Began career with Merrill Lynch in NYC in 1965 and spent the next seventeen years in various aspects of the securities brokerage business. Managed individual accounts before moving on to the institutional side of the business. Moved into management and was a Vice President and Senior account executive prior to founding a brokerage and securities advisory business in 1982, MacKenzie Capital Management LP, including a real estate brokerage and investment holding company, Patterson Real Estate Services LP