Abe March
@abemarch
About
Abraham F. March (Abe F.March) is an international business consultant and author, living near Landau,Germany with his wife Gisela.
An active retiree, he enjoys hiking and exploringthe local vineyards and can also be heard singing with a regional men’s choir.Mr. March’s career has taken him around the world to work in many areas fromhis birthplace in the USA to Canada, Europe and the Middle East.
Mr. March grew up inYork County, Pennsylvania on the family farm, and he served in the USAF from1957-61.
His business career got underway with the computing sciences divisionof IBM's service bureau where he held positions as manager of administrationand operations analyst. He later joined an international cosmetic companywhere he rapidly achieved top distributor status and was promoted to vicepresident of sales development and product market management, an opportunitywhich took throughout the USA and into Canada, Greece and Germany.
With internationalexperience and an entrepreneurial spirit, Mr. March started his own importingbusiness headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon, for the distribution of cosmeticsand toiletries to the Middle East markets. With ease about him and a talent fordeveloping business relationships, he also functioned as a locator of goods andservices sought by Mid-Eastern clients before the civil war in Lebanondestroyed his successful business enterprise.
Mr. March returned to theUnited States to start over, and was soon working on an international level onceagain. His subsequent work involved Swan Technologies, Inc., a personalcomputer manufacturer in West Germany, and back to the US to work with StorkNV, supporting a fleet of 1200 Fokker Aircraft.
His first book, “To Beirut and Back - AnAmerican in the Middle East” was published in 2006, and is a memoir of hisadventures that took him to Lebanon in the 1970s.
His second book, “TheyPlotted Revenge Against America” was published in 2009, was inspired byAmerica’s invasion of Iraq.
His third book, “JourneyInto The Past,” with contributing author Lynn Jett, was published in 2009. It is a time travel romance story withsetting among the ancient castles of Germany.
