Experience

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  Startup Advisor

  • Start-up Technology Advisor

    • Jan 2009 - Present

    Provide strategic, structural, governance, private equity, venture capital, intellectual property, financial, legal, and management advice and counsel to Boards of Directors and executive management. Current portfolio includes:• Revalesio, Inc., a pioneering biomedical company focused on developi...

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  ZNRG International Group, LLC

  • Chief Executive Officer/Chief Legal Officer

    • Jan 2007 - Jan 2009

    for a start-up company focused on development of patented technologies for the efficient distribution, transfer and storage of electrical energy. Engaged by the Board of Directors for insolvency work-out.

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  Russell Investment Group, Inc

  • Chief Corporate and Government Affairs Officer

    • Jan 1992 - Jan 2003

    responsible for global government relations and community affairs for the premier global multi-manager investment management and consulting firm in the US and its international subsidiaries (advising $2 Trillion in investment funds worldwide). Negotiated the world’s first six-country Advanced Pri...

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  Bank of America

  • VP

    • Jan 1986 - Jan 1992

    Corporate Tax Counsel, providing federal and state tax and strategic planning advice to senior management for the largest commercial bank in Washington State and its 20 subsidiaries ($50 billion in assets).

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  Pacific First Financial Corporation

  • Tax Manager

    • Jan 1984 - Jan 1986

    providing tax planning and accounting policy advice to senior management of the largest savings bank in the states of Washington and Oregon and its 18 subsidiary companies ($4 billion in assets).

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  Touche Ross & Co

  • Senior Tax Consultant

    • Jan 1980 - Jan 1984

    for banking, transportation and manufacturing companies.

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  Boeing

  • International Operations Specialist

    • Jan 1973 - Jan 1977

    providing research and planning for commercial and tax risks on international projects. Established Boeing’s first Domestic International Sales Corporation and international customer support legal structure.