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First Name
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Bob
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Last Name At
Graduation
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Michelson
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Current Last Name
(if different)
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E-mail address
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bmichelson@goliathsolutions.com
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Website(s)
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Goliathsolutions.com
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Telephone Number(s)
h – w - c
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H: W: C: 847-867-5300
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Street Address
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136 Beach
Road
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City, State, Zip
Code
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Glencoe,
IL. 60022
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Country
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USA
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Family
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Married for 16 years to Loree Sandler. Three children….all boys 4, 6 and 9. The boys are energetic, athletic and constantly
in motion.
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CHS Memories (Friends, Funniest story, Teachers, Events, Activities, Sports,
Songs, Would like to forget…, etc.)
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Loved the education and warmth of the Clayton High School
community. I didn’t appreciate at the
time, how lucky we were to have such incredible facilities and faculty for a
class of less than 200. Good times
playing “spin the bottle” at Lesser’s; hanging out with the gang at the
corner of Davis Dr and Meramec; Talent Show ’74; Lou Deal’s physics class;
water polo, playing football on the island in front of Moog and Eidelman’s,
the first time listening to Tommy by The Who.
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After High School (Career, Accomplishments, Favorite Activities,
Message to classmates…, etc.)
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College at University of Michigan,
Washington University and Indiana University. My professional career was launched at
IBM. I spent five years selling the
“big computers’ to Fortune 500 companies.
My partner for the first 18 months was John Chambers (current CEO of
Cisco). Subsequent to IBM, I have
spent the 22 years as an entrepreneur in the technology sector. I have operated five companies as president
and sold all with the exception of the current venture, I started three years
ago. The life of an entrepreneur is
filled with high risk, great potential rewards, terrific stress and lots of
hours of work. You might of heard of
one of my companies….FastWEB (the largest web based scholarship search
service….with over 1/3 of all high school students using the services and
over 5,000 new registrants every day….we sold the company to Monster four
years ago. I also have spent
significant time in the volunteer community and started a program to educate
high school students in the Chicago’s inner-city on the use of technology. We built a curriculum, found and trained
volunteer teachers and started in one school.
The City of Chicago took over the program several years ago…..and the
initiative is now in 18 high school in Chicago and has impacted over 8,000
high school students
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