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Education:

 * Yale University, New Haven, CT – BA Political Science – 1958
 * US Army – Infantry Officer’s school (Ranger – Airborne qualified) – 1960
 * Tufts Univ. Fletcher School of Int’l Law and Diplomacy, Medford, MA – MA Economics – 1962

Turnaround:

 * Founder and CEO: Arnav Systems, Inc.  (Salem, OR) - an avionics navigation manufacturing company one generation before GPS.  Took a defunct marine electronics company from negative valuation of $1.8 million to undisputed market leadership while priced 30% higher than its major competitor (TI). Management and employee focus on / commitment to / quality led to a zero product failure-rate ( * ) over four years and a sales price of $6 million. (Held minority interest. Prime was about 18% at the time of sale.)                                                                    1980-1984

Turnaround:

 * COO Interchecks, Inc.  (Seattle, WA) Prepared $40 million, 1200 employee loss-making printing company for sale for Canadian owner and CEO.  After 3 years of increasing losses and a “soft” book value of $17 million under prior management brought in new management team and oversaw sale after three years for $24 million. (Was not a shareholder.) With same management team one year later achieved sale price of $40 million on revenues of $50 million with 1,000 employees based on strong earnings / quality of reputation as a supplier to major banks. 1985-1988

Failed turnaround:

 * CEO American Sign and Indicator, Inc.  Spokane, WA. Manufacturer of athletic scoreboards for college and professional teams.  Sold for $1 by NYSE owner (Leucadia) to offset capital gains elsewhere.  New owners stripped assets – Spokane lost 300 jobs.                      1988-1989

Served in Oregon State legislature for two terms.                                                          1979 and 1981.

 * Ranked 3rd most effective legislator freshman year (out of 60 in House, 30 in Senate) for leading a successful revision of statues re-allocating funds between the three major state universities and strengthening the Community College system.  Introduced legislation to require:    (1) the state to adhere to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) overcoming strong resistance of Executive branch.  Oregon was the second State to do so, and (2) require the merger of its two investment accounts to forestall possible default of one mismanaged fund with multi-million $ implications. Ran unopposed second and last term.

Country Director Romania – Bulgaria for Citizens Democracy Corps

 * an initiative of President, George H W Bush to assist in transition from command to market economies in East Europe.       1990-1993

CEO Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp.  (Cordova, AK)

 * Seriously damaged by the Exxon-Valdez oil spill, “PSWAC” owed the State $30 million with no plan in place to repay. Was unable to gain majority of 42-member board – all fishermen - on restructuring plan. Resigned.          1994-1996

Co-Founder Paxton International – Kabul. 			                                            2003-2008

 * In 2003 opened the Kabul office of this global freight forwarder with one truck driver.  In 2005 hired and began training the Afghan who assumed full P&L responsibility for the company in January, 2009.  Paxton now has 50 employees with revenues in excess of $8m. It dominates its market sector with a consistent focus on training and setting a global industry standard for quality service. The company generates consistently strong margins.  (Did not hold an ownership interest.)
 * > Paxton Kabul’s template for success is directly tied to being Afghan-led by its young, college-educated Managing Director with on-going mentorship and an unrelenting commitment to supportive employee training from its US Head Office.  (TA not active since January 2009.)

Country Director Afghanistan for Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program.                   2004-2008

 * Actively recruited 10th grade Afghan boys and girls from multiple provinces for one year State Department-funded YES scholarship and private foundation programs in US public and private schools. The Afghan students selected performed exceptionally well academically and socially across the board.  Diversity was achieved through recruiting from 14 provinces in 2004 to 21 provinces in 2008 with most travel done by automobile. Between 2,000 and 3,000 students took the initial test each year. They went through 4 increasingly difficult steps to final interviews for approximately 240 students from which 40 finalists were selected. While gender equality was a major goal, parental hesitation about sending daughters to America for high school limited the female participation rate to an average of about 40%.
 * Many YES alumni and private scholarship winners subsequently entered highly ranked under-graduate colleges and universities in the US with exemplary academic and leadership achievements. These included, among many others, Bates, Bucknell, Middlebury, Mt. Holyoke, Richmond, Russell Sage, St. Lawrence, Simmons, Smith, Wellesley, Williams and Yale.
 * Graduate degrees have been earned by YES students from Columbia (MA Economics), Tufts (MS in Public Health) and Simmons (MBA in Health Management).  One is currently enrolled in Yale law. Senior positions are currently held by YES alumni in Kabul in secondary education, public healthand electrical engineering (Kabul University).
 * Resigned as Country Director June 2008 due to inability to influence the program’s DC-based head
 * office that unless priority attention was paid to assisting returning students to find jobs and preparing college applications that continuous defections to Canada had to be accepted as a given. SOLA (see below) was created in October, 2008 to address this need.  The YES program was subsequently closed-down in 2010 in Afghanistan by the US Ambassador for this reason.

Co-Founder / Director Emeritus SOLA.                                       2008-2018
Inspired and named by a successful YES student while still a junior in college, SOLA opened its doors on October 1, 2008 to four female students.

www.sola-afghanistan.org
”The School of Leadership, Afghanistan is an Afghan-led private boarding school for Afghan girls, the