Charles Bayless:  

Life Hello all you Bulldogs. Haven't been back to Midland since I left for college in 1960. The folks moved to Houston my freshman year and a return trip to Midland just never seemed to work out. But it has never been too far out of my thoughts, as some of my best years and memories were made on the plains of West Texas. After college and a government paid trip to the jungles of Southeast Asia, I got envolved with computers and spent several years as a programmng and operating system specialist before moving to marketing and sales. All that experience led me to form a computing company with several of my friends which we eventually sold. At ends with what to do next, I became a turnaround specialist for a venture capital firm and subsequently ran and sold two additional public companies, the last in 1998. Deciding a career change was in order, I became an investor, still doing some consulting work on the side, but spending most of my time trying to learn how to make money ...Expand for more