1969-1972 LA Valley Junior College in Accounting and Music. Graduated with honors.
1972-1974 The William Morris Agency, Beverly Hills, CA Television Package Accounting Department.
1974-1976 CBS in Television City in LA CA. Served as a CBS financial below-the-line cost control rep.
1976-1986---Financial and accounting services to television and motion picture industry companies including MTM Productions, Viacom Productions, Fox, Warner Brothers, Hanna Barbera,, etc
1980—Sourced music material for producer Dennis Lambert .Located a song from Warner Brothers Music. This song was recorded by “The Manhattans” and appeared on the Love Songs LP.
1986---Production/development deal to develop motion picture and television properties for the Lawrence Schiller Company.
1986-1988---Manager to Writers and/or Directors. Clients were CBS, The Ladd Company and Tri-Star Pictures among many others, Served as Executive Producer on project sold to The Ladd Company. The Ladd Company is the same firm that produced “Brave Heart” which starred Mel Gibson. .
1988 to present---Securitization financing in real estate and entertainment.
An all-cash 5 day closing of $5.7M for the acquisition of an office building in Houston Texas..
Complete restructuring of a shopping center in the Southeast USA for $2M.
Arranged for client to be approved by the FDIC
Joint venture between a Christian music download service, EMI and one of the largest Christian churches in the USA.
Closed loan for $8M secured by the deferred compensation of a NBA player.
Served on the marketing committee for a middle market event hosted thru The LA Venture Association.
Participated in closing two separate transactions for up to $44M for Health Care entities.
Closed $1M LOC for IT firm.
Real Estate Notes purchase for $730K against an unpaid balance of $1,4M
Packaged Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Live Nation, Monster Drinks and Idol Roc resulting in the launch of the first American tour by Iggy Azalea.
Closed up to $100M equity fund for real estate unit sponsor in repositioning assets.
Closed 2 debt rounds totaling $8.5M for a digital media company in Miami, Florida.
