I have 14 years of organized barter experience. I take pride in helping businesses A) Implement trade as a tool B) Adding sales and C) Converting their non- performing assets into goods and services. Born and raised in Cleveland, OH, John Carroll University Alumnus. I look forward to being your ITEX Guide.

I was born in Dallas yet raised in a cultural Mecca, Cleveland Heights, a nuclear free zone and in general a socialist inner tier suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. As a teenager I was convinced I should be the first ever GM of all three Cleveland sports teams. I majored in Economics and Political Science at Ohio State, where I bled scarlet and grey every fall Saturday in the football crazy state of Ohio. After college I wanted to sell the biggest thing I could think of and went into commercial real estate to sell and lease office buildings.

I loved the brokerage business but was sidetracked by my sports addiction and I went to work for the Cavs NBA and Arena during some dark days of the the NBA franchise. I lead the team in sales and was the only sales rep amongst all of the NBA teams to sell season tickets during the 1999-1998 NBA lockout. The internet boom and technology startups took my next focus away from labor disputes and sports. Anthony Forniti and Doug Dagenais brought me into the world of barter where I was part of the Tradaq and Intagio days. Plastic recycling, another broker trading business, has seasoned my business acumen and I look forward to trading with and for you.

Go Cavs Browns and Indians! Go Itex!

"The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals." -Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790, a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneering political economist.

I have 15 years of organized barter sales experience and was trading in the ad business for years prior to that. I look forward to the expanding horizons (and the new friendships!) made possible by joining forces with ITEX.