Wall Street Vice President

Arthur Blank II Resume

Currently, I am winding down www.solotelecommunication.com, a company which has been providing diverse client businesses with telecommunication services since 1992. My focus was on sales, finance, and marketing.

The client base included 10% of Fortune 500 companies, including Levi Strauss & Company, Bausch and Lomb, General Electric, the States of New York and Delaware as well as the United States Department of Defense. I have dealt with high level senior management and served as expert witness to Digital Equipment Corporation, General Electric and Baush and Lomb, to name a few.

My first position after leaving the service, was on Wall Street where I was involved in new issues, mergers and acquisitions, institutional sales and running a 150-person stock and options branch office at 40 Wall Street.

After departing Wall Street, I worked with the international real estate firm of Cushman and Wakefield at corporate headquarters in New York as the assistant to the Executive Vice President of their industrial division for number of years prior to forming International Realty Group which ran for 7 years.

I am married and live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I have two entrepreneurial grown sons who run their own businesses, one in Costa Rica and the other in Phoenix.

I enjoy golfing (once a zero handicap), Skiing (no more black runs), mountain biking (no steep dirt trails), and I have a single engine pilot’s license, instrument, and commercial license.

I was the Chairman of the Board for 10 years for Big Brothers/Big Sisters Colorado Springs, a board member for the Fallen Firefighters Foundation, and was a consultant to Celebrate Technology Week, where I was one of the founding executives.

I possess a BS in Commerce Degree from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virgina as well as an MBA in Finance from Columbia Graduate Business School in New York, New York.

I served in the United States Army Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) specializing in counterespionage in the Far East.

I am currently working with VIA, an El Paso County Program, providing transportation for under the poverty line children to and from their school.

Among other job searches, I am looking for a position as an executive assistant to a corporate officer.

Thank you for taking the time to read this resume.