Kerry J. Fulton was raised in Sioux City, Iowa before being drafted into the Army.. He was
honorably discharged after two years of service with the rank of Sgt. E-5.
Mr. Fulton obtained a Bachelor of Science in Business at Drake University and began his career
as in retail merchandise management. After a short stint at Macy's in Kansas City, he was recruited to open and manage a
15,000 sq. ft. store for a retail chain headquartered in Minneapolis. A short time later, Kerry changed his
career by joining the securities industry.
Kerry was a top producer as a
registered representative for a national firm, and later became a branch manager, and then a Regional Vice
President over a 6 state area. After 18 years with that company, he moved back to Kansas City and became the National
Sales Manager for full service securities Broker/Dealer. Six years later, a company which was headquartered in the
Dallas/Ft. Worth area, and provided services to securities industry Broker/Dealers, hired Kerry to develop a business
plans, assemble sales staffs, and write marketing materials for it's clients.
Fulton obtained his CFP (Certified Financial Planner), designation in 1983. In many of his
previous jobs he trained financial planners, taught personal finance and financial planning courses for his representatives
as well as for the general public. He also taught personal finance at Thomas More College and Johnson County Community
college as full credit courses.
Mr. Fulton has been a member of
several different Chamber of Commerce organizations. He has served on Chamber committees, boards of directors and the
executive committees. He is a Kentucky Colonel, a Tennessee Squire and a member of Mensa.
Fulton is currently doing sales and marketing consulting for small businesses.
Kerry has 4 daughters and 1 (soon to be 2) grandchildren. He enjoys helping people grow their
business through asking interesting and creative questions. He has a unique ability to think "outside" of the box when
looking to solve problems or analyze situations.
Kerry is happy to be involved with
Long and Short Reports and enjoys writing financial planning articles to help people know "what to look for and what to
look out for" in their personal and business financial planning.
Matt
Groesbeck:
Matt Groesbeck is a freelance
journalist who works out of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was raised in Albany, New York, and at a young age, quickly
developed a passion for words, numbers, and the news. Matt was a student-founder, President, and athlete of the
University of Utah Ice Hockey Club, which won the Division II Rocky Mountain Collegiate Hockey Association league title last
season. He still contributes health, sports and entertainment features for two University of Utah publications, along with
his weekly industry analysis column for Long and Short Reports .
Matt has a long history of literally working on the front lines of health care. He
spent three years responding to 911 calls as an EMT, a year in Sports Medicine, and more than four years in
pharmaceuticals. But whatever the work or research, Matt has a penchant for accuracy, relevance and results. His
current project is a feature on the booming Dietary Supplement Industry in a Welcome 2002, Olympic Souvenir Magazine
, with an anticipated circulation of nearly half-a-million copies during the Salt Lake 2002 Winter
Olympics.
In his free-time, Matt enjoys
chess, roller hockey and science fiction.
Leonard Vaughn Mauck:
Lenny Mauck is a 47 year-old former securities professional. He was raised on a
large farm in Southern Indiana. He received his undergraduate degree from DePauw University, in
Greencastle, Indiana in 1975, with a major in Political Science. He attended law school for one year at
Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, Texas before taking a two year leave of absence. He decided not to return to
law school and instead, embarked upon several business ventures.
During part of the 80s, Mr. Mauck was a principle in the firm, Petsch & Mauck, an
important importer of fine gemstones, which represented several of Idar-Oberstein, West Germany's largest stone cutting
firms. Petsch & Mauck's core business was in supplying jewelers, gem dealers, and manufacturing jewelers with fine colored
gemstones. Lenny eventually sold his interest in Petsch & Mauck to his German partner, and worked with an Israeli
diamond cutter for a short time during 1987. In an attempt to pursue a life-long passion for the stock market, he
became a registered securities broker in the latter part of 1987.
Mr. Mauck successfully worked for a few of Wall Street's best firms, including Dean
Witter Reynolds (now Morgan Stanley), Rauscher Pierce Refsnes (now Dain-Rauscher), and Everen Securities (now
First Union) during the late 80s and 90s. He was an active daytrader and swing
trader, long before the terms became commonly known by the general public. In order to enhance the effectiveness
of his trading activities, he developed a technical timing model during the 90s, which he is utilizing here at Long
and Short Reports. He left the business in February of 2001.
Mauck enjoys golf, chess, automobiles, and of course, the stock market. He lives in
Dallas, Texas with his son, Justin.
Jim Salim:
Jim Salim grew up in the small Louisiana town of Natchitoches in the late 1950s. His prudent father, a
successful crop duster, and first generation immigrant, taught his son to go slow in life, as that was meant to be the way to achieve
real prosperity.
But Jim was a roadrunner and you can't
tell a roadrunner to go slow. From the moment he first saw a copy of the Wall Street Journal in a trash can when he was
10 years old, he has had a love affair with the markets.
From these modest roots he made his first
million by age 27. By age 29, he was broke. He recovered, fine tuned his trading skills, and made a couple of more
fortunes along the way.
At the peak of his success he had a close
call with cancer that set him on thinking. Soon, he launched a multi-year project to develop a luxury home community on a promising
piece of property in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. He was planning to build something big and tangible.
Instead, six years later and 14 million down the drain, a group of investment bankers from the blue
chip firm, Credit Suisse-First Boston, talked him into swapping his project for stock in a company that turned out to
be three heartbeats from bankruptcy. The story of his investing career and that swindle by a group of Wall Street
investment bankers is the focus of Jim's controversial book, The Great Wall Street Swindle.
Salim lives in Dallas with his wife, MaryAnn, where he continues to actively trade the
markets.
