Originally from Connecticut, Joe is a 1964 graduate of The University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English Literature. He spent the first ten years of my career in both corporations and the advertising agency business in New York City before moving to Arizona in 1971 where he worked in the advertising and the hotel businesses. After serving as Doubletree Hotels corporate Director of Marketing Joe started his own advertising firm in 1991; then retired 18 years later. His interests include traveling, photography, writing and recording spoken-word poems. He was an alpine mountaineer for 15 years and summited Mt. McKinley (Denali). Joe has three kids, 9 grandchildren and 1 great.