Tom Meinecke, a fifth generation Texan, graduated from high school and junior college in San Antonio and received his BBA degree from The University of Texas in Austin with top hon...показать большеTom Meinecke, a fifth generation Texan, graduated from high school and junior college in San Antonio and received his BBA degree from The University of Texas in Austin with top honors while working his way through college. He lettered in track in both high school and junior college. He later received a graduate degree in banking from The Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at SMU in Dallas.
His work career included being the manager of a telephone company at age twenty-three, then Personnel Director of an oil company. He then worked in the banking industry for the next twenty years where he started as an Assistant Vice President and Human Resources Director at the fifth largest bank in Houston and rose to Senior Vice President over Administration in six years with this one billion dollar bank.
He was recruited to become President and CEO of a holding company bank and then President and CEO of an independent bank. He also served as President of Retail Lending for Texas for a Savings and Loan and a Manager for the Resolution Trust Corporation. He left banking to become a Financial Advisor for the past seventeen years.
Tom began his writing career by having his first book, The Last 880-Yard Runner, a memoir, published in 2007. He has traveled to where his ancestors lived in Prussia/Germany back to 1530 A.D. and has spent two years of research for this book, Arms of God – From Prussia to Texas to Death in the Brazos River.
He and his wife, Sandy, live in Sugar Land, Texas. They have a son, two daughters and one grandson.показать меньше