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Bio & Credentials

Business Experience:

Owner, Goddard Company, Fort Collins, CO -Registered Investment Advisor since 1995.Financial Planner/Registered Representative, Waddell & Reed Financial Services, Fort Collins, CO - 1991-1995.

Previous Experience:
Special Agent, Prudential Insurance, Boulder, CO. 5 years.
President, GBD&O Advertising, Austin, TX. 5 years.
Real estate sales agent 5 years, Fort Collins, CO and Angel Fire, NM.

Personal Data:

Age 52, married to DJ (from Del Rio, TX) for 19 years. Father of two girls, Laurel 16, Brooke 15, who attend public schools in Fort Collins.

Moved to Ft. Collins, CO from Pierre, S.D. as a child in 1958, son of an independent businessman, graduate of Fort Collins High and Colorado State University. After college, Mark lived in Boulder, CO, Austin, TX and Angel Fire, N.M. before returning to Fort Collins in 1989.

Fiercely independent, Mark has been self-employed all his life, beginning as a paperboy at the age of seven. He is an avid golfer, outdoorsman, motorcyclist and born-again Christian.
Credentials:

Credentials

CFP Professional Education Program Certificate, College for Financial Planning, Denver, CO.

Certified Financial Planner, CFP Licensee, Board of Standards, The Institute of Certified Financial Planners.

Tax Preparation Certificate, College For Financial Planning, Denver, CO.

Registered Investment Adviser, Colorado Securities Division, Securities and Exchange Commission.

Bachelor of Science, Business/Marketing, Colorado State University.

Member of the Financial Planning Association of America.

Member of the Society of Asset Allocators and Fund Timers.