Carl Widell Associates

     Earlier in my career, I started a software company which was part of the team that programmed the first p/c based airline reservation software for America West (now American) Airlines. This company then acquired a company that performed epidemiology analysis for hospital accreditation and went public in 1996.

     I served as CFO of a regional insurance company, department manager at a natural hazard risk assessment company, and comptroller of a real estate and leasing company.

     I earned an A.B. in history at Princeton with concentrations in Asian studies and the economic development of modernizing nations.  My thesis focused on how the traditional culture of Japan aided its rapid transformation into a modern nation.  I have also completed three years of accounting at UCLA and taken MBA courses at Pepperdine University.  After Princeton I spend five years as a Marine Corps officer in combat in the air and on the ground in Vietnam.