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Highlights of Carter’s career:
• Produced the first Okinawa Grand Prix and Soapbox Derby.
• Established the EGLC Racing Team in Paris.
• Set up administration procedures and sales training programs for Investors Overseas Services that operated in 184 countries with annual sales in excess of $3 billion in its 12th year. Personally developed sales operations in Belfast, Cairo, Geneva, Hong Kong, Libya, London, Malta, Northern Ireland, Okinawa, and Scotland.
• Formed the International Life Insurance Company (Malta) Ltd.
• Established the International Life Insurance Company (UK) Ltd. In Northern Ireland.
• Earned a Private Pilot’s License.
• Created the Universal Life Insurance concept and set up 17 offices in the U.K. with 3600 employees, and recruited and trained 45,000 sales people who sold $25 million sums assured per month in the company’s 7th year.
• Established Brains Trust Management Company (U.K.) Ltd. in London.
• Established Home Shoppers Plan Ltd. in London.
• Created Discovery Bay Development Company (Turks and Caicos) Ltd. that acquired nearly one-half of the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands (an independent Crown colony in the Caribbean) for the development of a 285-room resort, and then sold the property to Club Med.
• Appointed International Sales Director for ITT’s Palm Coast, Florida properties.
• Director of Sales for Stewart Granger Properties in Spain.
• Developed the industry of individually-owned, capital-equipment leasing in Europe and the Middle East. In its 7th year, Carter Containers, SA, with offices in Amsterdam, Beirut, Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Paris, Rome, the United States, and Zurich, was the second largest shipping container sales and leasing company in the world. Carter gave the company to his employees (the story of which put Dr. Carter on the cover of Forbes magazine).
• Created The Point, usually ranked as No. 1 USA resort hotel, and in the top 35 of all resorts in the world. The Point was the fourth hotel property in the United States to become a member of Relais et Châteaux of which Mr. Carter was the first delegate for the United States, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Bermuda.
• Authored and published Letters from Abroad which was carried on all British Airways first class sections and lounges; authored British Airways First Class Hotel Selection; authored and published for four years Edward Carter’s Travels©, a subscription monthly, and created and managed The Inside Fax.
• Earned a Ph.D. (with honors) in Hospitality and Tourism Management.
• Advised British Airways on the redesign of all First Class facilities and services, and was a management consultant to U.K. country house hotel companies, advertising companies, and travel companies.
• Created the Interactive TravelVision Network on CD-ROM, the only single-author, interactive photographic database of more than 2000 hotels, inns, and resorts in 120 countries that could be searched by more than 90 personal criteria.
• Created TravelVision, the Internet’s only graphic database of more than 2000 hotels, inns, and resorts in 120 countries that could be searched by more than 90 personal criteria. TravelVision was named as the Number One Travel/Lodging Site on the Internet by Point Communications who gave it the "Best Site Award."
• Created and was editor-in-chief of bizTraveler—the largest e-zine on the Internet designed for frequent business travelers.
• Established The Edward Carter Gallery in Manhattan’s SoHo with one of the largest private collections of Ansel Adams photographs as its core.
• Elected to the Board of The Vanderbilt YMCA in New York City.
• Named Volunteer of the Year for Outstanding and Dedicated Service by the YMCA of Greater New York.
• Established Edward Carter Galleries LTD PTE. Corporately based in Singapore, the gallery curates exhibitions throughout the world.
• Appointed as visiting Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management, and International Etiquette at Bangkok University International College in Thailand.
To hear more of Carter in his own words, visit Forty years in Forty minutes
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