Larry Christy

Mr. Christy holds a degree in Political Science from Thiel College and was President of its Student Government and Alumni Association. He served as a Military Intelligence Officer in Viet Nam where he was awarded the Bronze Star for commanding a very successful espionage operation. In Europe he ran the Soviet Orientation Team training program for U. S. and allied forces. He left the service as a Captain to establish his first corporation for international trade in Switzerland.

Upon returning to the United States he formed another corporation to help entrepreneurs with business organization and financial planning. In addition to his private consulting work, he wrote a book on the Pennsylvania tax system. Since 1978 he has devoted his career to investment analysis and has advocated the use of stock hedge portfolios in published articles and investment seminars.

Having traveled in over thirty countries on five continents, Mr. Christy has met some of the world's most disadvantaged people. In 1989, he formed Thirders Foundation, Inc., a "no-load" public charity which uses 100% of all contributions to support its projects. Donations have provided plane fuel for medical safaris, hospital equipment and supplies, and nursing scholarships for the Kijabe Medical Center in Kenya East Africa as well as funding for DreamNet, a Pittsburgh support network for people with ideas for service to others.

Mr. Christy lives in Virginia Beach with his wife Lynn Sparrow, an internationally known writer, speaker, and hypnotherapist, and son Ryan Sparrow. His biography appears in Marquis Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America, the Dictionary of International Biography of Cambridge, England, and other reference works.