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Don Caldera is
a career manager and entrepreneur with 40 years of
corporate experience in acquisitions, development,
and senior operating posts.
Don purchased
Country Business Services from Ed Brandt, who
founded the office and was a founder of CBI, in
early 1999, and has activly managed the operation
since then. Prior to that, Don was principal in a
Palm Beach merchant bank, with particular focus on
expansion and roll-up transactions in healthcare,
leisure, maritime and aerospace firms. He was EVP
Development of a maritime energy services company,
which he helped to grow through acquisitions from
$30 million to $180 million, via an initial public
offering and over $300 million in follow-on
financing. Prior thereto, Don was CEO of a Geneva
Switzerland based joint venture for cruising, hotels
and tourism in the Soviet Union, an assignment which
followed his successful turnaround, as Chairman/CEO,
of a cruise line that he expanded, publicly financed
and subsequently sold. Pre-1985, Don was SR VP
Sales of US's largest inland waterways conglomerate,
served as EVP-Chief Operating Officer of a 21 ship
joint venture between a major oil company and
private investors, and was co-founder in a LBO of a
motor carrier group with over 2000 units and 50
terminals. His initial business experience was at
an international shipping firm, where he was active
in intermodal expansion through acquisitions and
held a variety of operating and corporate roles.
A native of New
York‘s Hudson Valley and a Lake Placid homeowner
since 1974, Don received a BS in engineering from
the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture and a JD
from Yale Law School in 1960. He is a member of the
New York Bar, the American Arbitration Association,
the International Business Broker Association, the
New York Association of Business Brokers and the New
York State Association of Realtors. Active in
community affairs, Don is a director and Secretary
of Adirondack North Country Association ("ANCA").a
development focused organization for the fourteen
upstate New York Counties, and has served the Mercy
Uihlein Healthcare Corp. and the Lake Placid
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