Background Information - Edward H. Smith

Ed is a 1970 graduate of Dartmouth College with a life-long career as an independent business and financing consultant. His experience in venture capital began with his engagement to speak at the TECHNOLOGY/IMPEX New Inventions and Products Expo at Monroeville, PA in the early '80s hosted in cooperation with the US Department of Commerce. Also in the 1980s, Ed's business group was offered the opportunity to develop and deliver a small business management short course at the University of New Hampshire and his work history included the development and marketing of a derivative application of one of an earlier database software (R:BASE). From 1991 to 1995, Ed represented a group of private Pacific Rim investors with respect to buying some properties from failed banks as well as evaluating venture capital investments. This provided an "up-close and hands-on" exposure to, and experience with, the shortcomings of both the federal government and legal system to equitably deal with and resolve market failures which were the proximate result of what appeared to be "government-enhanced" speculation.

For the past 10-15 years, Ed has continued his small business consulting activities and, at the same time, conducted a great deal of research which has formed the basis, and organization of, American Voters for Fiscal Reform in January of 2007. He is intimately familiar with the civil legal process and its relationship to the self-serving interests of political factions and special interests; all at the cost and expense of unsuspecting consumers and taxpayers.

In fact, Ed believes that we are now faced with a set of circumstances which dwarf the bank and market failures of the late '80s and early '90s and are unparalleled in U.S. history. For this reason, his current focus is on helping folks deal with the ominous set of circumstances which now threaten everyone's financial well-being and the very core of American enterprise; at a price that everyone can afford.



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