Case Studies and “Things I have learned”.

I have written, advised, and been given Speaking opportunities on a number of topical areas and areas of both personal and industry interest. When we were developing the website, my colleagues and friends encouraged me to share them. I have attempted to avoid any references where conflicts exist while balancing with full disclosure to enlighten the interested (Hopefully!) reader.
 

Business Experience

Touche Ross & Company

International Management Group

Pacific Sports Corporation

Pacific Sports, LLC

Caress Insurance Agency, Incorporated

Consultations (refer to “Consultations” Menu)

  • Peloton (IPO)

  • Mass Participation industry global analysis

  • Wanda Group (Ironman) (IPO)

  • Eventbrite

  • Active Network (IPO and Vista PE)

  • Photography platforms for events/conferences

Lifestyle and Mass Participation Sports Cases and Expertise

Governing Bodies

Valuation

Bureaucrats

Work Backwards from the press release

Featured Speaker for Mass Participation World (MPW) June 4, 2020 Webinar

Hosted by chris Robb

“The New Normal - What insurance considerations do you need pre, during, and post-Covid”

How I Got Here

Academic Career

Professor, Chapman University, 1986 to 1997. Director of the Freshman Seminar 1993- 1996

Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco

Adjunct Professor, UC Irvine

Lecturer, Cal Poly Pomona

Lecturer, Pomona Pitzer

Founder Of:

Sportech Inc. (the first triathlon Pro Shop)

Pacific Sports LLC

Triathlon America, Inc.

Triathlon Business International, Inc.

Toyota Lifetime Fitness Triathlon Series

 

Favorite Quotes
 

 
 
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, April 1910. The "Man In the Arena" speech which affected me then and when I first read it when I was a college student. I have never wanted to be anywhere but in the arena.
 
 
 
“You have 3 choices. You can get on the train. You can get off the train. Or, you can wave from the station as the train goes by. But you have to make a decision”
— I have used this quote on many occasions, but I am not sure of its source.
 
 
 
 
““I think all of France has passed me””
— Jack Caress, 1987 Nice Triathlon World Championship. I was the athlete CBS broadcast chose to cover that day. On the bike and after 3 broken spokes in the Maritime Alps, I wondered aloud (and to the camera) what the hell I was doing. I did finish.
 
 
 
 
“Who said economists are not brave”
— Oliver North after my introduction of him at Chapman University in 1994
 
 
 
 
“Steak Knives”
— To lighten the mood in a tense negotiation with Andrew Messick (then President of AEG Sports) and our teams on the L'Etape du California cycling event, I gave my favorite line (from Alec Baldwin) from Glengarry Glenross on what the loser gets. He was the only one who got the line and he and I laughed like hell. It broke the mood when we both cracked up. Everyone else had no idea why we were laughing and we ended up explaining what was so funny. Changed everything.
 
 

“Only when I am alone or with someone”

Robert Wayne Caress. Dad to me. When someone asked him if he every liked a cocktail.

A young lad when I heard it. .