William Benke retired following 40 years of management experience in strategic business planning, business analysis, and industrial engineering with the Boeing, Coca-Cola, Montgomery Ward, and Welch Grape Juice companies. His responsibilities included the financial analysis of new business opportunities and the direction of task force teams to develop business strategy and solutions to complex operating problems. He is a graduate of New York University with a degree in Administrative Engineering. His broad analytical skills extend to real estate investment analysis, the subject of this and two earlier books: Land Investor's Profit Guide and Negotiating Manual (Prentice Hall, 1973) and All About Land Investment (McGraw-Hill, 1976). He is also the author of Church Wake-up Call (Haworth Press, 2000). In addition to applying the analytical business techniques of the industrial world to real estate and other fields where it is often a missing discipline, he is active in civic/community volunteerism and has rendered organizational, analytical, and strategic planning assistance to such civic programs as the Seattle Opera, the Seattle Art Museum, the King Tutankhamun ("Tut") exhibit when it appeared in Seattle, Childhaven (rehabilitates abused and neglected children), and the Salvation Army. Joseph M. Fowler passed away on May 24, 2001.
He was an accomplished financial analysis professional. He retired from Boeing as Director of Financial Analysis, Asia Pacific area. After retirement, he provided management consulting services to international airlines in financial planning and equipment forecasting. He held both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Perdue University and an MBA from Seattle University.
His financial analysis expertise has been applied in the development of the unique profitability analysis charts and tables included in this book. His other accomplishments in the business and technical fields include several engineering papers and special proprietary documents prepared for airlines, which provided extensive economic analyses and forecasts regarding equipment options and were important in multimillion-dollar aircraft purchase decisions. Mr. Fowler maintained an active interest in real estate investment and applied his extensive financial analysis skills to this area of investment, as well.