Saturday, November 24, 2018

Knowledge Management . Brand Specialist . Investment Strategy
Lavona D. King (Lavona Veneti)

Investment Manager
Providence Bank & Trust
(July 2018 – Present)

Investor/Designer
Restoration Hardware
(November 1989 – Present)
Van Dyke's. Signature Hardware. Rejuvenation.

Investor
York Wall
Arte. Vogue Fabrics.

Investor and Senior Project Coordinator
Peoples Light Gas and Coke
(June 2013 – Present)
Coca Cola. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Vive la Commune.

Investor

Investor
22K
Choice Hotels (November 2016 - January 2019) Starbuck's Coffee. Starbuck's Coffee Reserves.

Book Artisian/Paperié/Printmaker
Académie Royale des Beaux Arts
Bourgeois Aimé. (Paper Source. Anchor Graphics. Graphic Chemical. Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing Company. Knight & Leonard Co. Printers. A.W. Faber. Utrecht Art Supplies.)

Investment Manager/Designer/Artisian (VV)
Eye on Design/De Beers
LVCIA. BVLGARI. LVNA. BRÜT. Investor
Cost Plus World Market
(October – Present)
Nadeau. Art & Artifact. Primitive. Pagoda Red. Dara Tribal Village.

Investor/Manufacturer
John M. Smythe . Aronson. Ashley Furniture. Shaw Floor. Flor. Wayfair. Joy Bird. . Froy. Article.

Investor Manufactuer
Scully and Scully. Paragon. Royal Doulton. Aynsley. Nymphenburg. Fontanini Dépose. Vincennes Sévres Porcelain. Lennox. Serena and Lily. Royal Vulgari. 


Investor
ANCHOR HOCKING
(January 1999 – Present)

Investor
U-verse
September 1991 - Present NASA / NATO
IBM. Apple. T-Mobile. Apple Pay. 

Investor
Ballard Designs

Fabulous and Baroque. Brocade.

Investor
Serta
(February 2016 – Present)
Casper. Avocado. Scott Living. Saatva.

Senior Investor
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation March 2017 – Present . Sweetwater Music & Pro Audio . Zildjian . Ludwig

Investor
AmaWaterways River Cruises March 2016 – Present (2 years 9 months) AmaWaterways Limited . Viking Cruises . Chicago Yacht Club . RedStar Fencing Club . North Side Archery Club

Investor
Gold Medal Concessions March 2014 – Present (4 years 9 months) . Redmoon Theater (Redmoon Cosmedics) . Lyric Opera (La Vie Boheme). Lucent Dossier Circus (Macbeth) . Chopin Theatre (Punch & Judy) . Drury Lane Theatre (Mid Summer Night's Dream)

Senior Investor
Pendleton Woolen Mills October 1991 – Present . London Fog . Harris Tweed . Chanel . Analog Underground. Siabella Court. Lindsey Thornberg. 

Senior Investor
Virgin Group (33K) October 1991 – Present (27 years 2 months) . Virgin Records . Virgin Comics . Virgin Mobile . Virgin Hotel and Cafè

Investor/Artisan
JOHN C. CAMPBELL FOLK SCHOOL February 2014/16

Investor
VIDA & Co. (22K) February 2012 – Present

Investor/Principal Investigator
1-800-Flowers.com 

Broker/Antique Appraisals/Prop Stylist Universal
1991 – Present
. Lincoln Antique Mall . Sotheby's Auctions . Smithsonian Institution . Salvage One . Jan's Antiques . Hunters Alley . Narrative . 1st Dibbs

Investor/Sommelier
The Court of Master Sommelier January 2018 – Present . Henri Bourgeois . Yorkshire Vineyards . Chat Noir . Caretaker Wines . Owl Ridge

Investment Manager
June 2018 – Present Old Town School of Folk Music

Primary Investor/Brand Management
Premium Beauty Supply January 2005 – Present (13 years 11 months) Coty. Chanel. L'Oréal. Avon. Max Factor. Helene Curtis.

