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Thursday, February 4, 2010

It takes a great deal of strength to be who I pretend to be, but to have to be who I really am.



It takes a great deal of strength to be who I pretend to be, but to have to be who I really am.

- Douglas Castle


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Comment: The most difficult part of my mission in life is to have to say the things that others are thinking, but which they are too frightened or ashamed to acknowledge. Maybe the purpose served by this is that in my giving these silent thoughts a voice, someone, somewhere, will know that he or she is not really alone.

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Douglas Castle

Professional Resume

 

 

 

Mr. Castle is a seasoned and acclaimed advisor, director and trustee to emerging enterprises and growing companies worldwide, across a broad variety of industries on matters of organizational development, strategic planning, financing (both institutional equity and debt), international incorporations and negotiating of co-ventures, mergers and acquisitions. He innovated and developed the concept of the Global Interworked Cooperative Business Community™ (GICBC™), and the concept of the Cooperative Business Community™ (CBC™). Mr. Castle’s current passions are centered upon leveraging his wealth of experience in organizational engineering, strategic planning and financing to foster innovation and entrepreneurial growth and success.

 

Mr. Castle’s professional resume has encompassed: international banking, asset-based financing, merchant banking (equity), factoring, trade financing, credit enhancement and surety, transactional structuring (mergers, acquisitions, LBOs, ESOPs, management buy-outs, transnational and domestic co-ventures) and the creation of investment instruments. He has written and presented operating plans for, and has chartered a number of international commercial and economic development banks and reinsurance companies in multiple offshore and international jurisdictions, with an aggregate capitalization of in excess of $12.8 billion USD. During the past thirty years, he has also incorporated close to one hundred IBCs (international business companies) across all business sectors. He has worked as a turnaround expert for troubled US and UK companies, and has renegotiated loan terms with banks, other creditors, bondholders and shareholders for these companies, both as pre-bankrupts, and as debtors-in-possession and trustees-in-possession.

 

Mr. Castle’s current affiliations include: Co-Chairman and CEO of TNNWC Group, LLC; Director and Senior Consultant of The Castle Consultancy; Managing Director and Member of Global Edge Technologies Group, LLC, and others. You can obtain more information about Douglas Castle’s personal, education and professional background by visiting either http://www.linkedin.com/in/douglascastle, or http://aboutDouglasCastle.blogspot.com .

Some of Mr. Castle’s prior engagements have included: Senior Financial Analyst In Charge Of Special Projects for National Westminster Bank, plc; Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Banking, Finance and Investments at Hofstra University; Director of Capitol Guaranty Surety Company Inc., Director of First Empire Capital Corporation and First Empire Autolease, Inc., Intelligence Contractor for Kroll International and numerous others.

 

Mr. Castle received his B.S. in Economics from Stony Brook University (1976), with Omicron Delta Epsilon honors (as well as a New York State Regents Scholarship), and he received his MBA in Public Accounting from The Hofstra University Graduate School Of Business (with a graduate fellowship) in 1979.

 

Mr. Castle is a prolific writer about topics relating to Internationalism, Futurism, Leadership, and a variety of other non-financial topics. He authors a number of blogs and is active in social media, publicity and branding campaigns for select clients. A sampling of some of these blogs follows:

 

THE GLOBAL FUTURIST – http://TheGlobalFuturist.blogspot.com

THE INTERNATIONALIST PAGE – http://TheInternationalistPage.blogspot.com

TAKING COMMAND! – http://TakingCommand.blogspot.com

BRAINTENANCE – http://Braintenance.blogspot.com

HUMANITAS MAXIMUS – http://HumanitasMaximus.blogspot.com

LINKS 4 LIFE – http://lifelinksIEP.blogspot.com

Radio DAZZ – http://RadioDAZZ.blogspot.com

GICBC – http://GICBC.blogspot.com

 

Note: You can receive a download of Douglas Castle’s professional resume in a .pdf format by clicking on http://bit.ly/DouglasCastleResume