- Born in Southern Indiana into a family of retailers whose businesses go back to the early 1920s.
- Worked in the field of direct marketing and print communication on both the creative and account sides while completing a MA in Architecture.
- Accepted his first product development position in Consumer Products in 1996
- Formed merger between Totem Product Design and Swat Products in 1997 which provided Product Development, Sorcing, and Import Logistics services for Target Corporation, Department 56, Inc., Enesco Corporation and other leading wholesalers and retailers in the U.S. and Canada who found that Swat Products as a small company could do for them what their larger internal processes couldn't.
- Worked for large and medium-sized U.S. and Asian companies in process improvement and turn-around capacities to narrow the gap between product development and the marketplace.
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