Daniel S. Peña, Sr.

Daniel S. Peña Sr.
Born	August 10, 1945 (1945-08-10) (age 66) Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Occupation	Founder and Chairman of The Guthrie Group Founder, CEO, Chairman of the Board of Great Western Resources Inc. Co-Founder, CEO, Chairman of the Board of J.P.K. Industries, Bear Stearns & Co.
Website
Danpena.com The Guthrie Group

Daniel S. Peña Sr. (born on August 10, 1945) is a Hispanic-American businessman, originally from Jacksonville, Florida. Today, he resides in Asia, but, for many years, he lived on the historic Guthrie Castle estate in Scotland.^[1]

Biography

After service in the US Army, he received a BS in Business Administration from California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in 1971.

Upon leaving college, he worked in real estate, and then joined Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis and subsequently Bear Stearns. After that, he was President and CEO of Kennedy Industries Inc. and then Chairman of JPK Industries, Inc.

In 1982, he founded Great Western Resources Inc., (GWRI), a Houston-based natural resource company. When he left the company in 1991, the company reportedly had a public market capitalization of over £300 million. Peña owned around 10 percent shares of GWRI when he left in 1992. He was ousted by the company's board of directors, which he later sued and won $4.3 million in actual damages for refusing to pay his contract.^[2]

In 1997, Great Western Resources Inc. was purchased by Forcenergy, for $48.3 million,^[3] which itself was bought in 2000, by Forest Oil Corporation, for about $615 million in stock^[4] Harmac acquired Great Western Resources from Forest Oil, in July 2005.^[5]

In 2003, after living there for twenty years, he opened Guthrie Castle to the public, which was made available for wedding parties, corporate functions, group bookings, or golf.^[6] The historic keep had remained in the Guthrie family until 1983, with the death of Colonel Ivan Guthrie.^[7]

Peña is founder and Chairman of The Guthrie Group,^[8] an investment consortium, incorporated on the Channel Islands in 2002 and named after Guthrie Castle in Scotland.

Peña also has business interests in the Philippines, where he is mentioned as the Chairman of iZone Technologies.^[9]

In 2009, former business partner Srinivas Mahesh filed a complaint in India with cyber crime police about an alleged fraud involving porn and mp3 websites as well as creditcard misuse, which after a police investigation was stopped. The cyber crime police also filed a report clearing Pena from all charges.^[10]

Recognition

Awards

He claims to have been the recipient of many awards including the 1981 Latin Business Association Outstanding Business Owner Award;^[11] Finalist for the 1997 Telly Awards for his talk called "Quantum Leap Advantage";^[12] the 1994 John Regan Award for Excellence by the Center of Entrepreneurial Management; the American International Real Estate Expo and Conference AIREEC 2008,“Man of the Year Award” and the 2008 AIREEC “Inspirational Leadership Award”.^[13]

Media

In 1983, Pulitzer prize winning journalist Al Martinez^[14] portrayed Dan Pena in the Los Angeles Times.^[15] In said article, Al Martinez describes Peña as "already a wealthy oil broker" with over $50 million dollars revenues in just one year, attempting to buy his own oil refinery.^[16] He has also been written about in Investor's Business Daily,^[17] Financial Times,^[18] The Sunday Telegraph,^[19] The National Law Journal,^[20] Houston Chronicle,^[21] Houston Business Journal, Texas Lawyer,^[22] Success Now Magazine,^[23] and Hispanic Business Magazine.^[24]

Works

• Daniel S. Peña, Sr (2004). "Why Litigation Is Nothing More Than A Business Tool - 26 Unbreakable Rules of Litigation!". MediaDefamation.org. http://www.mediadefamation.org/litigation.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-15. 

In 1997, he self-published the autobiographical book Build Your Own Guthrie through a company controlled by him, Great Wisdom Publishing, which had been a subsidiary of International Media Holdings, Inc. (IMH, formerly Success Development International, SDI), where he was a majority shareholder.^[25]

In 1999, the British mail-order entrepreneur Stuart Goldsmith, through his company Medina Ltd, published a revised edition of that book under the title Your First 100 Million, which they offered for £277.^[26] The Second Edition of Your First Hundred Million has been released in July 2009 selling at $197.00 USD.^[27]

