Areas of Specialization
- Business Brokerage – Business with Revenues up to $10 M - Mergers and Acquisitions – Business with revenues above $5 million - Telecom Companies – cable TV, phone and other media company - Distressed Companies – Chapter 11 liquidations; managed for Bankruptcy Court cable TV businesses; Court Appointed Liquidating Agent for Auto Dealerships. Professional Accomplishments - Brokered over 45 cable TV system sales - Arranged $100 M in financing, primarily telecom ventures Experience - Represented buyers and sellers in sales of cable TV, radio, broadcast, and other communications properties - Started, assembled local investors, and arranged financing for multiple communications’ businesses – sold or merged - Owner and operator of more than a dozen private cable TV businesses- Lobbied at local, state, and Federal levels in five states - Obtained licenses for communications companies in over 75 communities - Licensed Real Estate Broker – over 25 years Education - Graduate of North Miami Senior High School – Miami, FL - BA Degree – Social Science & Business - Stetson University, DeLand, FL - MS Degree – American History - Redding University – on-line - Multiple certificates in valuation and financing Other Accomplishments - Rotarian - Past President – Rotary Club of Tampa Bay - Co-Founder, One Here…One There, international educational charity - Paul Harris Fellow - Board of Fellows – University of Tampa - Past President – Stetson University Alumni Association - Former Stetson University Trustee - Past officer & Director – South Carolina Cable TV Association - Former Officer & Director – Town ‘N Country (Tampa) Jaycees - Kentucky Colonel