A friend of mine who recently sold his business where he managed the funds of high net individuals.  He suggested that it would be beneficial to him, when addressing some of his network, if we could produce a piece where other people could speak to my creditability and trustworthiness. Four of these people will either be board members or advisory board members.

Dr. Gibbons, who is a recognized expert in trauma,  is the former Medical Director of The Abuse & Trauma center in Bellevue,  Washington. She will be serving on the Board of Directors.

Jim and I founded Seattle Shellfish 20 years.  The company has averaged profits of $3 million on sales of $10 million over the last ten years. He speaks to my creditability to found, fund, and lead start-up companies.

Jim Ford, founder and former Executive Director of Good Works, Inc., speaks to my creditability to be  the Executive Director of Working Together.

Carol and Peter Schreck taught the doctoral program in Marriage and Family therapy at the Palmer Seminary for thirty years. Both have also been therapists for forty years.  They will be heading all the psychotherapy for Working Together which shall include supervising both the individual and group therapy and all psychoeducational programs.

Keven is a friend and long term member of  AA (40+ years) who speaks to his recovery growing up in a family with alcoholism and mental illness.   He has some well informed insights into his own personal recovery from the trauma of physical abuse.

Neill Edwards will be  the Director of Team Building & Experiential Education at Working Together.  He has a Masters in Counseling Psychology where we worked for ten years as marriage, family and child therapist.    He had a speciality in working with youth at risk on extended wilderness trips. He then transitioned to working at the corporate level after doing graduate studies in adult and organizational development where he became a facilitator of groups. He then taught group facilitation, interpersonal communication, and conflict management at Temple University.  In this video, Neill describes the state of the art ropes course Working Together is building and how it will be employed with clients at Working Together.

Founded in 1988, I was one of the three founders of this home repair ministry where we made the homes of people warmer, safer and dryer.  Our son Jay and I produced this piece when he was fifteen where he did all the shooting and editing.  Good Works is now the largest independent non-profit in Chester county PA.  We completed our 1000^th home last year, impacting about 7-8000 family members over thirty years.

As the first American in Somalia after the conflict there in the early nineties. I went to Mogadishu and met the famous warlord General Aideed.  We did a deal with the local elders in the area around the Horn of Africa, as there was no national government yet after the war. After raising $3 million from private investors, we ultimately found and recovered the shipwreck (a French steamer called The Meikong) sunk off the Horn of Africa.  On board were 1000-year-old statues from the Champa period of French Indochina (now present day Vietnam).  We produced a full length made for TV documentary.

This piece is an 18-minute short we produced for our shareholders. My Dad and I were also filmed on site for a French documentary.  I had led the entire effort.  Went to Somalia three times to get the salvage contract, secured the international salver Robert Stenuit from Belgium to lead, hired the salvage vessel, procured local Somali security and bought all the equipment.  My father, to his credit, raised half the money and learned to dive at 75 to be in the documentary.  But he ‘hijacked’ the lead in the documentary saying that when he decided to get in the marine salvage business he wanted me to lead his business!! We left it in.  I loved my Dad’s spirit.

After raising $14 million for a treasure hunt in the Philippine Islands, I moved our family there for a year and a half to lead the effort.  Luckily we never made a recovery for I was pretty sure later, I would have been killed.  We built a house on one of the islands to be a rest house for anyone to come and rejuvenate who was involved in some way to be a force for good in the world. Our Son Jason was 17 when we collaborated to make this piece.

This is the university where I am finishing my degree in marriage and family therapy.   This piece was produced to assist them to fund their $3 million library expansion. EU has strong roots in diversity and social justice that we sought to demonstrate in the video.

This is my home church for the last thirty years.  Produced this to assist in the funding of one of our expansion efforts.

Raised the most difficult funding for this deal, which was the first $2 million.  They later attracted public and private funding in the $50 million range. Produced this video to assist in the process. Previously a steel steering wheel (for an auto) took 2 ½ minutes to die cast where TMGI produced magnesium wheels in less than 20 seconds.  The company went public on the Nordic Growth Market (out of Sweden) and went from 5 to 45 in fifteen months.  Shareholders were thrilled on this one.

Raised almost ten million for this company. Ultimately it was not commercially successful – we could not get the government or the schools to pay for the glasses. It is a revolutionary lens technology to solve color blindness and more importantly help students with reading problems associated with dyslexia. We eventually gave the patents and technology to a non-profit that is still in existence today.  We need to talk about this area. There was a study done in Texas that determined that 48% of the prison population was dyslexic. Most studies indicate between 5-10% of the population is dyslexic. The prevailing theory was that kids who were dyslexic and could not read and where shamed, eventually quit school, acted out, and landed in prison. There is a huge percentage of the prison population that struggles to read that could benefit from ChromaGen lenses.