Managing Partner, Perdue Realty Ventures
Greater Memphis Area
Managing Partner, Perdue Realty Ventures
Greater Memphis Area
Commercial Real Estate Investments, Development & Private Equity
Corporate Strategy
Internet Technology
Finance
Aviation Operations
(Real Estate industry)
April 1992 — Present (17 years 4 months)
Commercial Real Estate Advisory, Brokerage, Development, Investment and Private Equity Firm based in Memphis, TN.
(Financial Services industry)
April 1998 — December 2007 (9 years 9 months)
Digital-Leasing was a financial company I started with other investors to finance telecom and data equipment primarily for my Internet company and after I sold that and started my aviation consulting company - Iviation, and then we also financed some avionics for corporate aircraft.
(Airlines/Aviation industry)
1987 — April 2007 (20 years)
Iviation is an aviation consulting firm and networking portal for the aerospace industry.
Iviation provided various services primarily to Fortune 500 corporations such as operational and safety audits, human factors and CRM training, financial and fleet analysis, aircraft sales and acquisitions and recruiting.
Clientele include: Wal-Mart, Target, Lowe's, Principal Financial, Pfizer, Dow, Ford, Wachovia, Trident Seafoods, Jack Henry and Associates, General Mills, Kellog, Coke Bottling, First Horizon, Thomas and Betts, Bombardier Aircraft, Rockwell-Collins and dozens more.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USAF; Military industry)
May 1989 — December 2002 (13 years 8 months)
Flew various trainer, fighter and heavy aircraft worldwide. Instructed pilots from 50 nations and have about 6,000 hour of total time, an ATP, CFII, MEI, MEL and over 500 hours of combat support time during the Afghanistan war.
Flew numerous missions in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom in the War on Terror and Afghanistan and Operations Northern and Southern Watch over Iraq.
(Internet industry)
March 1997 — November 2001 (4 years 9 months)
ACCESS, LLC was sold in 2001. We were one of the first and largest broadband ISP's in Tennessee and one of the first in the industry to have a guaranteed 99.9% network uptime SLA. In 1999 we transitioned to a managed security provider and designed, implemented and managed VPNs, WANs, and security for corporate networks nationwide when it was sold in 2001.
Pilot , Aviation , 1990 — 1991
1983 — 1989
New technology, investing, business strategy, mountain biking, real estate, aviation, flying, scuba diving
Top 40 Under 40 - Midsouth 1998