My business experience is difficult to encapsulate as fate has certainly steered me to many career-altering opportunities. As I have often stated, there is no "one thing" that could be used to identify a specific career path, but I have been able to show a successful track record in over forty years of work experience by innovative thinking and application of skills.Following the Marine Corps I spent 20+ years in the automotive aftermarket industry in a variety of positions ranging from sales, sales management, marketing, corporate management, working with OEM's, publishing an industry news magazine, authoring an educational book on unibody construction, and pioneering legislation on the full-disclosure use on non-OEM aftermarket parts in the repair industry. My three biggest successes were in reaching landmark sales increases with a subsidiary of Ingersoll-Rand, Applied Power, and in developing the unique sales program for CCC Information Systems which took the company from $7M in sales to $380M in just three short years enabling them to go "public".After leaving the auto industry I consulted with a number of companies and owned several small businesses ranging from the food industry to construction. When my first wife developed breast cancer, I applied my knowledge of science and developed a database of cancer treatment protocols, attended numerous oncology educational seminars on cutting edge treatments from the DaVinci robot, to cancer vaccines and biological response modifiers, landing to a position as the spokesperson for the National Cord Blood Registry. I am a well-versed lecturer have spoken at major medical centers in Eastern Europe, built several clinics in underdeveloped countries, provided new treatment information to more than 1000 health practitioners and patients, written a book about cancer treatment options, and have spoken to more than 3000 Rotary clubs and Rotary events in 43 states and five foreign countries.