My experience includes pain from being forced out of two companies. The second resulted in a divorce I did not want, bankruptcy, and having my entire life turned upside down. At that time my brother was working as a consultant in Indonesia and called to invite me to visit him. I did and wound up staying there for six years. While there I met and married the most beautiful person in my life, Renny, my wife.
My first Indonesian contract was as Director of the MBA program for IEU Institute Of Management, a top ten private university. It was and is owned by Abdul Gafur, former Minister of Sports under former President Soeharto. In 2006 Bpk. Gafur became Governor of Maluku. His wife is Kemala Motik one of the wealthiest families in Indonesia. Both are very politically well known and active. After a year at IEU the Indonesian government changed the university system motivating me to do other things. My wife and I purchased P.T. Cosmorindo Megah a licensed business consulting, import and export company. I worked on development projects for education and science training and GOI water projects funded by KFG - Germany, World Bank and Asian Development Bank. In 1996 I negotiated a multi-million dollar pro basketball deal for Indonesia. It required that we provide funding, marketing and pro basketball support from the U.S.. My partners were the Indonesian pro basketball league (KOBATAMA/PERBASI) and the brother of Bpk. Harmoko the Minister of Communication. Bpk Harmoko was also the President of DPP Golkar President Soeharto's political party and Chairman of Basketball. After eighteen months, ten round trips from Indonesia to the US, investing $300,000 and traveling all over the U.S. and Indonesia the deal came together. On November 1, 1997 President Soeharto appeared on Indonesian national TV with Paul Wolfowitz, former Ambassador to Indonesia and Chairman of the International Monetary Fund. He announced that the Indonesian economy was in a tail spin and the next day 29 major banks in Indonesia would be closed. This was the ripple effect from the devaluation of all Southeast Asian currencies that started in Thailand. In January 1998 we returned to Orlando hoping part of our project could be salvaged. It was an "exclusive" licensing agreement with P.T. Dong Joe, an Indonesian/Korean joint venture manufacturing company to market Spotec sports shoes in the U.S.. However, President Soeharto was forced out of office in May 1998 and the country went into a turmoil so we were not able to return or salvage the deal. Three months after arriving back in America our beautiful daughter Tiffany was born. This was truly God's blessing for us after all the dislocation and losses we experienced during this time period.
I started working on The BOSS™ as a concept in 1998 and in 2001 began putting my plan together. From January to March 2001 and August to October 2006 I had a paid for business talk radio show daily in Orlando called The BOSS™. From 2002-2004 I toyed with ideas about the method and platform I wanted to use to deliver The BOSS™. In 2005 I started developing this website which has taken over a year and a half and in 2006 wrote the business plan draft and am presently modifying it. In 2006 new developments called for a change in the original sites appearance and focus on the platforms for delivering The BOSS™ services.Click to see more of Lance's
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