Marvin Liebman was born and raised in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, NY. After graduating from high school, Marvin attended, and received a Bachelor’s, Business Administration (BBA) degree from, the Bernard M. Baruch School of Business and Public Administration of the City College of the University of the City of New York. While working at a public accounting firm in New York, he took the several requisite exams and became a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of New York.
Subsequently, Marvin enlisted in the US Army Reserve program and served a total of 6 years of combined active duty and standby reserve status, achieving the rank of sergeant, and receiving an honorable discharge. Shortly after his discharge, Marvin and his wife Simone were married. During their 59 years of marriage, they raised their son and daughter and have enjoyed the gifts of 4 wonderful grandchildren.
After his active-duty period in the Army Reserves, Marvin joined an international CPA firm and developed a specialization as an auditor and eventually was elected to partnership with a further specialization in clients seeking to “go public” and clients already with publicly traded securities. When Marvin’s firm expanded into California, he was selected to transfer to Los Angeles and head the auditing department of the newly established office in Century City. He then took the CPA exam in California s became certified in California.
Marvin was introduced to a prospective client seeking to go public and eventually accepted the offer to resign from the accounting firm and accept the position of Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of the client company. Marvin accepted that offer and subsequently spent more than 25 years as the CFO of more than 7 companies, encompassing more than 12 plants around the United States, always working with the same Chief Executive Officer. Over those years the same management team built, acquired, grew, consolidated, and eventually successfully sold these companies. All the companies utilized various technologies in manufacturing plastic packaging, primarily for food content, and recycling post-consumer plastic bottles.
Approximately 10 years ago, upon Marvin’s first retirement (he agreed to consult for his former CEO in his new ventures for an additional approximately 10 years), Marvin and Simone registered for Encore classes, including Maestro Stephen Piazza’s classes, at Pierce College, and remained students in Maestro Piazza’s classes throughout the years. In addition, they have been subscribers to the concert seasons of the Los Angeles Symphonic Winds (“the Winds”), for which Maestro Piazza was the Conductor/Artistic Director and the driving force of the Winds. Early in those years, Marvin volunteered to join the Winds’ Operations Committee and subsequently, when the Winds separately incorporated and obtained tax exempt 501©3 status from the IRS, Marvin was elected to the Winds’ Board of Directors as well as Treasurer.
