Brent Keck:  

I grew up in Kent, Washington and attended several elementary schools as we moved from house to house. The Elementary schools I remember attending were Meridian, Scenic Hill, Pine Tree and at least one other(may have been two others). I attended Sequioa Junior High School for my 7th & 8th grade years. Spring of my 8th grade year I left school a couple weeks before the end of the school year to travel Europe with my family for several weeks. During that summer we moved again, landing in Enumclaw Washington, where I attended Enumclaw High School until graduating in 1977. After High School, I attended Central Washington University and obtained a BS in Accounting, graduating in 1981. After graduating I passed the CPA exam in 1983. After College I worked for Pietro's Corporation (owned by Campbell Soup), Ellis Martin & Assoc (syndicated orchard partnerships), Select Business Ventures (tavel company), Magna Design (office furniture manufacturing) and US Marine/Bayliner (boat manufacturing). In the summer of 1989 I found myself between jobs again and decided to quit working for the "other guy" since I was always on the out for someone else's problem. So I took the novel approach of going into business for myself. In October 1989 I bought the Stanwood Dairy Queen restaurant. In 1994 we built the Sedro-Woolley Dairy Queen and opened it in June. I survived the ups and downs of that business and finally reached burn-out. In 2002 I found a buyer for the Dairy Queens and sold them in October and November of that year. I did retain ownership of the building in Sedro-Woolley and remain the lan...Expand for more