Paul D. Kadavy

As a thirty-year career banker and trust officer for Norwest Corporation, now Wells Fargo & Co., one of the nation's largest financial institutions, Paul D. Kadavy was president of numerous banks in three states. He also headed a multi-billion dollar trust department, managed a team of investment professionals, and was a trusted advisor to many of the banks' individual clients. He also subsequently served as president and chief executive officer for another banking enterprise in Las Vegas, Nevada. Now retired from banking, he is a writer, teacher and public speaker.

Kadavy has served as a faculty member of the National Graduate Trust School at Northwestern University, The Schools of Banking, Inc., the American Institute of Banking and numerous community colleges in several states. He was a lecturer on trust, investment and banking subjects to FDIC and Federal Reserve Bank examiners in Washington, D.C. He has been a public speaker for the past twenty-five years.

He has written many banking, trust and investment articles for such national publications as "Financial Review," "Trusts & Estates," "Pension World," "The Collector/Investor," "Cases & Comment" and "American Bankers Association Trust Management."

Kadavy is the author of many financial and other books including "Covered Call Writing Demystified," "Covered Call Writing with Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)," "Covered Call Writing with Qs and Diamonds," "Put Option Writing Demystified," "Writing Uncovered Put and Call Combinations," "Short Spider Straddles," "Put and Call Option Writing for the Investment Advisor and Financial Planner," "Personal Cash Flow and Net Worth Planning Demystified" and "The Book of World-Class Quotations: The Best of the Best Quotations on Earth." His books are available on Amazon.com.

Kadavy has completed his first novel and is currently working on a second novel, both of which he plans to publish around the end of the year.