I am now fully retired. I spent most of my working career employed by several multinational conglomerates. Starting out as a marketing trainee, I progressed through a series of increasingly senior marketing positions, and later, into general management. A critical responsibility, throughout my career, was to develop marketing plans, capital spending projects and annual budgets, working with small business units as well as larger ones. In addition to my corporate positions, I spent two years as a marketing consultant early in my career, and four years as a self employed, general business consultant at the end of it. If we establish a commonality of interest, I will be happy to furnish full details on my background.