User:Larry hales

Larry Hales (Born September 18, 1948) was the first African-American Director for a Vietnam Era veterans jobs program mandated from the White House under President Gerald Ford and reappointed by President Jimmy Carter.

Hales acted as a liaison between the Veterans Administration headquarters and the National Alliance of Business a business and labor organization both headquarted in Washington. As the liaison Hales interfaced with the Chairman's of Fortune 500 companies to set up programs so they could hire Vietnam Era veterans and get government contracts for doing so.

Hales himself is a Vietnam Era veteran who served aboard the USS John F. Kennedy as an Administrative officer.

He is also one of the first ever to help coordinate the initial White House Conference for Small Business under the Carter administration.

Following the 911 attacks on America, Hales relationship with President George Bush lead to an advisor role with Dr. Robert Pohanka the Under Secretary of Defense (Science & Technology) human capital strategy for DeVenci. The mission of DeVenci was to find and qualify emerging technologies that could help the Department of Defense in biotechnology, nanotechnology, cybersecurity,energy and space.

In January of 2013 Larry Hales was invited to the White House to visit with Valerie Jarrett the senior advisor to President Obama and Todd Park the United States Chief Technology Officer and assistant to the President. During this private session briefing the discussion was on how the White House could best spend the remaining $3.5 billion dollars on broadband technology. The funds were left over from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Fund.

Early Life

Hales spent most of his early years in New Orleans, where he was born, growing up in the 9th ward neighborhood.

In high school he played basketball, football, baseball and ran on the track team.

Following high school he was recruited by many major colleges to play football. He considered Tarkio College, Tarkio Missouri the same school Senator Mark Rubio atttended. Larry even accepted a football scholarship to Marshall University but turned it down. Later the Marshall University football team airplane crashed. He did play college football at Stephen F. Austin and the school won its first bowl game.

Larry's college mentor and coach, John Levra went on from college coaching to 22 seasons in the NFL. Coach Levra coached in Chicago, Denver, Buffalo, New Orleans and Minnesota and Coach Levra awarded Larry with tickets including super bowl tickets to many NFL games over his career in the NFL.

Larry was recruited by the United States Navy Recruiting Command to attend the United States Navy Nuclear Engineering School.

Career

Hales held position on Capitol Hill, including Director of Vietnam Era Veterans JOBS program for the White House under President Ford and Carter.

In 1975, he founded Larry Hales Consultancy, a Washington,DC "government relations and business development" firm. Now known as the Hales Global Group LLC, the firm has close ties to both the Democratic and Republican Party and the Obama administration (and) has been retained by some of the biggest corporations in the country, including www.halesglobal.com AT&T, Boeing, Ford, GE, General Motors, HP, ITT, IBM, Northrop Grumman, Pitney Bowes, Raytheon, Texas Instruments and many other companies including foreign companies.

Greatest Help Success Story

Virginia Company-Government Contractor-Payroll Funding of $500,000 In Five Days The client: Williams Contracting Services, based in Virginia needed emergency help.

Situation: In business for four years, the company hit a growth spurt and needed fast funding to be awarded another federal government contract. They had a huge payroll, they had fell behind on their payroll taxes and the IRS put a lien on their business. Their bank cut them off immediately, on a Monday. But they had a huge payroll to meet on Friday, just five days away.

They contacted Larry Hales.

He found their track record was clean and the dilution was very small. He agreed to help them out, but he had to move quickly.

The Challenge: We needed to get the IRS to subordinate their lien, and the IRS would normally take a month and a half to do, if they if they did it at all. But we knew where we had to turn for help and contacted a dear friend from Commerce Funding now Wells Fargo Banking Gleen Noble Vice President.

Working together, we devised a plan for Dr. and Mrs. Williams to get the relief from the IRS and the $500,000 invoice factoring line of credit to meet the deadline that was just days away.

During this time Dr. Williams was in the last stages of fighting off cancer and his wife needed hand-held support.

Larry Hales was able to get factoring in place in less than five days and the company met their payroll funding deadline on Friday and the IRS worked with the client, a critical component for their continued business success until the business was sold.

Recent Years

Hales founded and is currently Chair of the Center for Wall Street Reform, a progressive Think Tank in Washington, DC and Advisor to the Center for American Investment Progress Action Committee. He is also a member of the Wall Street Project Bipartisan Committee. He has served as a director on the Iraqi Association For Building Opportunities In Iraq.

During the BP oil spill crisis Larry Hales briefed BP chairman Tony Blair during the Congressional hearing. He also held discussion with BP leadership at the BP office in London.

In early 2013 Larry Hales had a budget conversation with House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan. www.halesglobal.com

In 2009, Hales authored his book Understanding Stimulus Opportunities. In it, he articulates a vision of progressive values based on relationship building.

In March of 2009, Hales was invited to a VIP dinner hosted by President Obama. The discussion was centered on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Fund.

Most recently Hales has held talks at the White House with the Chief Technology Officer Todd Parks on cybersecurity, digital technology, cloud, and FedRamp.