Chris Wilhelm:  

After high school, I went through the UC system where I eventually graduated from Berkeley. In fact, I graduated a few times as I seemed to have accidentally spent most of the 70's being a professional student. I was eventually recruited by a big advertising agency in Chicago where I spent the first seven years of my professional life managing packaged goods accounts. After that, I returned to the Bay Area. Chicago is where I met my first wife, Debora, and mother of my two kids, Matthew and Kelly. She and I have remained close friends over the years, though I am now remarried to a lovely woman named Karen. She has two daughters who are exactly the same ages as my kids. Matthew is a student at the University of Arizona and Kelly is a student at Berkeley. My current wife and I live near Patterson in the Diablo Grande community near Patterson, CA. She works just a few minutes away at a power plant where she's the business/finance manager. In our spare time, we lose dozens of golf balls on the two community courses. Over the last thirty years, I have bounced between the agency and client-side of marketing communications and, for the immediate past ten years, have been a hired gun, working as an independent marketing consultant. You can...Expand for more