Doug Poretz is a serial entrepreneur, whose career has been primarily in the area of communications (public and investor relations primarily but hardly exclusively). He is in the process of creating a new business to discover appropriate new business models and opportunities arising from the current global situation, which he considers to be the greatest period of creative destruction in modern history. In 2000, he co-founded Washington, DC-based Qorvis Communications (http://qorvis.com/), which established an entirely new model of operating a communications firm, which model was validated as the firm became one of the nation's largest and fastest growing independently owned communications firms. For half of his forty-year career in communications, he focused on investor relations and corporate communications, in-house as part of senior management for three public companies (two NYSE, one AMEX), and for scores more companies on a retained basis. He has been involved in amicable and hostile acquisitions, initial and follow-on equity and debt offerings, Chapter 11 filings, and virtually all other corporate events. His overall communications experience is very broad, and includes well-known and highly regarded public relations, advertising and interactive/digital campaigns. Ever since his first job in his young twenties to create and coordinate the public information campaign for the integration of the Alexandria (VA) Public Schools (memorialized in the movie “Remember the Titans”), he has worked with the leadership teams of organizations ranging in size from venture-backed start-ups to multinational conglomerates. He is a frequent speaker to business and academic groups and quoted in the news media often. He received his BA in philosophy from The George Washington University in 1967. He and his wife live in suburban Washington, D.C. and South Florida .