Frederick met her look of steely resolve with one of his own, yet the fires were muted as he slowly told her what she wanted to hear.<br/><br/>"I was brought into what seemed to be the deal of a life time by one of my clients and I put up a good portion of my own personal fortune to help him get this new venture company off the ground.  This was just a week before the stock market bottomed out due to the housing market crash and just before the company got going, my client yanked up stakes and left me sitting there with the ashes.  Four million dollars wiped out in a single second."<br/><br/>He paused, taking a good sip of his wine before continuing.<br/><br/>"He lost very little and I lost everything. The resulting recession took the rest of what I had and now, here I am with no company and very little money.  I am basically looking to start fresh and with a company that understands what great things I am capable of accomplishing... now that I know when to be careful and when to look before I leap."<br/><br/>He squared his shoulders and shrugged, spreading his arms wide.<br/><br/>"You have to lose everything before you can truly understand what it means to suffer... and to learn from those mistakes."