References

1. ^ FRANK URQUHART (4 August 2003). "Rescued castle to open its doors". The Scotsman. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Rescued-castle-to-open-its.2449274.jp. 
2. ^ "Great Western Union Founder wins $4.3 million from company". Houston Journal. October 4, 1993. http://www.scribd.com/doc/22737891/Houston-Business-Journal. 
3. ^ "Forcenergy announces closing of acquisition of Great Western Resources Inc". Business Wire. January 22, 1997. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_Jan_22/ai_19046112/. 
4. ^ "COMPANY NEWS; FOREST OIL AGREES TO BUY FORCENERGY, A RIVAL". The New York Times. July 11, 2000. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/11/business/company-news-forest-oil-agrees-to-buy-forcenergy-a-rival.html. 
5. ^ "Great Western Resources". August 2005. http://www.harmactransport.com/index.php?page=98&sub1=99&sub2=133. 
6. ^ Martin Vousden (25 - SEPTEMBER 2003). "Is your game ready for Scotland's ultimate test?". Scottish Golf. http://www.scottishgolf.com/features/feature_display1a48.html. 
7. ^ FRANK URQUHART (4 August 2003). "Rescued castle to open its doors". The Scotsman. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Rescued-castle-to-open-its.2449274.jp. 
8. ^ "JFSC Companies Registry". https://www.jerseyfsc.org/registry/documentsearch/NameDetail.aspx?id=45270. 
9. ^ "iZone Technologies Website". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20080517011510/http://www.izonetech-ph.com/management.htm. 
10. ^ "Cleared of charges". The Times Of India. August 9, 2009. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/bangalore/Firm-chairman-director-cleared-of-charges/articleshow/4872276.cms. 
11. ^ "Dan Pena Latin Business Association Outstanding Business Owner Award 1981".". http://www.scribd.com/doc/21736798/Dan-Pena-Latin-Business-Association-Award-1981. 
12. ^ "Dan Pena Finalist Telly Awards 1997".". http://www.scribd.com/doc/22157312/Dan-Pena-Finalist-Telly-Awards-1997. 
13. ^ "Dan Pena Sr. Wins Multiple AIREEC Awards".". http://www.pressrelease365.com/pr/business/dan-pena-sr-awards-2816.htm. 
14. ^ "Al Martinez LA Times".". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-columnist-amartinez,0,184482.columnist. 
15. ^ Al Martinez (August 9, 1983). "The Latino Wealthy - a new breed". Los Angeles Times. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/668567132.html?dids=668567132:668567132&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+3,+1983&author=AL+MARTINEZ&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(1886-Current+File)&edition=&startpage=OC1&desc=The+Latino+Wealthy--a+New+Breed. 
16. ^ Al Martinez (August 9, 1983). "original article LA Times - a new breed". Los Angeles Times. http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=l415nj675xc. 
17. ^ "Learning in War to Tap Strength and Never Give UP". Investor's Business Daily. Tuesday October 17, 1997. http://www.scribd.com/doc/22795316/Investors-Business-Daily-Entrepreneur-Daniel-s-Pena. 
18. ^ "Ex GWR Chief Plans Comeback". Financial Times. September 29, 1993. http://www.scribd.com/doc/22794986/Financial-Times-Ex-GWR-Chief-Plans-Comeback. 
19. ^ "Digging up Profits a Mile Under Kentucky". The Sunday Telegraph. May 22, 1988. http://www.scribd.com/doc/22795526/The-Sunday-Telegraph-Digging-Up-Profits-a-Mile-Under-Kentucky. 
20. ^ The National Law Journal. October 11, 1993. http://www.scribd.com/doc/23046840/The-National-Law-Journal-Dan-Pena. 
21. ^ "Businessman offers tips to graduating students". Houston Chronicle. July 17, 1991. http://www.scribd.com/doc/23048214/Dan-Pena-Houston-Chronicle-1991. 
22. ^ Texas Lawyer. October 11, 1993. http://www.scribd.com/doc/23047024/Texas-Lawyer-Big-Deals-Big-Suits. 
23. ^ "Dan Pena Entrepreneur Extraordinaire". Success Now Magazine. Issue 3. http://www.scribd.com/doc/23045956/Success-Now-Dan-Pena. 
24. ^ "JPK's Dan Pena". Hispanic Business Magazine. January–February 1981. http://www.scribd.com/doc/22795140/Hispanic-Business-JPKs-Dan-Pena. 
25. ^ "SEC Info on International Media Holdings, Inc.". http://www.secinfo.com/dv49q.51.htm. 
26. ^ "Stuart Goldsmith's Sales Letter for "Your First Hundred Million".". http://www.infomarketingblog.com/stuart-goldsmiths-sales-letter-for-your-first-hundred-million. 
27. ^ "Your First 100 Million 2nd Edition".". http://www.malebits.com/article31162.html. 

External links

• Dan Peña Website
• The Guthrie Group
• Advanced Marketing Consultants
• Godsey, Kristin Dunlap. "Take no prisoners." Success 43, no. 10 (December 1996): 9. Business Source Elite, EBSCOhost (accessed May 12, 2009).

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Name	Pena, Daniel S., Sr.
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Date of birth	August 10, 1945
Place of birth	Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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