Colts Neck Businessman Mario Romano Celebrates Pop Warner Awards Banquet and Relates Local Story

COLTS NECK, NJ, January 16, 2011

According to Mario Romano, co-founder of the football program in Colts Neck, this banquet was typical of the Pop Warner program that holds a rich history of helping children.

With over six figures given in scholarships to top scholar-athletes, Pop Warner continues supporting students, recently reported Mario Romano of Colts Neck. In no way was I stunned to see that much money in scholarships awarded to students from the Pop Warner group, said Colts Neck co-founder Mario Romano. In addition, the awards banquet acknowledged the contributions of professional athletes and sportscasters. According to Romano, impacting the lives of students and people as a whole is part of the Pop Warner tradition and story.

Mario Romano of Colts Neck, New Jersey knows the Pop Warner football story by heart. "Right before the stock market crash of 1929 some Philadelphia factory owners were having a problem with vandalism by local youth," said the Colts Neck resident Mario Romano. There was nothing for the boys to do with their spare time. "So after 100 windows were broken by rocks, in just one month," continued Mario Romano from Colts Neck, "the company owners met together and recruited Joe Tomlin to form a football league for boys." According to Romano, Tomlin had a commitment to and loved students.

After a chance meeting between the enthusiastic and athletic Tomlin and legendary football coach Pop Warner, the organization would soon bear Warner's famous name, according to Colts Neck program co-founder Mario Romano. "By 1938 there were over 150 teams and by December of 1947, over 2000 spectators witnessed the first 'bowl game,'" stated Colts Neck's Mario Romano. That bowl game was called the Santa Claus Bowl.

Joe Tomlin's pioneering work in children's football and athletics would earn him many accolades. Mario Romano reports that by 1959 the Pop Warner football program incorporated as a non-profit organization. The Colts Neck football program co-founder Mario Romano further explained that by the 1970s Pop Warner added cheerleading. Since then Pop Warner has expanded the cheerleading to performing groups, majorettes, and dancing squads. Today there are over 300,000 boys and girls active in Pop Warner programs. The awards banquet, an annual tradition, reflects Tomlins pioneering commitment to kids, said Romano.

"Now you begin to see why $109,000 in scholarships does not surprise me. Their tradition is a great story of impacting the lives of kids," says Mario Romano, "and when I started looking around Colts Neck in early 2000, I was shocked not to find such a program." According to Mario Romano, some folks in Colts Neck had heard of Pop Warner football. "When I would ask my friends in Colts Neck about Pop Warner football," said Mario Romano, "they would respond that they were familiar with the program, but nothing existed in our area." Mario Romano went to work immediately to bring the nationally recognized program to Colts Neck.

"Four of us began to work together, knowing we basically need three things in Colts Neck," said Mario Romano. The three things necessary to make Pop Warner football a success in Colts Neck, according to Mario Romano, were a location, funds and kids. "After we were turned down for local funds by Colts Neck town officials," said Mario Romano, "they offered us use of the local high school football field."

Mario Romano and his fellow co-founders went to work raising the needed capital funds to make the Pop Warner football dream a reality for Colts Neck. During this capital funding process, Mario was devastated by the sudden and tragic death of his brother Dominic Romano. Yet through that tragedy, the hearts of Mario Romano's friends and family were deeply moved as they pledged and gave over $100,000 in Dominic's name to the Colts Neck football program. "It was a miraculous moment for all of us in Colts Neck," recalled Mario Romano.

"News of this banquet reminds me of my times with the Colts Neck Pop Warner football program. Those memories are some of the most rewarding moments in my life," recently stated Mario Romano. Mario Romano says he still believes that Pop Warner football plays "a huge role in the lives of kids in Colts Neck." According to Mario Romano, "many kids from Colts Neck came through the Pop Warner program and were given chances they would have never received, had the program not been pioneered. That is and will always be the heart of Pop Warner football.

For more information about Pop Warner Football, visit http://www.popwarner.com.

In 1982 while attending college, Mario Romano of Colts Neck, New Jersey began his career on Wall Street with Lehman Brothers. For over fifteen years, Colts Neck community member Mario Romano held several executive level positions with top name Wall Street institutions.

Early in 2000, Colts Neck local Mario Romano began building an equity hedge fund dedicated to the individual investor. Based in Colts Neck, New Jersey Mario held the CEO position of Romano Enterprises LLC until 2004. During this time, Romano suffered a heartbreaking loss when his youngest sibling was tragically killed in a car accident. Although devastating, Colts Neck resident Mario Romano witnessed a terrible tragedy turn to generosity for a great dream and cause a youth football program.

Around the same time he founded Mario Enterprises LLC, Mario Romano noticed that his local community of Colts Neck lacked a youth football program. Being told by Colts Neck officials that money was not available for a Pop Warner football program, Mario Romano set out to raise the necessary funds. Mario Romano witnessed a miracle take place for Colts Neck. Over $100,000 was given in the memory of Mario Romano's younger brother to help fund the Colts Neck Pop Warner football program.

In the first year of the Colts Neck Pop Warner football program that Mario Romano helped establish, fifty-five children signed up for involvement. Over the next four years Mario Romano's Colts Neck dream exploded with growth adding 350 active students. The local paper proclaimed the success with a headline that read: "Colts Neck Community Maker Mario Romano: Committed to Building Youngsters Character Through Pop Warner Football."

With a successful business and a growing Colts Neck football program, Mario Romano stumbled onto a problem plaguing many financial investors in 2004. Colts Neck-based Mario Romano observed that aspiring investors often lacked the ability or means to conduct effective market research. In January of 2005, Mario Romano co-founded Wealth Engineering and Development to help investors from "Colts Neck to Hot Springs, California" effectively invest by having the right knowledge, no matter the size of market. Mario Romano and partner Annette Raynor worked to secure large contractual agreements with InvestView platform of Global Investor Services Inc. In addition, Mario Romano has secured the InvestView program for millions of investors outside of the United States.

Today, bringing over twenty-five years of experience, Colts Neck resident Mario Romano works to provide accurate information to new and aspiring investors through a complete online-based financial education and analysis tools program. From top-quality webinars to data analysis, Colts Neck local Mario Romano and Wealth Engineering and Development help investors invest effectively and grow their personal wealth. During his many years of experience in New York and Colts Neck, Mario Romano has worked to hone motivational skills that allowed him to grow and manage a group of 100 stockbrokers. He now works to motivate and educate individuals on a global scale.
A graduate of the St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in finance and communications, Mario Romano and wife Gina reside in Colts Neck, New Jersey with their three children.