20 years of consumer product experience:

• Skilled in many trade classes (retailing, manufacturing & service sectors)
• Sales & marketing success in local/regional/national/international markets
• Extensive staff and management experience for companies with annual sales volumes from $2 million to $2 billion
• Demonstrated ability to successfully innovate products, programs, services, divisions and companies (owner of US Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights)
• Creative in both pooling and utilizing critical resources 
• Extensive well-developed network of professional allies
• Practiced in business plans, capital formation, lender & investor negotiations

20+ years of real estate sales, marketing, development and investment experience

• Member in good standing with local, state and national Realtor organizations In-Licensed Realtor since 1997, Licensed Real Estate Broker since 2001
• Well practiced in land development (including parcels exceeding 100 acres)
• Well practiced in the redevelopment of properties to best capitalize on current opportunities for highest and best use
• Instrumental in opening Nexes Realty in Muskegon in 1998
• Opened, owned and operated First Stone Realty in Muskegon 2003-2020
• Real estate consultant to DWH Corp. in Grand Rapids 2009-2016

40+ years of business development experience. Settings included: high growth; turnaround/restructure; startups (8; the 1st one lost most of my net worth). Proven abilities to both innovate and execute. Skilled in many market sizes and in widely, even wildly, differing economic conditions. Since 1988, “on the side,” I have counseled small businesses and done personal coaching.

Personal
Married 55 years, 2 children, 2 grandchildren

Special Interests
Research, Reading, Writing and Public Speaking