Investor/Senior Designers was the day 
Coach October 1991 – Present . John Fluevog . Cydwoq . Pom d'Api . Chie Mihara . Ashland Leather Co. . Horweens

Investor/National Field Director
Grasse BIOTECH
October 1991 – Present


Life Sciences (Life Sciences : Biotech. Architecture. Agriculture. Landscaping. Beekeeping. Horticulture. Napropathy. Homeopathy.) . Revolution Microelectro . Earthship Biotecture. . The Hive . The Arcview Group (Greenhouse Group Windy City Cannabis. Seven Point. PDI Medical. Maplegen Care. Elevele Highland Park Dispensary. Earthmed. Midway Dispensary. New Age Care. THC)

Investor/Artisan Parfumeur Université Européenne des Senteurs & Saveurs
February 2016 – March 2016 . Crabtree & Evelyn . Le Labo . Officine Universelle Buly 1803 . Farmacia Santa Maria Novella . Coté Bastide . Aleppo . L'Occitane en Provence . Officina Santa Maria Novella . Demeter Fragrance . Beekman 1802 . Margot Elena Brands . Tatine Candles . Farmacopia . Cire. 

Investor


Knowledge Manager
Shrine Capital April 2018 – Present (8 months) . task recovery collections . default specialist . consolidations . liabilities . collateral damages

Partnership
Universal, Inc.
The Ritz Carlton Hotel Group Convergence 2029 . OMEGA ~ broadcast vision, IT development, revolutionary, data-driven computer science . ORRIS ~ road trippin, music, coven craft . OASIS ~ wellness focused eco-luxe resorts. nature. yoga. ganja. . OATHE ~ design firm and media collective . OMNI ~ concevoir. key club. bar.

Sole Proprietress
Beloved & Co. Purveyors of Arcane Delights 2002 – Present ladylavona@gmail.com 
alchymié.  (infernale rouge. kuhl. poudre de nocturne. fleurs.) parfume Le Labo ((devalier :: malfiore. tura. morja. luna. nova. fevè. zai. jahal.)) drago sangré. esoteric apothecary. arcanum. royale natura. supernatural specimens. black forest relics. woodland echoes. esoterica. cupid candies. aqua vitae. lefèvre utile. bourgeois aimé. herbier. incendia. decouveré . salon de vodou. poupées. ®

Sorcière (((Grimiore. Blackthorn. Ravenwood. les Misérables. Vodou Enfant. Chapelerié. Atticus. Bizango.))) Corona (((Crown Spirits Salem Craft. Witch Works.))) Alchymié. (((Oberon. Cornwall Paperié. Tinaja (((Venetian Stone. Morticulture. Vasille. Lost Mountain.)))

Exelon Generation
Energy Manager
Exelon Nuclear October 1993 –  November 2014 Nuclear Energy Management . private equity . building automation . food and drug distribution

Private Equity and Investments
Boussole Properties October 1991 – Present 
Re/Max. Wallace Realty. Environmental Working Group. Kaleidoscope Working Group. Trump Management Organization. Cagan Realty. Platform. Estate Properties.

Private Equity, Venture Capital and Investments. Almost two decades of Luxury Real Estate sales and appraisal experience! Pro-Management of Historical Districts and Houses of Ill-Rupute. Auctions and antiquarian prop management for MGA, Paramount, Warner Bros., Columbia Records, Universal, 21st Century Fox, Walt Disney and Sony. Site locator for Vouge, Architectural Digest . All Rights Reserved ®

Studio Manager
Universal Studios Hollywood October 1991 – Present (27 years 2 months) Haunt Antiques. Gothic Rose Antiques. Architectural Artifacts. Prop management of archives for studio north

Primary Investor
Whole Foods October 1992 – Present (26 years 2 months) Midwest College of Natural Medicine . Green Street Market . Oberweis Dairy . Fruitful Yield . Sherwyn's Health Food Shops . Starwest Botanicals . Mountain Rose Herbs . Heavy Petal . Healing Earth Resources . Argo Tea

Investor/Account Manager
Kinfolk February 2016 – October 2018 . Axel Vervoordt . Sibella Court . 

Real Estate Investor
Atria Senior Living October 2016 – July 2018 (1 year 10 months) The Solana Deer Park

Warner Brothers
October 2001 – present . Universal Inc. . Restoration Hardware . Hyde Park Mouldings, Inc. . Pavé Tile, Wood & Stone, Inc. . Daltile . Caesarstone US . Old Monterrey Handcrafted Tile . Sherwin-Williams . National Construction Rentals . Sky Witch . Odyssey . John Deere . Gold Medal Products Co. . Gold Medal Concessions . 

