Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: SUNDAY, April 3, 1994 TAG: 9404020008 SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: F1 EDITION: METRO SOURCE: DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
W, the mass-audience magazine produced by Women's Wear Daily. Helped "bring into reality."
Frigid Freeze Foods, now PYA-Monarch Family business in Salem that he ran from 1973 to 1986, when it was sold to Sara Lee Corp.
PYA-Monarch Stayed two years working for new owner
Furniture/Today, High Point, N.C., trade newspaper One of four founding investors and chairman of board. The publication was sold in 1986.
Country magazine Helped start the publication with a friend in 1979; the magazine was sold in 1983.
Frozen food co-op Director, vice chairman and chairman in 1984; resigned 1986.
Valley Motorsport Invested in 1981 with three other partners; ended up as sole owner and operator in late 1980s; sold the Roanoke dealership in February 1994.
Warsaw Industrial Center, Warsaw, Poland Current venture with two partners.
Portable blood-serum analyzer business The example he uses as a failure when he lectures to graduate students; he was investor until 1986.
Valley Bank One of 14 Roanoke area investors attempting to organize and open a commercial bank.
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