March 3, 2010
Kyle Brodsky
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As a senior student at Boston University, 23-year-old Kyle Brodsky is looking forward to graduating this year and hopes to be a part of the America workforce by making the most of everything that he has learned and acquired in college. He is currently taking-up finance and entrepreneurship and has had his internship in New York at CBS. As a student, Kyle Brodsky’s normal days at the university consists of him attending all of his classes, doing his homework, resting a bit and working-out as part of his daily regime before hitting the sack.
As a graduate student, Kyle Brodsky is seen as someone who gets along with everyone; is a great listener and is a pretty relaxed individual. With regards to school work, he is usually in-charge of editing his team’s project plans and takes the lead when it comes to creating presentations.
In addition, Kyle Brodsky makes it a point to enjoy his college life before heading-off into the real world which is why he keeps his weekend fun and entertaining. As such, he has reserved Fridays night with friends where they get to go to bars, clubs and lounges. On Saturdays, he likes to work-out and read which is then followed by dinner dates and watching movies with friends. When Sundays roll-in, he opts to watch sports-related shows in addition to reading the “Times” which he finds to be informative and educational.
March 1, 2010
Jon James
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At only 19 years of age, Jon James became a mortgage banker. He bought and sold single family homes and apartment buildings in order to build his portfolio, becoming a full-time investor two years later. He began syndicating real estate and going into the self-directed IRA business to help his clients acquire all sorts of commercial real estate in 2005.
Jon James has built a successful real estate career, by all accounts. For him, his biggest achievement is marrying his beautiful wife. He specializes in all things self-directed at IRA Source, LLC where he is currently a Managing Partner. He has helped many IRA Source clients to invest in gold, real estate, businesses, and alternative investments.
Because Jon James wants to see inner city kids making it in the world where he has found a niche in, he shares his passion for making investments by doing volunteer work teaching inner city kids the basics of entrepreneurship and investing at James Academics and Development Corporation located in Compton, California.
In his spare time Jon James enjoys yoga, martial arts and reading books about quantum physics and spirituality. He likes to try new things, which could range from jumping out of an airplane to scuba diving or engaging in mind/body retreats. Mr. James serves on the board of advisors of Stone Equity Group.
February 25, 2010
Howard Goberstein
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Even though Howard Goberstein is very busy with his work as a CPA, he always saves enough time for his family and friends. For most times, Howard Goberstein’s schedule is already filled with activities, meetings and presentations usually for the whole week.
Still, however, no matter how busy or hectic Howard Goberstein’s schedule is, he always spares enough time for spending quality time with the members of his family. There are also times when he would rather spend some time alone in the gym so that he could work out in order to keep his body fit and right.
Howard Goberstein’s main goal with keeping himself fit and healthy is that he wants to be focused, not only for his work but for other matters as well. In fact, he has been very proficient in the way he attends to his clients from Mondays to Fridays. His clients have actually been with his services for over twenty-five years now. This proves that they like him and his services and that they believe in what he can do as a CPA.
Howard Goberstein has given word that his office is not as big as the offices of other people, but he does not give it that much thought because the size of his office was never a priority for him. Also, he does not want petty things or matters to be prioritized over his responsibilities.
February 22, 2010
Justin Povick
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Justin Povick enjoys the simple pleasure of reading a good book. His favorite authors include Mitch Albom and Francis J. Roberts. Aside from Christian non-fiction, he likes reading books like ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho, ‘The Shack’ by William Young, and ‘Come Away My Beloved’ by Francis J. Roberts. He also enjoys reading from the Bible and daily devotionals, a book guide to the Scripture and living life.
Justin Povick also enjoys sports like golf or tennis during his days off. Recently, Justin Povick took up running in order to train for his longest long yet. On May 2nd, he will be running his first half-marathon in Pittsburgh. He is preparing for this event by running two to three times a week. Other sports that he enjoys are table tennis, racquetball, tennis, volleyball and soccer. Skiing is also a favorite during winter. In the great outdoors, he enjoys camping, fishing or hiking. Aside from all these, Justin Povick is also a huge fan of the WVU (West Virginia Mountaineers). He likes to watch college football and basketball, live or on television. He also volunteers at the Centre County PAWS and in a local nursing home where he spends time with the elderly residents, listening to their stories and offering them words of encouragement.
February 18, 2010
Conrad Phillip Seghers
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Many options are open to the multiple degree-holder and a multi-skilled professional, Conrad Phillip Seghers. Though he chose to focus on his business and finance career in the last two decades, he continues to publish written works in his original field of specialization, which is science. An article he co-wrote with Alicia Todd-Corlett, Ellene Jones and Mary Jane Gething entitled, “Lobe IB of the ATPase Domain of Kar2p/BiP Interacts with Ire1p to Negatively Regulate the Unfolded Protein Response in S. cerevisiae” was published by the Journal of Molecular Biology in 2007.
An article entitled, “Characterization of Mutants Affecting the ATP-Binding and Hydrolysis Properties of Binding Protein from S. cerevisiae” written by Conrad Phillip Seghers was published in 1993 by the University of Texas – Southwestern Graduate School. While he was an undergraduate student of Zoology at Texas A & M University, Conrad Phillip Seghers co-wrote “Influence of fibrin and blood flow on recombinant human tissue-type plasminogen activator in rabbits” with Henri Bounameaux, Jean Marie Stassen and Desire Collen. This was published by Blood in 1986. This work was performed while Conrad Phillip Seghers was in Belgium.
