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Mr. Marinkovich was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. He
obtained a Bachelor of Commercial Science degree in accounting
from Seattle University in 1962. After graduation, he joined the
Seattle office of Price Waterhouse & Co. He started his career
on the Firm’s audit staff, but shortly thereafter, followed
his desire to specialize in taxation. In 1970, he transferred
to the Portland, Oregon office to become the head of the tax practice.
He was admitted as a Partner in Price Waterhouse in 1974 and became
the Partner in charge of the Denver, Colorado tax practice in
1978.
While at Price Waterhouse, he gained recognition as an expert
in mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, and partnership
taxation. During those years, he was a CPA in Washington, Oregon,
and Colorado and a member of various organizations connected with
the accounting and tax profession.
In 1980, he resigned from Price Waterhouse and became Chief Financial
Officer of Daniels & Associates in Denver, Colorado. In 1981,
he became President and Chief Operating Officer of Daniels and
all related entities.
Daniels & Associates was the oldest and largest telecommunications
brokerage, consulting and service firm in the United States. In
addition, it became on of the top 20 multi-system operators (“MSO”)
in the cable industry.
As President and Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Marinkovich was
responsible for the daily administration and management of all
Daniels divisions including brokerage, investment banking, cable
system operations, and paging communications. In addition to his
involvement in major acquisitions and syndications, he played
a lead roll for the consortium of five major cable companies that
acquired all of the Westinghouse (Group W) cable operation in
a multi-billion dollar transaction.
Mr. Marinkovich was involved in various cable programming startups
while at Daniels including the formation of the country’s
largest regional cable TV sports network in Los Angeles, California.
In 1988, he coordinated the sale of the Daniels multi-system cable
operating company to Untied Artists, Inc. for well in excess of
$200,000,000.
After the sale, he and his family moved back to the Northwest
where he has invested in real estate, various operating companies
and venture capital organizations. He is currently on the Board
of Centennial Holdings LLC of Denver, Colorado, the managing partner
of the Centennial Funds.
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