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Joseph Blount ’74
Joe, southern born and raised, is a native
of Montgomery, AL. He attended several
schools before he landed and “finally
found my home at The Storm King
School” in 1971. Joe is still in close con-
tact with Frank and Maia Brogan, SKS
Trustees Emeriti.
Upon graduating in 1974, Joe
attended Prescott College in Arizona. He
moved to Rhodes College in Memphis
where he graduated in 1979 with a degree
in history.
Joe settled in Atlanta where he worked
in the interior furnishings industry and
renovated houses from 1979 to 1985.
Filled with an entrepreneurial spirit, Joe
opened Wynfield House, Ltd., specializ-
ing in Biedermeier antiques. From there,
he opened and operated Pierce Martin,
a high-end manufacturer and importer
of rattan, wicker and iron furniture,
antiques and accessories based in Atlanta
with showrooms in all the major markets
in the USA.
In 2010 Joe “retired” to his current
home in Miami Beach after successfully
selling Pierce Martin. Never one to sit
back on his laurels, Joe “quickly grew rest-
less.” He recently opened Chalk, a high
end table tennis and billiards lounge/
nightclub in South Beach.
Joe said he is working harder than ever
and “having a ball!”
In his role as an SKS trustee, Joe sits
on the Development and Capital Cam-
paign Committees.
Jack D’Angelo
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York,
Jack attended Pace College, in Manhat-
tan, receiving his BBA in Accounting and
Business Administration. After gradua-
tion, he went to work for IBM but was
soon called to serve in the U.S. Army.
After a two year military leave of absence,
he returned from Vietnam to resume his
financial career with IBM.
Jack went on to obtain his MBA in
Professional Management. His assign-
ments at IBM included both domestic
and international stints in accounting,
planning and pricing; working at both
staff and managerial levels for various
division HQ, plant and lab locations.
Jack retired from IBM with thirty years of
service to his credit.
Jack and his wife, Marie Elena, a
teacher for over thirty years, have been
married for forty-three years and raised
two daughters in New Windsor, NY after
relocating from Brooklyn. They are now
the proud grandparents of four girls.
In May 1995, Jack joined the staff of
The Storm King School as its CFO/HR
Director and the overseer for Mainte-
nance and the School’s food services
Storm King School Introduces Three New Trustees
department. He continued in that posi-
tion, serving three different Heads of
School, until his retirement in December
2008. He returned in March 2011 as a
consultant when he again ran the Busi-
ness Office on an interim basis while the
school searched for a permanent CFO.
By September 2011, Jack once again
returned to the ranks of the retired
intending to continue his hobby of
writing novels. In October 2011,
however, SKS solicited Jack for his help
in another capacity. He was elected to the
Storm King Board of Trustees as its new
Treasurer and Finance Chair.
Michael Spano ’74
Michael Spano graduated in 1974 from
The Storm King School where he met
and bonded with many of his lifelong
friends. He then attended and graduated
from Hofstra University with a degree in
Marketing.
Following a stint in the maelstrom of
the New York financial world, Michael
moved to Minnesota and founded Tribeca
Ltd. an Executive Search and Consulting
company focused on Information Tech-
nology, Engineering and Sales.
During the past 23 years, Tribeca Ltd.
has consulted on projects for more than
300 Fortune 1000 companies through-
out the US and Canada. In the Execu-
tive Search practice Tribeca Ltd. places
C-level, Director level, and Management
level executives.
Among his activities and accomplish-
ments:
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Michael served as Vice Chairman of
the Minnesota IT Workforce Collabora-
tive which works to facilitate communica-
tion between corporations and Colleges,
Universities and technical schools. They
also advise schools on the technologies
Jack D’Angelo
Michael Spano and Jack
Joseph Blount