Conrad Phillip Seghers is also an avid outdoor enthusiast. One of his passions is running marathons. He has now completed eleven of them, in locations ranging from Dallas, Austin and Oklahoma in the Texas area, to the New York marathon and San Diego marathon and Chicago marathon on the national arena, all the way to the Paris marathon and Singapore marathon on the international stage. His best time was in the Austin marathon, which had a favorable downhill slope with the rolling hills of the Hill Country region of Texas, to his worst time being the Singapore marathon where the heat and humidity stifled the runners.
February 18, 2010
Conrad P Seghers
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For the multi-skilled and multiple degree-holder, Conrad P Seghers, there were many paths wide open. He is no academic lightweight and continues to publish written works in his original field of specialization, even though he chose to focus on his business and finance career. Two years ago, an article entitled, “Lobe IB of the ATPase Domain of Kar2p/BiP Interacts with Ire1p to Negatively Regulate the Unfolded Protein Response in S. cerevisiae,” which he co-wrote with Alicia Todd-Corlett, Ellene Jones and Mary Jane Gething, was published by the Journal of Molecular Biology.
In 1993, Conrad P Seghers’ work “Characterization of Mutants Affecting the ATP-Binding and Hydrolysis Properties of Binding Protein from S. cerevisiae” was published by the University of Texas – Southwestern Graduate School. In 1986, the work entitled, “Influence of fibrin and blood flow on recombinant human tissue-type plasminogen activator in rabbits” co-written by Conrad P Seghers with Henri Bounameaux, Jean Marie Stassen and Desire Collen was published by Blood, when he was just an undergraduate student.
Conrad P Seghers has thus performed medical research on recombinant tissue plasminogen activator at the University of Louvain in Belgium, as well as on the reuse of hemodialyzers at Texas A&M University, and on heat shock proteins at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical center. Several publications have resulted.
February 16, 2010
Duane Tompkins
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One of the shining moments of Lt. Duane Tompkins’s (ret) career in the Enfield, Connecticut Police Department was when he was personally chosen by the Chief of Police to command the Detective Division of his police department. He was given this opportunity even while he was the Accreditation Manager assigned to work out the kinks in the department for the upcoming reaccredidation from the state. With this trust, Duane Tompkins wasted no time in making the most of his position and applied himself both on the accreditation and his division.
During his tenure, Duane Tompkins was able to decrease the number of onsite incidents by twenty percent, one of the best in the history of their department. He was able to get more search warrants and get a hold of more cases in a timely manner. The number of search warrants issued during his tenure rose 35%. With progress like this, it was very easy for him to get to the zero back log point where all his cases were taken cared of and resolved satisfactorily.
But even with all the things Duane Tompkins had done for the Detective Division, he never once neglected his duty as an Accreditation Manager. Mr Tompkins was able to drive the whole department to get the highest reaccredidation score in the last twelve years.
February 15, 2010
Patrick McEachen
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Being a child has never left Patrick McEachen merely dreaming about the career he always wanted. Even though he was still a child, he already knew what he wanted to be and decided that hockey was something he would definitely stick to for life.
The first person who inspired Patrick McEachen to be a NCAA hockey player was his own cousin named Mike Sullivan. This cousin of his played NCAA hockey for Clarkson University from 2003 to 2007, and Patrick McEachen always loved to watch his cousin play hockey.
Every time he had the opportunity to watch his cousin, Patrick McEachen was beaming with pride and he was always studying his cousin’s moves so that he could also learn the effective techniques and apply them to his own when he finally gets to play at this level.
Living in Stouffville, Ontario has never stopped Patrick McEachen from traveling to upper state New York just so he could watch his cousin play and learn a few tricks at the same time. Patrick McEachen feels confident that he will be able to play NCAA hockey in the near future.
February 12, 2010
Conrad Seghers
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Conrad Seghers received his PhD or his Doctor of Philosophy back in 1994. His best field was Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Another degree Conrad Seghers got was his M.S. or his Master of Science in the field of Biomedical Engineering. With this stated, it proved that Conrad Seghers was knowledgeable about the scientific part of medicine and also with the engineering aspect of medicine.
Conrad Seghers was not even done yet with his acquisition of degrees. Before his M.S., Conrad Seghers acquired his B. S. or his Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the Texas A and M University at the Texas College Station.
He demonstrated further intelligence when he was declared to be the class’s Summa Cum Laude. He ranked number one out of more than one thousand and forty-one students.
Also, Conrad Seghers was a member of many groups such as the Tau Beta Phi, Phi Eta Sigma and Alpha Eta Mu. The first one was a national engineering honor society. The second mentioned was given another name, which was the National Honor Society.
February 10, 2010
Bruce Caruth
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Bruce Caruth had an early retirement back in 2003. He was never doubtful about getting the sub-franchise rights for Exit Realty in four different states, namely, Washington, Kansas, Oregon and Missouri.
Bruce Caruth states that most might take a more careful approach with the business model of Exit Realty. However, he was able to analyze the business model for himself and he saw that it had success knocking at its door, especially with many benefits for both the real estate agent and the franchisee. Knowing this, Bruce Caruth chose to have approximately thirty franchised real estate offices in the aforementioned regions.
In 2003, Bruce Caruth company actually only had a few thousand real estate agents and had yet to sell more than half of the franchises that were available. Today, however, Exit Realty has more than fifty thousand associates. With that many associates, plus the hard work and dedication of each, it became the sixth largest company, in terms of real estate, in the whole North America. Moreover, it even got recognized as the number one New Real Estate Franchise Brand according to the Swanepoel Real Estate Trends Report.
Bruce Caruth is the right person to hold sub-franchise rights to a company such as Exit Realty because he is highly experienced. He started being a business consultant with Price Waterhouse, which is a consulting and international accounting firm.