Entrepreneur:At the early age of 18 years old Mr. Verdi acquired his first business, a RI television listing newspaper called TV Facts that is still in publication today.In the years leading up to the age of 21 he acquired several other businesses in the food service sector throughout RI. By age 30, Verdi owned, co-owned, served as principal or had investments in over a dozen businesses that ranged from the food industry and toy manufacturing to restaurants and hi-tech developments in the biotechnology field and nuclear waste management.Over the last 15 years, Mr. Verdi has been involved in over 1.2 billion dollars in business mergers, reverse mergers, start-ups and acquisitions and currently owns, co-owns or has investments in more than two dozen businesses in diversified industries with more than 1000 local employees and sales of more than $100 million nationwide.He also holds a large real estate portfolio that includes the 175-year-old former United Methodist Church in East Greenwich where the constitution of RI was adopted.Mr Verdi has produced 12 featured films over the last five years, 3 with Oscar winning directer Martin Scorsese that include, The 50 year Argument, Bleed For This and Silence.