American Financial Employee Directory

Howard's career encompasses both the arts and business. At the age of sixteen he wrote the stage play, Lovely Afternoon. Published the following year by Samuel French, Lovely Afternoon has been performed on professional and amateur stages throughout the United States and Canada. He is a graduate of the UCLA Film School and winner of the prestigious... Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for screenplay. He acquired an office on the lot of Paramount Studios in Hollywood where he produced and wrote screenplays, including the original screenplay for the film, The Seventh Coin, starring Peter O'Toole, which won both the Houston and Philadelphia Film Festivals. Howard's career encompasses both the arts and business. At the age of sixteen he wrote the stage play, Lovely Afternoon. Published the following year by Samuel French, Lovely Afternoon has been performed on professional and amateur stages throughout the United States and Canada. He is a graduate of the UCLA Film School and winner of the prestigious Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for screenplay. He acquired an office on the lot of Paramount Studios in Hollywood where he produced and wrote screenplays, including the original screenplay for the film, The Seventh Coin, starring Peter O'Toole, which won both the Houston and Philadelphia Film Festivals. Concurrent with his work in entertainment, Howard cultivated a career in the areas of motion picture, real estate, and venture capital financing. He created the Money Group, which specialized in financing privately held mortgages and trust deeds. A founding Principal of American Financial, he spearheaded the company's entry into motion picture and technology financing. In the technology sector he was the prime architect in structuring, creating, and leveraging several million dollars of seed and start-up capital for early VoIP companies whose technology was essential for Vonage and other Internet-based telephone companies, and is still in active use today. He has been inducted into The Million Dollar Club by The American Cash ...Read More