Jose Blanco:
CLASS OF 1974
Saguaro High SchoolClass of 1974
Scottsdale, AZ
Jose's Story
My identity at Saguaro High was playing basketball, even though I played football and baseball my freshman year. I had great teammates - Jim Scroggs, Dave Hainlen, Fred Trump. John Hall. I remember the great coaches and teachers and classmates. I remember dating great young ladies and made good friends.
The 1970s were pretty confusing but exciting for young people. It was a great place to go to high school.
After graduating from high school I went to live and play basketball at the Real Madrid (junior team) and lived there for a year. Came back a year later and graduated from Scottsdale CC in 1977 and transfered to Saint Michael's College (Vermont) o...Expand for more
n a basketball scholarship. I graduated in 1979 and went to work for Aetna Insurance Company in their investment area (my undergraduate degree was in economics). In 1980 I married Juli Ann Rush from San Diego. We have been married 33 years with 3 kids (who grew up as nice people).
In 1982, I went to New York and then Europe to work for AIG Insurance in their investment area. In 1992 we returned to the U.S. and I pursued an PhD in Economics. After the PhD, I was a professor at Utah State, Saint Mary's college and Ohio State. In 2003 I launched a private equity fund based in California where reside today with about about $150M of assets under management.
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