For more than the past 30 years, Mr. Joliat has been an independent investor and developer in commercial, industrial and garden style apartment real estate, land development and residential home building, restaurant ownership and management, and has had extensive experience in placement of venture private equity in generic pharmaceuticals, medical devices/procedures and oil and gas.
Mr. Joliat has been the Chief Executive Officer of Fieldstone Village Development, LLC since January 2011. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of Joliat & Company, Inc. since October 1988. He has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Joliat Ventures, LLC and Chief Executive Officer of Joliat Enterprises, LLC since January 1988.
Since January 1981, Mr. Joliat has served as Chief Executive Officer and Treasurer of Sign of the Beefcarver Restaurants, Inc. He formed and managed his own investment management company early in his career and was formerly employed by E.F. Hutton, Dean Witter Reynolds and LPL Financial. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Management and Finance from Oakland University (1982) and was awarded a Certified Investment Management Analyst certificate in 1983 after completion of the IMCA program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
From 1996 through 2003, Mr. Joliat served on the Board of Directors of Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. and served in various capacities on its audit, executive and compensation committees.
From 2007 through August 2012, Mr. Joliat served on the Board of Directors of GeoResources, Inc., a company with a class of equity securities registered under the Exchange Act, and served in various capacities on the audit, nominating and compensation committees.