Project Manager Civil
Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG July 2017 – April 2018 . Project 871 (Diesel) . Project 372 (Gasoline)

Brand Manager
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars March 2016 – April 2018 quality. IJVSMBRLCA-pre84

Investor/Senior Designer
Saint Laurent March 2005 – September 2017

Real Estate Investor
Grand Lux Hotels July 2009 – . Ritz-Carlton . Hyatt . Regent . Boutique Hotels . Autograph Collection . Marriot . Design Hotel Investor
Sprout Landscaping . Sprout Home . JV Landscaping . Landscape Pros . Construction Pros . Krusinski Construction Company

Research Development
DRW March 2005 – February 2012 (7 years) Greater Chicago Area

Botanist
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) July 1995 – 2011 (16 years) . Detroit Conservatory . Psychedelic Plant Conference . Detroit Honey Co-op
1994 – 1996

Chicago State University
C.L.A.I.M (Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers) Criminal Justice 2014 – 2017

Columbia College Chicago
Liberal Arts 1993 – 1994

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Internship :: Prof. Marilyn Houlberg; Beaux Arts 1994 – 1998 nantesinternationalprogram.com Activities and Societies: Société Spiritueux

Education and Public Programs Volunteer Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art 1999 – 2010 (11 years) Arts and Culture SAIC Gallery :: Pilsen Art Walk. Flat Iron Arts. Long Gone John. La Luz de Jesus. Ridge Art (maybe) Museum of Contempory Art. Museum of Mexican Fine Art. 

COURSES

Independent Coursework . Womens Self-Employment Project Inc. Chicago, IL (Economics) . Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers, Chicago, IL (Family Law) VOLUNTEER WORK
voluteer meal server Sarah's Circle PresentCivil Rights and Social Action

Project Manager Illinois Tenants Union PresentCivil Rights and Social Action Tenement House Act ::: sanctions

Museum Curator Smithsonian Institution 1991 – Present (27 years)Arts and Culture Archeology and Anthropology ::: Sumerian. Mesopotamian. Eygptian. Mongolian. Native American (Iroquois, Navajo, Hopi), Mesoamerican. French Colonial. American Colonial.

Knowledge Manager
Environmental Working Group
(February 2008 – October 2018)
Psych-Conferencing :::: Tulsi Agro Food Industries ::: Bloomberg :: Midwood Brands LLC : private equity and investments, regional development, health risks, bi-products, ingredients, preventative measures.

Education and Public Programs Volunteer Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art 1999 – 2010 (11 years)Arts and Culture SAIC Gallery, Pilsen Art Walk, Flat Iron Arts, Long Gone John, La Luz de Jesus
Mentor Agricola Management Group LLC 2016 – Present
Environment Biotech. Architecture. Agriculture. Landscaping. Beekeeping. Horticulture. Napropathy. Homeopathy.

Ritz-Carlton Hotel Group
October 1991 – Present

PROJECTS

Bon Marché ® Starting March 2017 The Macy's building is Private Equity and was leased out to Ivana Trump in 1992. It was built by Kahlil Gibran and my great-grandmother Marie's father, Éliphas Lévi. Frango was a brand of his Parisian confectionary, called the Bon Marché, which the building was originally intended for. When he couldn't afford to utilize the building after the "Chicago Fire", Marie started a confectionary called Lefévre Utile on the 10th Floor. She and her first husband opened a chocolate factory called Whitman's Chocolate as a result of her success. Whitman's assembly line delivered her from "hell's kitchen". In 1921 her brother Napoleon branded his merchandise from the Orient, Marshall Field and Co. with William Frederick Cody (Blackbeard) and James Butler Hickok (Wild Bill Hickok). The Cowboys herded cattle through Bucktown and also worked for The Barnum and Bailey Rodeo with Theda Bara as Pocahauntas. Wild Bill was an artisan saddle maker for John M. Smyth Co.

