APSCU Board of Directors

business
experience

1987 – Present

ALTA COLLEGES, INC.                                                                            DENVER, CO

Vice-Chairman and Co-Founder.  Structured the acquisition of the Denver Institute of Technology which at that time had approximately $4.0m in revenue.  Over the past twenty years, I have had successive management roles that primarily focused on the student’s experience, quality of education, retention, and career services

Today the company has 19 on-ground campuses in six states and an online campus, with annual revenues over $300m.

1985 – 1987

GALENA CORPORATION                                                                CAMBRIDGE, MA

Vice-President and Co-Founder.  Raised a blind pool of equity capital.   Designed and successfully executed a search strategy to locate an acquisition candidate.

1981 – 1983

LEHMAN BROTHERS                                                                          NEW YORK, NY

1982 - 1983

Corporate Analyst, Financing Department.  Member of new capital markets group linking Corporate Finance with trading floor operations.  Actively involved in new product development, advised clients on debt and equity market movements and transactions, helped form shelf registration bids, automated and performed financial analysis for debt and equity offerings, and specialized in selling Lehman’s services to the banking industry.

1981-1982

Corporate Analyst, Corporate Finance.  Generalist on debt and equity offerings.  Assisted in merger fairness opinions, performed dividend and stock repurchase analyses, and developed an export finance model.

education

1983 – 1985

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION                                                          BOSTON, MA

Received Master in Business Administration in June 1985.  Awarded First-Year Honors.  General management curriculum with second-year electives in production and finance.  Member of Canadian, Venture Capital and Small Business Clubs.  Captain of Rugby Club.

1977 – 1981

STANFORD UNIVERSITY                                                                     STANFORD, CA

Received Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering.  Member of Stanford Rugby Club.  Freshman crew.  Represented Zeta Psi on Inter-Fraternity Council.

personal
background

Raised in Montreal.  Reasonably fluent in French with good knowledge of German and Spanish.  Have travelled extensively in Europe, Africa and North America.  Interests include squash, tennis, skiing, hiking, theatre and reading.