"After graduating from Fox Chapel, I went to Princeton University and majored in mathematics. (Certainly the Academic Games experience had already pointed me in that direction.) I graduated in 1972 and went on the SUNY at Stony Brook where I picked up a Master's degree in Mathematics in 1973. Prospects for a career as an academic mathematician did not seem as appealing as I first thought, so I switched gears during the 1972-73 academic year and applied to law schools. I wound up at Harvard Law School and graduated from there in 1976.

"My first job was back in Pittsburgh with the law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay. I spend seven years there as a corporate attorney before joining The Hillman Company, a private investment form, in 1983. My current work involves corporate finance, securities laws, mergers and acquisitions and commercial litigation. In addition, I have business responsibilities for private investments in heath care services, medical technology and consumer technology.

"My wife, Kathy, writes novels and stories for children, directs the program in writing for children at Chatham College, and participates in various writing and theater workshops in the Pittsburgh are. Between us we have a married son and two daughters, one married and the other about to graduate from college. Fours years ago we became grandparents and another grandchild is due in December. We enjoy life as empty nesters and like to ski, golf, and fix up our old house in Shadyside.

"Sometime in high school I developed and abiding interest in classical music which has remained with me over the years. I have a piano and a harpsichord in my dining room and play them as often as I can. For the past 13 years I've been a board member and former president of the Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh, which present concerts by internationally acclaimed performers of early music at Synod Hall and St.. Paul Cathedral in Oakland. (Check out our web site at www.rbsp.org ! I'd be very interested to know if other Academic Games competitor share this particular enthusiasm."