Coast Guard Academy Graduate and Falmouth, Massachusetts Native Named Director of Operations of Service Academy Political Action Committee

Cale M. Smith has been named Director of Operations of GradPAC, a national non-partisan political action committee based in Washington, DC and comprised of graduates of West Point, Annapolis, the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Coast Guard Academy and U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

Washington, DC (PRWEB) January 29, 2004 ----GradPAC Chairman Shawn N. Olds announced the appointment of Cale M. Smith as Director of Operations of the organization today.

Smith graduated with honors from the United States Coast Guard in 1994. He is currently an Equity Analyst at a hedge fund based in Rockville, Maryland.

"With Cales addition to our staff, we round out an already diverse organization of service academy graduates with a distinguished Coast Guard Academy alumnus," said Chairman Olds. GradPAC has experienced tremendous growth and exposure across the nation over the last year. With events in 11 major cities among other noteworthy undertakings planned in 2004, Cales leadership and management skills will prove invaluable to GradPAC."

While on active duty in the U.S. Coast Guard, Smith served as a Navigator and Deck Watch Officer on a buoytender, a 180-foot Coast Guard Cutter, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He also served as lead instructor at the National Aids to Navigation School in southeast Virginia.

Since leaving the Coast Guard in 1999, Smith has held numerous management positions in various technology companies. He also competed in the 2000 Olympic rowing trials as a single sculler.

In 2001, Smith led a nationwide build-out of a high-speed wireless internet network while working at the worlds first commercial Internet Service Provider. Subsequently, he traveled the world as the Director of Business Development at an international wireless consulting firm with operations in the Caribbean, Central Asia and the Middle East.

Smith obtained an MBA from the College of William & Mary in 1998, an executive certificate in financial planning from Georgetown University in 2003 and is currently a Chartered Financial Analyst candidate.

Originally from Falmouth, Massachusetts, Smith and his wife, Margie, currently reside in Arlington, Virginia.

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GradPAC is a national non-partisan political action committee comprised of graduates of West Point, Annapolis, the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. GradPAC holds as its mission the support of fellow service academy graduates who have served their nation with distinction and valor in uniform and now seek election to the U.S. House, U.S. Senate or the Presidency of the United States. For more information, log onto www.GradPAC.org or contact Thomas J. Ratcliff, GradPAC Press Secretary at (866) GRADPAC.