Setting policy for the school district, hiring and evaluating superintendent, overlooking an approximate 70 million dollar budget.

Manage all trademarks, patents, patent litigations through origination and appeals, licenses, and royalties including sale of two proprietary patents. Daily involvement in both strategic marketing plans and operations

Worked with Dr. John Brademas, President Emeritus, NYU, and Ex Congressman and Majority Whip of Indiana, on development of a John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress at New York University School on Congressional Studies. This resulted in a congressional appropriation of $1.3 million. This work was done gratis. Development of Congressional Study advisory board of key political and economic personalities.Support of Chief Development Officer’s strategy and activities in fundraising to meet the financial and growth objectives of the Center of Congressional Studies.

Directed advocacy and legislative relations, working with state and local politicians, resulting in modifications of regulations affecting state guidelines. Spearheaded teams to build strategic relationships with venture capital groups and the investment banking community. Responsible for all environmental reporting; developed curriculum for national group of fire chiefs.Led and supervised a senior staff including marketing, accounting and environmental.Provided administrative oversight to the operational support services including grants and contracts, intellectual property rights, human resources, facilities and new construction, legislative affairs and community relations.Developed budgets: working with auditors, banks, and outside accounting. Final responsibility for year-end P & L. Succeeded in the award of eleven patents; responsibility for licensing agreements.

Senior Spokesperson for a non-profit public coalition of over 100 environmental companies; directed their administrative, public policy and lobby campaign.Worked with California State Legislature and Fortune 100 presidents to develop standards for Southern California; testified as an expert witness before the California Legislature. This resulted in legislation changes that saved California citizens and companies millions.Attended all public forums and local county and city meetings, presenting key speeches. Complimented by State Senator, Richard Polanco of California who said that I “earned the respect, as a lobbyist, of both houses of the California Legislature” and by the President of Atlantic Richfield Marketing, who praised my “drive and intelligence”.Prepared and presented a series of educational seminars, TV appearances, news releases, and press conferences necessary to spearhead changes in government regulations. Delivered speeches to California regulatory groups; worked in concert with presidents of Fortune 100 companies in passing needed legislation.Nominated to a Governor’s committee by the president of Fortune 100 Company, the Vice Chancellor of University of California, Riverside, a California State Senator and the Chairman of the County Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles.

Business plan development for nutritional and pharmaceutical product development for the aging market; follow though from initial conception to detailed planning, branding, execution, licensing, patents, and funding including investor and board relations. Planned all business objectives, developed organizational policies, coordinated operations between departments and established all responsibilities and procedures. Managed all vendor, supplier, quality control and contract manufacturing. Designed a major publicity campaign, presenting over a hundred invited talks, radio and television appearances and private seminars for national leaders such as Royal Sultan of Malaysia; appearing in over fifty magazine and newspaper articles including two covers of national magazines.Directed activities of Gerontology Research Foundation, including publication of national newsletter “Maximum Life Span”.Final review on all marketing, advertising, product description, and packaging. Directed all marketing, signing key distributors, and national sales groups. Developed the sales training package.Made personal appearances in retail outlets throughout the US.Total program and product development working with Dr. Roy Walford at UCLA. Developed a full line of 15 OTC products for three markets including the Far East.

Led a research team on relationship of genetic repair to lifespan and diseases of aging. Working in collaboration with San Diego Zoo, developed major correlation of DNA repair to maximum lifespan in primates.Grant responsibility, curriculum planning and development a research team on relationship of genetic repair to lifespan and diseases of aging. Working in collaboration with San Diego Zoo, developed major correlation of DNA repair to maximum lifespan in primates.Grant responsibility, curriculum planning and development