Friday, August 31, 2007

SAMPLE PROFESSIONAL BIO #1

The only real valuable thing is intuition. -Albert Einstein

If intuition is at all a valued source of information, Erika Worth is solid gold. Her investigation company, Collective Intelligence has risen from a one woman P.I. venture to a multimillion dollar enterprise in the short span of six years. Quite the dynamic business woman, Erika is known in the business as a razor sharp, consummate investigator and entrepreneur, with just the right balance of artistic eccentricity.

Worth began her career in the performing arts, where she learned to essentially step into the minds of different characters as a means to an artistic end. This enhanced human understanding became valuable in her later work, as intuition and the ability to conceptualize motivations sharpened her private investigator skills.

Seemingly equally right and left brained, Erika’s methodical approach of gathering and interpreting data according to the task at hand is a perfect match for her more ethereal strengths. From her early days on undercover security detail to her current roles as the C.E.O. of a rapidly expanding corporation, Worth has worn many hats besides the standard issue Private Eye Fedora.

As a teenager, Worth was known as a ‘girl genius’ type, sniffing out elusive targets and proving herself in what was very much a boy’s club, at the ripe old age of nineteen. Able to penetrate a fortress of secretaries and personal assistants, her maverick skills did not go unnoticed. Almost immediately after receiving her formal training at the West Coast Detective Academy, Erika was hired on as instructor, and soon after as lead investigator by Burns Security International.

Always eager for a challenge, Erika later enrolled in the L.A.P.D., where eight years of intense training, protocol and spontaneous problem solving prepared her for the ultimate war ground, the corporate battlefield. Armed with a decade’s worth of administrative savvy and field experience, Erika started her company, Collective Intelligence in 2001.

From Collective’s first year of business, which yielded XXX in revenue, to 2006, where numbers have soared to the sought after XXX multi-million dollar mark, Erika barely stops to notice the progress, only the potential. Collective Intelligence is now established as one of the leading national intelligence firms, carving a niche in the entertainment industry, with a heavy concentration in the security screening of reality television hopefuls.

With scores of applicants, reality television programs are a mainstay in the entertainment business, and Collective Intelligence endeavors to become the industry standard for all intelligence and background checks. This protection is relevant in several industries, and is valuable for any business where liability is a consideration.

The world was a very different place when Worth founded Collective Intelligence in the summer of 2001. Background checks in the name of business security were seen as a luxury reserved for Fortune 500 companies. Since the events of 9/11, safety in the workplace is a top priority for businesses of all types. Worth continues to broaden her expertise in understanding human nature: She is a sought-after expert in Kinesic interviewing and handwriting analysis, and keeps informed of the most reliable investigation and profiling techniques that work not only in the entertainment world, but fill the needs of the more rigid corporate entities, as well.

Worth manages a full office staff, hundreds of vendors, independent contractors, and surveillance operatives. Not content to simply mastermind a multimillion dollar business, Erika is also one of few female professionals that comprise the Entrepreneur’s Organization and California Association of Licensed Investigators (CALI). Worth’s not surprisingly fervent participation in these organizations ensures that she remains cutting edge in terms of her corporate management and intelligence skills; after all, as a Private Eye, keeping one step ahead of your target is the name of the game.

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