Career Paul Zane Pilzer

1 career

1.1 academics
1.2 banking industry
1.3 real estate industry
1.4 education industry
1.5 health benefits industry
1.6 fitness industry
1.7 government service

career
academics

pilzer earned ba in journalism lehigh university in 1974 @ age 20 , mba wharton school of university of pennsylvania in 1976. adjunct professor @ new york university (1979-2000) served chairman of department of real estate finance. received honorary doctorate in public service parker college (now parker university) in 2004.

pilzer served contributing editor 1979-1995 of real estate review published new york university , real estate finance journal published wharton business school. author of 16 academic articles. has served lecturer @ moscow state university in russia (1985-1991), peking university (2009), , university of hong kong (2013).

banking industry

pilzer employed citibank (1976-1981) worked in eft payment technology, government affairs , equity real estate investments. @ citibank became officer in 1976 , vice president in 1980.

real estate industry

in 1981, pilzer co-founded zane may interests in dallas, texas. developed 66 projects in u.s. , former ussr through 1989. ge capital featured company in 1989 in monthly magazine, financial enterprise—the magazine of ge capital.

education industry

pilzer student-teacher in computer science 1975-1976 @ university of pennsylvania. graduate thesis construction of interactive teaching machine on mainframe computer. wrote on cover of thesis: 1 day technology used affordably bring best teacher of every subject every student.

in 1989, pilzer founded educational cd-rom publisher zane publishing , served ceo , publisher until company became publicly listed in 1995 (nasd:zane).

in 2005, pilzer co-founded american academy, online high school serving high school dropouts in partnership local public high school. pilzer served president of american academy 2005–2008.

in 2010, pilzer founded zane prep, inc. distributes zane math , other stem (science, technology, engineering , math) programs through zaniac after-school learning centers. 2016 zane prep had opened ten zaniac learning center locations , pilzer , company featured in national publications ranging boston globe cnbc u.s. news , world report. franchise times magazine compared pilzer elon musk, , quoted pilzer saying zaniac instructors: “we don’t hire $40 hour instructors , mark them $80,” said, flatly. “we hire ivy league-bound future nobel prize winners.”

in 2016, pilzer s lifetime commitment improving education honored university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. on may 11, 2016 pilzer gave keynote address @ university of pennsylvania entitled s uber of education technology?

health benefits industry

in 1999, pilzer founded extend health distribute defined contribution portable individual health insurance policies through employers. on january 6, 2012, extend health filed ipo acquired towers watson $435 million on may 29, 2012.

in 2006, pilzer founded zane benefits, inc. offer defined contribution employer health benefits u.s. employers through software-as-a-service product called zanehealth. zanehealth allows small employers, brokers, , payroll suppliers offer employees defined contribution health benefits through own private health insurance exchanges. zanehealth helps employers transfer health insurance risks of employees federal government , has been subject of front page articles in wall street journal usa today, , new york times.

fitness industry

as reported in club business international magazine in 2008, pilzer has criticized fitness industry catering fit individuals , missing opportunity serve growing international obese population.

in 2008, pilzer keynote speaker planet fitness , in 2010, pilzer s wife, lisa dang pilzer, became area developer franchisee planet fitness in salt lake city, utah.

government service

in 1985, pilzer testified before u.s. congress on then-developing savings loan crisis.

pilzer visited former soviet union in 1969 high school chess player , lectured on economic issues @ moscow state university 1983-1989. attended moscow summit (1988) between president reagan , premier mikhail gorbachev in 1988.

in 1989, pilzer wrote other people’s money — inside story of s&l mess (simon , schuster, 1989) reviewed in new york review of books economist john kenneth galbraith , in new york times book review tony solomon, former president of federal reserve bank of new york.

in 1991, pilzer candidate u.s. congress in texas 3rd congressional district.

on august 24, 2008, pilzer spoke in jakarta, indonesia @ gelora bung karno stadium introduced indonesian president susilo bambang yudhoyono

in 2009, pilzer’s book wellness revolution published in china fifth wave. pilzer addressed chinese nation on december 7, 2009 center podium in main auditorium of great hall of people in beijing, , on december 10, 2009 pilzer spoke @ peking university.

in 2013, pilzer lecturer @ university of hong kong on social entrepreneurship.

in 2014, pilzer lecturer @ nanjing university , gave lecture on future of chinese economy more 10,000 chinese business professionals in nanjing, china.