Michael Cichy:  

Hi It has been a while since I updated my personal page. Am trying to get caught up here as well as in linkedn and Facebook. These sites are here for us to expose our lives to those we have not seen in a while. Please excuse me if the attached text sounds conceited in any way. Like everyone my life has had its ups and downs but I prefer to focus on the positives...besides no one likes a whiner:) In 2008 I sold a distribution company I owned called New England Accents. It was a good run and alot of fun. I sourced home and garden products from around the world and sold them to garden centers in the Northeast and Canada. I did alot of travelling and really enjoyed the people and work. When the sale of the business was finalized I had every intention of taking it easy but that lasted about 6 months. I realized pretty quickly I would bore or party myself to death. Most likely one would influence the other. So I decided I had to do something to keep myself occupied. Prior to the distribution company I was like many of you in high tech, specifically software. My background is international sales and marketing and the travelling I did for many years helped me source products for my distribution business. In my high tech days leading up to 2001 I helped international software companies start their US operations. A company I founded ( Attache) would start the US business, grow it to 3-5 million in sales, hire the first round of permanent management, take a piece of equity out of the business and go do the same process again. I had some very nice success and some very big...Expand for more