Family: Wife, Joyce; son, Josh, 19; daughter, Simone, 16
First job outside of real estate: Newspaper reporter
First job in real estate or allied field: Executive director, Community Housing Improvement Program (RE Trade Association)
What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? Trying to build US Energy from a successful regional family business to a national presence in energy control and monitoring.
Hobbies: Reading, sailing, skiing
Favorite book: Too many to count
Favorite movie: Any Indiana Jones movie
Person you admire most: My late father (family); outside of family it would be historian William Manchester, for the depth of his work and understanding of his own times.
Keys to success: Persistence and timing. One helps if you mess up the other.
If you had to choose another vocation what would it be? Columnist. I have lots of opinions.