gordon edwards:
CLASS OF 1961
Burlingame High SchoolClass of 1961
Burlingame, CA
gordon's Story
Left BHS for the Naval Academy at Annapolis Maryland with a Congressional appointment. Left after 3 years when I married which is not allowed and transferred to Stanford and graduated in 1965 with a degree in General Engineering ( pretty worthless degree but the one that allowed me to finish in one year). Left for a job proposition in Geneva, Switzerland with an investment firm and they sent me to Vicenza , Italy to run an office in an American Military base there and Verona and Aviano. Left that company and set up my own and after a year moved to Lausanne, Switzerland with financial backing from a group of investors from Midland ,Texas.. A year later we w...Expand for more
ere purchased by a Belgian Company and I transferred tio Brussels, Belgium to run that company with offices in Madrid , Rome, Beirut, , Kuwait and Bahrain.. Two years later I purchased the company and continued investment activities. In the late 70's my Naval Academy classmate and friend Roger Staubach who was playing for the Dallas Cowboys and in the off season for a major real estate firm in Dallas suggested I come over to Dallas to meet his company principals. I did and started immediately bringing Eiuropean investors over to Texas for real estate and oil and gas investments. I still do that and spend my time between Dallas and Brussels where I live..
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