wanting to be on top of the latest trends, in 1998 I joined ABS Global as Director of Communications. In 1997, ABS made history when their scientists cloned the first bovine, a bull calf named Gene.
• As you will see by the products I currently sell, I continue to be involved in the latest technologies for veterinary medicine and animal health.
• Advanced Toastmaster Bronze from Toastmasters International and am Past-President of the Epic Toastmasters Club of Madison, WI.
• I am a trained Severe Storm Spotter with the National Weather Service and participate in CoCoRaHS, The Community Collaborative, Rain, Hail and Snow Network. http://www.cocorahs.org/  My station is WI-DA 11.

My home, family, pets and pleasures

• Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri
• Live in Madison, Wisconsin with my wife Linda, daughter Kathleen and son Charlie as well as a cat and a chocolate Labrador retriever.
• My passions include photography, music (mostly classical and classic rock) and studying natural history.
• It has not done much for my waistline, but I have become quite a gourmet chef. I like to find a good meal at a restaurant and recreate the recipe from taste. Those "secret ingredients" are the killers!
• I enjoy hiking in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, a nature preserve that backs up to our back yard. 

My favorite quotes “You can have everything that you want in life, if you’ll just help enough people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar “We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale “What the human mind can conceive and BELIEVE, it can ACHIEVE.” -Napoleon Hill “You can sit around and watch ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’, or you can turn off the TV and use that time to become one!” – Joe Thompson "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives" - Hedley Lamar from Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles "My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening trough a cosmic vapor of invention." - Hedley Lamar from Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles "The best investment I ever made was guitar lessons for my son." - Al Oates, father of Rock musician John Oates of Hall and Oates.  (When we lived in the Philadelphia area for many years I played tennis with Al. We were all talking about investments in locker room at the club and he added this wisdom!)