After graduating from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, I returned to Chicago to work and live. Love the people in the midwest. I started out in banking, but soon got the bug for technology. I took a sales job with IBM and over the next 20 years worked for a series of technology companies, including Storage Technology, Comdisco, and even a dot.com. After my 5th company either was acquired or went bankrupt, I decided to make a career change and got into mergers and acquisitions. I joined a small firm and learned the business and then formed my own firm that specializes in selling small software and information technology companies. I have been doing that for the last 20 years.
Three years ago my wife and I bought our dream home on the lake in Grand Beach MI, right around the corner from Chicago, near New Buffalo. The golf course is 2 minutes away via golf cart, the Pickleball courts are a bike ride away and there is plenty of fishing once I start winding down my business. Instead of downsizing our house, we upsized hoping to lure kids and grandkids to this little piece of heaven destination. Except for the arthritis, Life is pretty amazing.

I am tremendously grateful for my experience at ETHS. I moved to Evanston from a small town in Michigan 2 weeks before the start of my freshman year and my dad moved my brother and me into the Orrington Hotel so we could try our for football (our house was not yet available). I went from big fish in a small pond to small fish in the real world. What a challenge. After playing back-up quarterback for my first 3 years, I was finally given the chance to play safety and made all suburban league and got into Penn because of my football (OK, my grades were pretty good). I tell people that I was more serious in high school than I am now.
I loved the cultural and ethnic diversity that Evanston provided and the competition at every discipline was tremendous. What a training ground for future success. I think I feel even stronger about my love for our high school than when I was attending.....ETHS we will fight for you!