Officers

Pete Welles, Joe Howley and Executive Director Laura Mason

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Pete Welles

President

Entered the investment profession in 1969 and worked for thirteen years with three mutual fund companies (Fidelity, Alliance Capital and T. Rowe Price) primarily as a technology analyst before starting a ten-year partnership investing in small private and public growth companies. In 1992 started an investment advisory company with my wife, Sondra, investing in small public growth companies primarily in the health care and electronics industries focusing on a successful cash flow anlaysis technique. Been a board member of the National Aquarium in Baltimore for ten years and Chairman of the National Aquarium in DC for the past four years.
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Joe Howley

Vice President

I began flying in 1995 in a 172, and worked my way up the Cessna line (182, 210, 208) until purchasing S/N #755 in 2006. Along with my wife of 23 years, Christine and our 3 teenage children, we are in the process of flying all over the continent in search of a perfect landing. A Commodities Trader by profession since graduating from The Wharton School in 1981 and an avid pilot for PALS (Patient Airlift Services). I now live in Connecticut after 45 years in the great state of New Jersey.
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Laura Mason

Executive Director

I grew up in Nebraska in a little town of 300 people. Yes! I had to get out! I moved to California when I was 13. Married my husband Joe in 1981, and then headed to Arizona in 1989 after the birth of my son. We bought land and built a home in the foothills of Tucson.
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