User:Cleve Tidwell

Cleve Tidwell is Chief Executive Officer of MoneyCafe USA. Mr. Tidwell is co founder of the Denver Company and merged operations with a 20 year old established financial firm in Japan. They now have offices in Denver,CO. Osaka and Tokyo, Japan. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

Business
Prior to joining MoneyCafe USA in Jan 2006, Cleve Tidwell was Chief Executive Officer of Zacata Strategy and Executive Management an international firm working in 20 countries. Mr. Tidwell and his firm work closly with many heads of states in Asia and S. America. Even though he had remained quite and low key in his work for many years he has been very active in international trade relations for the United States with several countries. His work with, governments,corporations and small business strategies is a highly sought after service in North America and internationally. He has been recognized by several publications as the leading source of corporate strategy and executive level training available today.

Mr. Tidwell currently lives in Denver, CO. He recently lived in Tokyo, Japan and has lived and worked in several countries since 1996. He returned to the United States in 2005 and merged his firm with Knows-iland of Japan and remained as the President of North American Operations. His American oeprations goes under the name of MoneyCafeUSA and serves clients in five countries from Denver, CO.

From 1977 till 1996 he served in positons from sales to executive management of Financial Division of Textron in various locations in the Unites States until the company was sold to a European Company in 1996. He was also licensed as a registered securities advisor for 20 years.

He has fought for health care reform within the industry and at various political levels. Mr. Tidwell has been very active behind the scenes in the political arena on health care reform, equal rights and tax releaf for small businesses. He has stepped forward to take a more agressive approach for a political position in the future. Mr. Tidwell is currently preparing to run for the United States Senate. A new face to Colorado politics and business leadership for a state that has serious issues. His energy and experience seems to be catching on. He is a leader that can bring positive change for Colorado.

Philanthropy
In addition, Mr. Tidwell serves as consulting director of the Thailand Royal Water Project and has served on boards of the Oasis Center, Big Brothers and active in the American Red Cross. He was also responsible for promoting one of the most successfull concerts for the American Red Cross in the Nashville, Tennessee area during a time of financial difficulties for the non profit organization. He arrange artist from the country music community such as George Jones, Tanya Tucker and others to raise money for the American Red Cross.

Mr. Tidwell started and served as Director of the Honduras Hirasato Organization for the efforts of families in the mountains of Honduras to provide housing, educations and a productive life style for over 80 people. This group was started in 1998 as a result of the damages of Hurricane Mitch when these families lost all their belongings. Mr. Tidwell took over as CO-Director and General Manager in 2003 until January 2009. He and his partner build a completevillage for 85 people and gave them land, housing, a school,church and support to learn to develop a new life after the disaster. He has personally direceted and supported that effort financially.

Drawing on almost four decades of business and public service in the United States,Thailand, Honduras,Mexico,Brazil, China and Japan. Mr. Tidwell has developed strong relationships with a wide range of top governmental and political leaders around the world. He continues to wrok closely with most of these countries.

Mr. Tidwell is widely recognized as a leading authority on executive leadership system and business restructing. Over the past two decades he has been a frequent speaker for keynotes and political affairs. Mr. Tidwell has advocated the process of accountability, responsibility with the important of leadership and cross cultural relationship building system in businesses and across country borders.

Early career and education
After his formal education at Norman Park College in Bsiness Management, he joined the United States Marine Corps and served his country. He completed the leadership school of the US Marine Corps, considered one of the top two in the world. He returned to Georgia to start his career after the Marine Corps. He completed later in his career the executive leadership school of Kaizon and Six Signma along with grad courses in leadership and international management relations. He has been awarded numerous designations for his accomplishments in studies from various educational institutions in financial management and international development.

Mr. Tidwell worked in the Reagan Campaign efforts at a young age under the systems put in place by Ted Welch for the support of President Reagan. He was also selected to administer the "Just Say No" Program of Nancy Regan for the purpose of helping kids find an alternative to drug use. He later worked on the Fred Thompson Campaign when Senator Fred Thompson.

Mr. Tidwell s currently active in runing for the Unites States Senate in Colorado.

Personal
Mr. Tidwell has one son and one grandson. His son is an architect in South Florida.