United States Chief Executive

PK Semler

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Experience

Chief Executive Editor and owner

Capitol Intelligence Group, Inc -Turning Swords into Equity® Jun 2011 - Present (10 years 8 months +)

Forward looking financial news service for MENA, African American Business, Africa and AF-PAK/ Central Asia.

Chairman

Safe Harbor Global

Jun 2011 - Present (10 years 8 months +)

investigative Reporter - Special Project on Food Desert crisis The AFRO-American Newspapers

Apr 2021 - Present (10 months +)

Board Member

OKRA RESTAURANT GROUP INC

Jan 2014 - Present (8 years 1 month +)

The company was founded by Chef Richard Petty in San Francisco, California in 1994 and was reorganized in 2009. The company has numerous completed projects and projects in development to date. The company is a University of Southern California supplier/vendor and a vendor of the County of Los Angeles.

Okra Restaurant Group, Inc. has recently expanded to Tokyo, Japan and is beginning to make investments overseas in the region.

Editor-at-Large

SmartCEO

Mar 2016 - Jul 2019 (3 years 5 months)

Member Advisory Board/Shareholder (Independent)

SmartCEO

Jan 2016 - Jul 2019 (3 years 7 months)

Washington Bureau Chief

Mergermarket

Jan 2009 - Jun 2011 (2 years 6 months)

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Led gavel to gavel coverage of Dodd-Frank, build up bureaus in US Southeast and Texas. Published market moving scoops on Massey Energy, Dow Chemicals, International Coal, Constellation Energy. Tripled size of Washington DC bureau.

Editor and Founder Dealreporter EEMEA

Mergermarket

Jan 2008 - Jan 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Founded and launched FT Mergermarket's expanded coverage to Eastern Europe/CIS, Africa and Middle East/GCC.

Efforts regarding expanded coverage noted in Pearson (PSO:NYSE) earning reports. Bureau Chief for Italy, Switzerland and Eastern Europe/CIS Mergermarket

Jan 2002 - Mar 2008 (6 years 3 months)

Created first foreign bureau for Mergermarket based in Milan, Italy and set up and created reporting bureaus in Zurich, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow, Warsaw, Istanbul, Bucharest, Prague, Budapest, Dubai and Kiev.

Instrumental to USD 200m sale of start-up and subsequent earn-out to Financial Times in 2006 and small equity holder in company. Trade sale brought 50x return to New Media Spark. Special Correspondent to Insight, Business and Home News Sunday Times (London)

Mar 1991 - Mar 2002 (11 years 1 month)

Reported on Milan's Clean Hands corruption scandal; published front-page undercover expose on human trafficking from Albania to the United Kingdom. Italy correspondent

Bloomberg News

Mar 1991 - Mar 1993 (2 years 1 month)

Launched Bloomberg Business News in Italy.

Police/political reporter

City News Bureau of Chicago

Mar 1989 - Mar 1991 (2 years 1 month)

Covered homicides and Chicago politics. Duties included visits to Chicago morgue at 2 am, interviewing Chicago Mayor Daley and city aldermen and on spot reporting of homicides and major fires. Rome Intern

CNN

1990 - 1991 (2 years)

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Owner

Apartment Painting Business

Jun 1982 - Aug 1982 (3 months)

Set-up an apartment painting business for Western diplomats and businessmen in direct competition with Soviet monopoly UPDK. Hired US Marines and Seabees as painters. Education

City News Bureau of Chicago

Master's degree, Journalism

University of Chicago

Moral Education and Social Thought

St. Stephen's School

1984 - 1988

Skills

Italian • German • conversational French • Politics • International Relations • Public Relations • Editing • Journalism • Economics • Start-ups

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