Jan, Richard

Penname Richard Jan: After a number of career choices which included teaching and several entrepreneurial adventures, some quite profitable and some complete disasters, I spent ten years in the colored gemstone business eventually becoming the COO of a publicly traded natural resource company. The product of this enterprise was the beautiful gemstone, sapphire. The stones were mined in the mountains of Montana, cut and polished in Sri Lanka and sold from the diamond district in New York City. This experience provided me with a rich background and a wealth of characters, enough to fill several