Public Service

• Friends of Downtown, appointed January 2011.  http://www.friendsofdowntown.org/ 
• Des Plaines Library Board, appointed Nov 2010.  http://www.dppl.org/home/index.shtml
• USASBE V.P. of Finance, 1983-1991.  http://usasbe.org/ 
• USASBE, Vice-President, Various Divisions, 2003– 2008. http://usasbe.org/
• Editorial Review Board, Journal of Small Business Strategy, 2006-present.
           http://www.smallbusinessinstitute.biz/journals/jsbs.html 
• Editorial Review Board, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 2001-Present.
           http://whitman.syr.edu/JDE/
• Administrative agent for a statewide consortium entitled the Illinois Community Technology Consortium, 2005-2007.
• Civil Service Commissioner, City of Des Plaines.  1989-92 and 2000-2003.
• Senior advisor to University of Illinois-Chicago student-led teams providing consulting services to small and entrepreneurial businesses in the Chicago area,  1983 to present.