War Room

War Room
Originally uploaded by Tommy Perkins.

We had two double beds stacked with various resources and propoaganda from the countries we'd visited -- inches-thick volumes on country-specific tax codes, business law and a variety of marketing materials from various banks, law firms and government economic development agencies. We were in the process of reconciling that data with feedback we'd gathered from foreign companies we'd interviewed in those countries. To the left, teammate Rand Wrighton, our team's equivalent of the A-Team's Col. John "Hannibal" Smith and a presumptive hedge fund mogul, bangs out a financial model and regional risk profile, while Charlie, aka Capt. H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock, assembles the powerpoint.