Larry L. Bortles

Henderson, NV 89074

Undergrad college/major: Arts and Sciences/Economics.

Affiliations at Cornell: Crew, Red Key, Chi Psi.

Advanced degrees: Harvard MBA.

Career/occupation: President, Managing Director and General Partner of a multitude of companies and syndications for real estate investment, development and management in Hawaii, US Mainland and Fiji (1963-current); President and Chairman of Philippine-based Amphil Tech, Inc., an hi-tech database & web development company (1999-current); Chairman of a Shanghai, China-based clean energy development company, Sustainable Energy Asia (2008-current).

Important affiliations: Chairman, Sustainable Energy Asia, Shanghai, China; Chairman, Fiji National Task Force on Law and Order; Chairman, Fiji Employers Federation, Crime Subcommittee; President, Colorado Harvard Business School Club; President, The Genesee Foundation, Golden, CO; President, Harvard Business School Club of Hawaii;
President, Waialae Iki Community Association, Honolulu, Hawaii; President, Mullen Soccer Club, Denver, CO; Treasurer, Pacific Theological College, Fiji; Treasurer, Suva, Fiji YMCA; Treasurer, Anglican Diocese of Polynesia; Director, Makati North Rotary Club, Makati, Philippines; Director, Suva Rotary Club, Fiji; Director, Honolulu Board of Realtors; Director, Multi-Family Housing Counsel; VP & Director, Real Estate Securities and Syndication Institute; Founder & Director, Hawaii Economic Development Corp;
Director, Hawaii Home Builder’s Association; Director, Hawaii Youth Soccer Assn.; Las Vegas Rotary Club; Honolulu Rotary Club; AmCham Publications & Telecom/IT Committees, Philippines; Young Presidents Organization; Aloha United Way, Honolulu, Hawaii; Seattle SeaHammers Underwater Hockey Club; Philippine Underwater Hockey Club.
Published work: Books: Fine Artists of the Philippines; Philippine Coral Reefs, In Watercolor by Cusi.

Marital status: Married.

Spouse: Rose.

Children: All in their 40’s – Erin, Kristin, Gavin and Eden.

Grandchildren: Five.

Outstanding Cornell memory: Our Cornell Crew – Varsity, JV and Frosh Heavyweights - sweeping the IRA Regatta on Lake Onondaga in June 1958.

How has your life differed from what you expected? I expected adventure and an interesting life full of significant accomplishments, which I’ve certainly realized. However, nothing prepared me for the moral and ethical decay, the corruption and depravity of the US economic and political leadership that has so adversely impacted our nation, and limited our collective creative potential, since 1961.

Cornell activities post-grad: Cornell Secondary Schools Committee; Cornell Real Estate Council. Life activities: I set out upon an 18-month 23-country solo backpack world tour starting Oct ’61 in Japan, carrying an Olivetti portable typewriter and two Nikon Fs purchased from the factory when the exchange rate was ¥360:$1. Great experience and perspectives that shaped much of my future; A late 1963 marriage and relocation to Honolulu, commencing then my real estate development career, with eventually 23 subdivisions under my control; 1966 admitted to Harvard’s MBA program, during which I created what became recognized as the world’s first computer-based real estate investment software; 1968 creation of KPMG’s first computer-aided real estate consulting division; 1970-73 launched the startup of what became Hawaii’s largest real estate brokerage and property management company, with 130 sales agents and over 4,000 condos under management; 1973-1985 the creation of twenty private placement syndications for investment and development ventures in Hawaii, Colorado, Wyoming and Fiji; 1981 move to Colorado and eventually losing my ass – financially all of it - in Colorado’s late-80’s economic meltdown/Savings & Loan crisis that put all of us developers into the rapacious gun sites of the RTC trial attorneys that the government tapped to take over the failed S&Ls which held my properties’ mortgages; 1989 - restarting my economic and professional life afresh in the windowless back room of my Fiji architect’s home, commencing the sale of partnership properties and establishing a boat building factory with an international clientele; 1997 departing Fiji to the Philippines to fulfill a dream of establishing an Asian-based operation, the founding of web-tech firm Amphil Tech in 1999 and securing the love of the lady – Rose - who would become my second wife; 2005 thru 2008 – returning to the States and shifting my priorities to respond to the critical end-of-life needs of my parents, to be with them most of this period in Seattle; 2008 – making a move to Las Vegas, the place most ravaged by what I term “Phase 2 of the USA banking crisis”, Phase 1 of which devastated me in Colorado two decades prior. Las Vegas, with a core citizenry of surprising integrity, great resourcefulness and resilience, now offers me both an opportunity and a test of my near half-century of real estate creativity. A unique asset I bring to this is my own disaster-induced awareness of the diffidence at the top of our economic/political food chain towards “Main Street” concerns; All the while, our tech company and lovely home in the Philippines beckons…

Personal reflections: Rose and I really enjoyed all the great fellowship and activities at our 45^th Reunion in 2006 and look forward to next year! Am looking forward especially to another reunion row on the Inlet out to some of the Cayuga’s blue waters.