Experience

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  MANSHEL® CONSULTING

  • Middlebury, VT | Washington, DC

  • Founder and President

    • 1985 - Present
    • Middlebury, VT | Washington, DC

    Information, competitiveness expert and management consultant for corporate and public sector clients, including Wisconsin: 21st Century, State of Wisconsin gubernatorial commission on reinventing of government; and sole information participant at Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs' Fellows Alumni Conference, "Solving the World's Intractable Problems."

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  METROWESTUSA™ BIODIESEL

  • Founder and President

    • 2005 - 2008

    Launched pioneerng biodiesel-only retail fuel brokerage service in the United States.

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  IQ INC

  • Concord, MA

  • Founder and President

    • 1990 - 1998
    • Concord, MA

    - Affiliate, Harvard University, Program on Information Resources Policy (PIRP)- Created world’s first overnight Internet-based commercial information agency™ - promoted in 219 cities worldwide in conjunction with US News & World Report, Continental Airlines, American Express, Sprint and other global market leaders.

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  INTELLIQUEST®

  • Concord, MA

  • Founder and President

    • 1985 - 1990
    • Concord, MA

    Launched and grew world’s first Internet-based consulting and research firm, providing overnight, customized competitive intelligence briefings and alerts from 56% of the world’s online open sources to professionals in 34 US states, Mexico and Canada.

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  K&W

  • Boston, MA

  • Account Supervisor

    • 1983 - 1984
    • Boston, MA

    Pioneered successful introduction of Business Times on ESPN, the first national, business-only morning news program, opposite NBC's TODAY and ABC's Good Morning America.

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  BBDO

  • Boston, MA

  • Account Executive

    • 1982 - 1983
    • Boston, MA

    Pioneered use of geodemographic software and digital media for first-of-its-kind use of stock quote telephony and news/retrieval services in conjunction with Dow Jones & Co.'s "Blue Sky Group," for mutual fund and discount brokerage giant Fidelity Investments.

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  HHCC (Hill Holliday)

  • Boston, MA

  • Account Executive/Media Researcher

    • 1979 - 1982
    • Boston, MA

    - Foresaw the power and reach of the fledgling cable television advertising industry and created innovative and effective media strategy, enabling first program-specific uses of both ESPN and USA Network; first national cable television media usage from New England; and first use of cable television for Spalding Sports Worldwide

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  NOR EAST COMMUTER

  • Boston, MA

  • VP, Corporate Affairs

    • 1977 - 1979
    • Boston, MA

    Enabled successful launch of fastest growing commuter airline serving Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Cape Cod and Boston, MA. Assisted in establishing joint fare affiliations with leading national certificated airlines, including United, TWA, Delta and Eastern.

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  FOREIGN POLICY Magazine

  • New York, NY

  • Editorial Researcher

    • 1975 - 1975
    • New York, NY

    Reviewed, researched and revised articles by leading international relations intellectuals during tenure of Richard Holbrooke, Managing Editor, who later played a pivotal role as US Assistant Secretary of State, US Ambassador and US Presidential Envoy