Your Trusted Real Estate Experts

2008 – 2015: Business Transition Specialists, St. Louis, MO; Principal in the only full-lifecycle Merger & Acquisition firm in the region helping clients buy, grow and sell businesses. Working primarily with private equity firms, secured a $110 million offer for 75% of a logistics company and a $2 million offer for 60% of an office equipment business.

2001 - 2008: R. E. Perry Co. St. Louis, MO. Completed major lease projects in New York, Boston, New Jersey, Atlanta, Chicago, Minnesota, Saint Louis, Fort Worth, and Denver primarily for the Home Depot Company. Completed Opinion of Value Projects for six marine terminals on the Ohio River for a Family Trust and agriculture land and a marine terminal on the Mississippi River for another Family Trust. Earned broker's license, the Transnational Referral Certification (TRC), the Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) designation, and completed the four required courses to receive the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation while with the R.E. Perry Co.

1989-2001: Weyerhaeuser Company, St. Louis, MO; Vice President of the Central Region Corrugated Packaging Operations and International Development. In Corrugated Packaging Operations, had P&L responsibility for twelve plants in the mid-west with over $500 million in annual sales. Major customers included Iowa Beef Products, General Mills, Quaker Oats, Fort Howard Paper, James River Paper and Maytag; International Development - responsible for partner agreements in Europe and packaging business in Asia, including the land and partner negotiations, the construction and the operation of two corrugated packaging plants in Wuhan and Shanghai, China, with a combined cost of over $35 million. The Wuhan plant's major customers were the Budweiser Wuhan Brewery and the Wuhan Coca-Cola Bottling Plant while the Shanghai plant supplied Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kimberly-Clark, Kodak and other multinational customers. Also responsible for the due diligence involved with the $96.3 million acquisition of the largest privately held corrugated packaging company in Asia, the Central Package Group, whose headquarters were in Singapore.

1987-1989: The Perry Group, St. Louis, MO President and Founder. Corporation formed to manufacture, and market a patented disposable soft tissue biopsy cutting device to the health care industry.

1963 – 1987: Owens-Illinois, Inc., Toledo, OH, Began in the Forest Products Division as a corrugated packaging sales representative in Virginia, followed by increasingly higher management positions in four plants before being named Vice President of the Central Region where P&L responsibility for six plants was maintained.  As Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Television Products Division, was responsible for TV and specialty glass manufacturing and over $200 million in sales to RCA, Zenith, Philips, Sony, General Electric, Mitsubishi and Toshiba.  Also had international responsibility for $100 million in equity holdings and license agreements in Japan, Korea, China, India, the U.S.S.R., East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Europe. 

Military service: Served five years as a pilot in the United States Air Force with the Strategic Air Command, primarily at Whiteman AFB, MO.

Education: University of South Carolina – B.S. in Accounting.

Past or present member of: National Association of Realtors, Missouri Association of Realtors, St. Louis Association of Realtors, Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) Institute, Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) Network, International Consortium of Real Estate Associations (ICREA) and Board Member and Treasurer of the Greater St. Louis China Business Forum, Inc.

Interests: Activities in St. Louis with wife,
Helen, two married children, six grandchildren and friends; golf; gardening and travel.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
CELL: (314) 308-3238; OFF: (314) 291-1200
EMAIL: [email protected]
ADDRESS: Office: 3801 McKelvey Road, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63044
Residence: 15339 Oaktree Estates Drive, Chesterfield, MO 63017-5462