BILL GLASSMAN—BIO
Sandy and I moved to Frenchman ’ s Creek in 2018 and sold our house in St. Louis in 2020 to make Frenchman ’ s our exclusive home. I am running for the board because I want to make Frenchman ’ s the very best it can be. My educational background is a BA from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
My first business was a family business started by my grandfather. It was
a chain of gasoline stations that spanned from PA to CO. It was sold to a competitor.
The second business was a chain of radio stations including one that served Broward and Palm Beach County.
The third business was an airport service business. We provided skycaps and security screeners in air- ports from Anchorage to West Palm Beach. This company was sold to a public company from Israel. The company was sold before 9-11 and the TSA taking over airport screening. The fourth and fifth businesses were connected. The fourth company indexed medical records for large insurance companies like Hartford and USAA. It was sold to a private equity firm. The last company in- dexed medical records for large medical systems like Harvard, Yale, Mayo, United Health Care and Cleve- land Clinic. This was the most successful of the five companies. It was also sold to a private equity firm. The last two companies had independent board of directors, with whom I worked closely. This will be beneficial with the job of being on the Frenchman ’ s board.
My experiences at Frenchman ’ s Creek are: •
Finance Committee member and Vice-Chair Audit Committee member and Vice-Chair
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Security Committee
Golf Committee
Racquet Sports Committee
We are in the happiness business. We want to make people happy by saying yes … yes to top-notch food, yes to top-notch service and yes to top-notch facilities. The key to this happening is for the Board of Governors to give very clear instructions to the general manager and then judge the general manager based on his or her following the instructions from the Board of Governors. The Board of Governors is like the Board of Directors of a company. The general manager is the CEO, and we ’ re all shareholders invested in this company called Frenchman ’ s Creek. In my business career, the last two businesses had outside Board of Directors, They were also shareholders, so I know very well how boards work and how helpful an effective board can be to the CEO.
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