March 2000 to December 2004-Brookside Country Club-Director and Officer
• CFO and Member of 2000 Club Acquisition Committee
• Board member form inception to December 2004
• Treasurer/CFO for 3 of 5 yearsCertification & Education:
• Certified Public Accountant--Member of AICPA and California State Society of CPA’s
• June 1971-- Fresno State College--BS Business Administration

Ed Brink

Edward B. Brink Jr., age 56 and 30 year Stockton resident, is married to Tarika Brink and has six children.

After graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1972, Ed started his 35 year business career in New York City with Amstar Corp. (makers of Domino and Spreckles sugar). In 1975 Mr. Brink joined Tillie Lewis Foods and its’ parent company Ogden Food Products Inc. in Stockton. With Tillie /Ogden he broadened his business knowledge/experience while handling numerous sales, marketing and management responsibilities.

In 1984 Ed formed Benno Food Products Corp., manufacturing and selling dry salad dressings and seasonings mixes to food service operators throughout the United States. Benno’s products were marketed and sold under the Foothill Farms Brand which Ed created and trademarked. After 20 years of growing sales and successful operations, Ed sold the Foothill Foods Brand and operations to Precision Foods of St Louis MO.

In November 2004 Ed and his partner Pat Bennett started Focused Sports & Entertainment to market and promote sporting events and related activities. Brink and Bennett are the managing partners of FSE. In February 2005 FSE obtained the exclusive/long term franchise to promote all Canadian Professional Golf Tour events in California, Hawaii and Nevada. In April 2005 FSE underwrote/promoted the Northern California Classic at Brookside CC and the Foster Farms California Classic at Del Rio CC both of which were televised internationally on The Golf Channel.

Mr. Brink was instrumental in organizing and served as the Chairman of the Brookside Member Acquisition Committee from March to final Acquisition in November 2000. Following the successful Acquisition of Brookside, Ed served as the Clubs first Board Chairman and successfully guided the Club through its first year of Member ownership. In October 2005, Mr. Brink was again elected by the Brookside Membership to serve a three year term as a Board Director and currently serves as the Chairman of the Membership Committee.

D. Tom Patterson

To tell you how D. Tom Patterson became a journalist, we must tell you how 5-foot-6, 180 pound D. Tom Patterson met 6-foot-4, 240 pound All-America running back Dickie Moore.
Head on.

After an all-state football career for the Hanna (Wyoming) Miners, a Class B with 32-students in the graduation class, Patterson decided to try his fortunes as a walk-on freshman at Western Kentucky University.
Mr. Moore, meet Mr. Patterson.

One should never try to tackle a running back that big with your helmet down.
Moore scored a touchdown. Patterson got knocked out.

And a budding journalism career was about to begin a week later when our Man Seeing Stars was cut from the Hilltoppers.
It was, as they say in the sports pages, a good thing.

The journalism career, Patterson decided, might not be such a bad thing after all. Editor of an award winning high school paper, sports editor of an award winning college paper, Patterson took his first newspaper position, while working on his Masters in English Literature. The job at the Bowling Green Park City Daily News (circulation 17,000) involved going in at 4:30 am, clipping the stream of AP wires, writing two or three stories and then going to Shakespeare class at 10:40 (M-W-F).

From there to the Louisville Courier-Journal sports department where he covered high school sports, outdoor sports, college sports and even some professional sports.
Can you name the infield for the ’75 Big Red Machine? Patterson can.

After seven years of writing, Patterson moved into management, working as an editor in Jackson and Atlanta, where he won numerous writing and editing awards. In 1975, he became executive sports editor of The Denver Post and one of his first hires was a kid named Rick Reilly (yes, that Rick Reilly). The Post was judged best Sunday sports section in the nation in Patterson’s first year. Patterson eventually moved to news, where he became Metro Editor, and in 1982 the Post won its first writing Pulitzer for a series on “Missing Kids.”

Next stop: Sports editor of The Chicago Tribune and two years later assistant managing editor of The NATIONAL Sports Daily, working for Frank Deford. Patterson hired 60 editors in six months. Eventually, Patterson became an investigative reporter for The NATIONAL before returning to Denver to begin a new direction as editor of numerous magazines. That led to the founding of Checkmark Publishing, which Patterson owned and operated with five subcontractors for nearly 10 years. Checkmark published--and developed websites--for the Colorado ski industry and for the Colorado tourism industry. The 2003 Colorado State Vacation guide was judged the best of all states.

In 2004, Patterson finally ask himself this question,
“How much is enough?”

It was time to step back and do something really fun again—working as a sports editor at The Record, a relatively small newspaper in Stockton, California. That lasted nearly two years until Patterson found Ed Brink and Pat Bennett and Focused Sports and Entertainment found Patterson.

It was an opportunity to jump back to Patterson’s real passion—publishing a magazine, marketing and working with idea people.
Thank you Dickie Moore!.

Patterson and his wife Anne, in management at UC-Davis Medical Center, have four children—Kim runs two divisions of a window manufacturing company in Denver, Josh is a Marine Biologist and VP of a company in St. Augustine, Fla., Jeff is a Border Patrol Agent in Arizona and Brian is manager of the spa at the world-famous Peninsula Hotel in Chicago.

Mission & Core Value Statement

Fundamental to FSE’s business/sales proposition is that:

• Every promotion & project be organized, produced & executed to the highest level of integrity and quality, and
• Every sponsorship be fairly priced, providing the participating client sponsor significant commercial value; i.e. marketing, advertising, branding, wholesome customer/employee entertainment and business to business/customer connection opportunities.