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Brian Presson was born in Eureka Humbolt County, California on October 10th, 1967, to his Mother Carol Jean Capone who was born towards the end of World War two on Dec 7th, 1945, and Father Lloyd Wayne Presson who was a war baby born on March 30th, 1940.

In 1985 Brian attended junior Eureka High school where he first showed an interest in athletics and became Three times all-county cross country champion with a best time of 4:06: over 1500 Meters.

On leaving junior High school he attended the College of the Siskiyous from 1987 to 1988 in weed Northern California. As an undergraduate, he graduated with honors attaining accreditation for Non-Professional General Legal Studies

This is when Brian first showed real signs of his burgeoning athletic prowess and was a 7-time golden valley conference Champion at Cross country Track and field and was awarded the Golden valley conference student-athlete of the year in 1988 in recognition of his performances.

On leaving high school he accepted 4 athletic Scholarships to the University of Nevada to run under legendary coach Jack Cook under whom he was voted 3 times student-athlete of the week by big sky.

Brian studied from 1988 to 1994 successfully attaining his Bachelor's degree in American History, but it was his scintillating athletic performances that were starting to get him noticed.

He became an established athletics champion and his interesting history which is littered with awards, tournament and event wins, chronicles his rise, culminating in 1988 with reaching the Olympic Trial standard, but his dream was sadly shattered by injury in the weeks running up to the final trials.

Brians’s name is still listed as a member on the 1988 Big Sky all-academic teams roll of honor.

Notable athletic achievements include being awarded Big sky Student-Athlete of the year all-sports champion in 1989.

Big sky Conference Champion in 1989 over 10, 000 meters with a time of 30:05.94

The USA TAC road racing champion Half Marathon in 1990 with the second-fastest time in history in 1990 with the second-fastest time in history

During his running career, Brian attained a very credible best half marathon time of 1:05.36 on October 21st, 1990 at the Humboldt Redwoods Half Marathon event.

This event saw Brian finish 2nd behind Olympic athlete Mark Conover by a mere 0.16 of a second.

Brian developed a healthy rivalry with the Olympic athlete who was a 1988 United States Olympic Trials marathon,[1 winner and subsequently and successfully competed in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul South Korea.

Other notable achievements where a 15km time of 47:02.03 and at the 1990 Stanford Holiday Inn Track & Field Festival he was awarded the 10,000 meters champion’s medal finishing in  in 1st place with a time of 29:54

After his Athletics career finished far earlier than expected, Brian worked in the removals industry, before taking a life-changing leap and moving to Thailand

Brians’s entrepreneurial spirit came to the fore, and he started in real estate as an adviser for the Japanese real estate investment market. At the time this was a first for Pattaya and set the tone for the region’s ever-growing real estate market.

He then progressed to ownership of his own company Direct Real Estate, before plunging into Pattaya’s Nightlife industry.

His first business was as a Gogo Bar Owner at Dolls GoGo on Pattaya’s infamous Walking Street where tourists and locals are readily attracted to its bright lights, hedonistic nightlife, and outlets offering sex industry services.

His next business involved setting up an alcohol beverages distribution wholesalers in Pattaya and partnering into another Gogo on LK Metro in Pattaya called Chaos where once more he attempted to make his fortune among the throngs of western sex tourists in seedy Pattaya.

Pattaya’s Gogo and nightlife sector always attracted an eclectic mix of interesting people from all walks of life and points of the globe.

Brians’s other great passion was poker and this led to a brush with the local law in August 2013 when he was arrested at an illegal Poker Game in Pattaya.

During the military coup, gambling establishments were subjected to a significant clampdown. Although a stressful event, thankfully it only ended in a hefty fine as reported in the Pattaya Mail.

At the time Brian was a 25% shareholder in a business known as Riverboat Casino in Bangkok. And this was closed down under the new regime.

Brian has since become synonymous as a local benefactor and being a compassionate guy when COVID-19 hit Thailand, and most entertainment outlets were forced to close he decided to act.

With tourism halted, many Thais struggled to make ends meet and lost homes and jobs. Brian's initiative was to organize free meal distribution in association with local business Nadia's Kitchen and he set up a fundraiser for the charity.

Brian's charity Brian and his team fundraised tens of thousands of Thai Baht to feed homeless families and out of work Thai people, some of whom had lost everything due to the pandemic. The charity known as Capone’s meals fed thousands of people who would not have had a meal that day. Free meals for those in need. One meal a day for those in need. Disabled, HIV positive, unemployed, or down on luck. Our motto is.. “don’t judge people, help them instead.” He is soon to be a published author with a fascinating new novel based on his exploits in Thailand's “city of sin” entitled “Capone”, Thailand's sinner or saint.

Watch this space for book release news