The name Bon Marché was resurrected in 1946 as Frango Mints Candy Shop by Herman Berghoff and Henri "Bourgeois" Bendel. In 1956 Marie opened another chocolate factory and re-branded as Fannie May with her second husband John Hancock for her daughter Theda. She used the money to finance the Grand Re-opening of Sax Fifth Avenue in Oakbrook Center. In 1958 she started yet another brand called Cupid's Candies with my mother Rosemary. In 1975 Rosemary completed her cookbook called Betty Crocker which included her baked goods.

Kaleidoscope Working Group ®

Crooked Stick ~ buy.sell.trade.eat.
De Profundis ~ occult books and device
Hexhaus ~ home and hearth

Jitterbug Perfume. Earthen. Kindred. Thugee Nat. RedMoon Cosmetics.

Task recovery...
Humboldt House. Gather. Gem. Gowler. City Escape. Eskell. Healing Earth Resouces. Nu-Botanics (Indio-Shaman, Mexico). Hex. Botanica Palo Mayombe.

Task recovery for Veneti Farms (including re-branding) Green Street Market. Elliott's Dairy. Tropicana. Mott's. Sunny Acres. Owl Ridge. Chat Noir. Maille. Heinz. Grey Poupon.

Task Recovery for De Profundis Press stolen from Le Labo ~ Chicago (Knight & Leonard Co. Printers) at Steel Petal Press

Task Recovery for Homme D'affaires Orange Moon. Velvet Goldmine.

Fanny May, Frango, Heinemann's Bakery, Whitman's Chocolate, Cupid Candies, Adams Pure Chewing Gum (((Clove Chewing Gum, Black Jack Chewing, Beeman Chewing Gum, Choward's Violet Mints, Sen-Sen Confection Sucrerie, Clark's Teaberry Gum, ect.))), Hershey's Chocolate Co., Brach's Candies, Maurice Lenell Cooky Co., Stella D'oro, D’Amato’s Bakery, Ferrara Pan Candy Co., LEROUX (formally known as Schwarzwälder or Jezynowka)

Vive La Commune ® Vichy ® Starting February 2015 Motel & Café

Grande Lux Hotels ® Starting October 1991 Grande Lux Hôtels ::: Paris . Dubai . Sintra . Cairo . Ethiopia . Saudi Arabia . Edinburgh . Calcutta . Antwerp . Prauge . Moscow . Copenhagen . Portugal . 
Morocco . London . Mexico City . NYC . Devonshire . Chicago . Philadelphia . St. Louis . Minneapolis . New Orleans . Boston . Portland. Denver . Cinnanati . Washington . Dallas . Georgia  . Minneapolis . Milwaukee . 

Solve et Coagula 1994 – 2018

Silver Novelty & Co. Lip Service Union Liquor Foremost Liquors & Wines Rothschild's British Tobacco Co. The Court of the Master Sommelier


De Profundis ® ~occult books and device~
Heretic witchcraft and revolution
Wyrd Cookery potluck and cunning craft
Sanctus Sabbat sabbatical witchcraft
Sin the seductress, the saint and the sorceress
The Witch's Indispensable Assistant
le Nature

wind kissed pictures présentes ® Les Vampires Häxan Nosferatu Cleopatra The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Metropolis Macbeth The Seventh Seal Rapsodia Satanica Madame Butterfly (1926) Mary Pickford
Georges Méliès
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) Daisies (1966)
Charlie Chaplin Groucho Marx
music by the Lovage Orchestra

Organizations

Backburner Gallery Artist/Curator Starting 1999 An Occult-Centric Art Gallery located in Chicago's West Loop

Sanctus Sabbati Head Mistress Starting 1991 Sabbatical Witchcraft Coven
First Amendment "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, the press, the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and/or to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Temple Of Kriya Yoga August 1997 – February 2012 Vedic Yoga . Vedic Astrology

Noir Blanche Galerié Artist/Curator Lost Art ::: Francisco Goya. John Waterhouse. Gustav Klimt. Austin Osman Spare. Hieronymus Bosch. Leonora Carrington. Beatrice Wood. Louise Bourgeois. Lady Frieda Harris. Alphonse Mucha. Tiffany Studios. T. Hingre. Arthur Rackham. Rosaleen Norton. J. J. Grandville (les fleurs animees). The Louvre Collection (etchings). Frédéric François Chopin. Salvador Dali.