In the early 90’s he was a highly recruited high school football player from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania then attend the University of Akron as a full scholarship athlete studying Political Science from 1992-1996 .
In late 1996 he moved to New York and attended The New York School of The Bible to study Theology. In 1998 after hearing reports of the lack of school supplies and poor learning conditions for some school districts he decided to run for his first political office as a District 10 School Board member. With a continuous desire to make a change in the overall community he ran for N.Y. State Senate in 2000, the President of the Bronx Borough in 2001, N.Y. State Assembly in 2004, served as Treasurer for New York State 16th Congressional District and served as an Alternate Delegate to the 2004 United States Presidential Republican National Convention. Even with unsuccessful victories against major political regimes his tireless efforts to make a difference and help people prepared him for his successful career in Corporate America and as an entrepreneur.
In 1996 he became a member consultant for the Municipal Credit Union. The Credit Union serves only members of the New York City municipal employees, fire, police, hospital workers, teachers and New York City elected officials. Its membership is over 300,000 and $1 Billion in assets. Aaron was responsible for client account services for nearly 500 clients. The Credit Union is a full services financial institution. His responsibilities included loan verification and processing, new account services and member relations.
In 1997 he began work for the NY State Family Health Plan. He was responsible for providing health care services for families throughout New York State and assisting them to restructure and budget their finances properly in order to afford quality health care.
In 1999 he became a Project Director for Xincon Technology, a Chinese owned and operated corporate training institution. He was responsible for the curriculum and training programs that enabled displaced corporate employees to re-enter the workforce with advanced technical training skills. He managed the training and placement of nearly 400 corporate employees.
In 2001 he began a career at Johnson Controls Inc. which is number 72 on the Fortune 500 list. Johnson Controls has over 250,000 employees, 500 locations worldwide and $36 Billion in annual revenue. He became the Business Development Director for the North East and was responsible for developing the Municipal target market that provides energy infrastructure improvements to major cities throughout the United States. His department enabled major cities to receive city-wide infrastructure improvements without raising tax dollars, through guaranteed energy performance contracts. His responsibilities included sales, contract preparations, managing project engineers and negotiating contracts with banks. The banking contracts were typically structured through Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, M & T Bank and Bank of America. In 2003 his department began to generate an average of $1 Billion annual revenue.
While in Corporate America he was privileged to travel throughout the United States and trained by some of the top national business experts who were responsible for training the top staff executives for G.E., Xerox, Microsoft, Pfizer, IBM, General Motors, Ford Motor, CISCO, Verizon, Wal-mart, PepsiCo , Verizon, AT&T, HP, United Technologies etc. The focus of his training was on solution based services. His belief is if you have a great relationship, a good product, and understand the customers goals then you’ll be able to design a solution that meets there expectations. With this approach he became one of the top sales producers in North America.
In late 2007 with a passion for finance and helping others he decided to take his corporate skills and branch out and start his own commercial broker business. In 2008 he started his business full-time.
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