 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.
- I 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 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.
- I love to see my
kids have fun!
- 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.
- I also enjoy riding
on the many miles of bicycle trails here in
Wisconsin.
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
"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!)
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