Gene Baldassari was born in 1951 in Trenton, NJ. He graduated from Mercer County Community College and The College of NJ with degrees in computer science, media communications, and marketing. As a part time musician, he founded and managed a band that performed at over 500 private parties.

He also volunteered to perform at many nursing homes and charities. Gene was a cost analyst in the cost savings department of Fedders Corporation. Later, he did computer tech support and computer sales in a business that he launched and managed.

Gene was a past president of the NJ chapter of the National Health Federation – a health rights group. He was also a past district director of Fair Tax NJ. He wrote and produced an audio course on bottom line computing in 1988. And he is the author of “Survival of the Slickest by Gene Louis”, a book calling for free market competition in the legal trade.