The Society's Founders
Tom Markel – Chairman
1979 – Forms OmniSkates a joint venture with Adidas Roller Skate
Company
1982 – Forms Sports Nutrition Company a joint venture with
Vita-Fresh Cos
1985 – Joins Lepercq deNeuflize an Investment banking firm in
New York
1990 – Forms Virtrue Companies a Business Asset Management firm
2004 - Forms iBank.com America’s largest online small business
network
Married - Four children
Eucharistic minister, Board Member of the Second Harvest Food
Bank, Chairman of Defense of the Faith for the Order of Malta,
Founding member Orange Coast Legatus, Finance Committee member
at Our Lady Queen of Angels
Joe Silvoso - Executive Director
1968 – B.S. in Accounting, University of Missouri-Columbia
1972 – Captain United States Marine Corps, Honorable Discharge
1975 - Juris Doctor Degree, Western State University College of
Law - Fullerton
1976 - Admitted to the California Bar
1980 - Certified Public Accountant
2004 - Retired Ernst & Young
International
Tax Partner
Mergers &
Acquistions
Tax Leader of
Engineering & Construction Industry
Married - Two children and two grandaughters
OLQA Eucharistic Minister, OLQA Altar Server, OLQA Stewardship Core
Team, OLQA
facilitator for Parish Small Faith Group, St Lorenzo Ruiz Parish past
president of
parish council, and St Lorenzo Ruiz past chair of Construction Committee
