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Wesley T. Wood is President of Marketing Capital Corporation, a marketing consulting and investment company providing specialized consulting services to the direct response and specialty retailing industry in eleven countries. MCC also provides funding for "micro-marketing" marketers by taking an equity position in a wide range of companies such as: The Lincoln Center Library of Classical Music, classical music club - USA; MBT Nursery Sales, Gardening and Horticultural Products (Compass Direct Marketing) - General Merchandise Marketing to Multinational English-Speaking Residents - UK; Crager Industries, Inc. High Performance Automotive Products - USA; Intervest Bank - Commercial Bank - Florida, USA.
Currently, Mr. Wood is a member of the Executive Committee to the Board of Advisors for the Center of Direct Marketing at New York University; Trustee for St. Dominick's R.C. Church; Board Member of Intervest Corporation (Real Estate), Intervest Bank (Florida Commercial Bank); and Member or the Trustees Advisory Committee at Fairfield University in Connecticut.
Mr. Wood has had widespread general marketing experience in the fields of packaged goods (Ballantine Beer, La Rosa Spaghetti, Visine Eye Drops), real estate, banking, insurance, and closed-circuit sport promotions including marketing of the Boston Celtics Basketball team. He has since concentrated on Direct Response Marketing. From 1972 to 1981, he was Co-Founder and President of Candelite Music, Inc. and Candelite Collectors Society. Candelite was the largest independently-owned direct marketer of records and tapes in the United States and Canada. He was also owner and publisher of Country Music Magazine.
From 1968 to 1972, Mr. Wood served as Executive Vice President, Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Downe Communications, Inc. Downe published Ladies' Home Journal, Family Weekly, Sports Magazine and various other publications. The company also owned and operated radio stations and many direct marketing companies. During this time, Mr. Wood co-founded The Hamilton Mint which became the second largest private mint in the United States during the early seventies.
Mr. Wood is a graduate (Bachelor of Science - 1965) of New York University, School of Commerce. He and his wife, Mary Catherine, reside in Laurel Hollow, Long Island, New York.
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