I love the underdog. Throughout my career leading both early-stage, venture-backed startups and global private equity-backed corporations, I’ve been motivated to build teams that find creative, often unexpected paths to success.
My journey has taken me from an executive at AOL in the early days of the consumer internet to the management team of two venture-backed startups that successfully exited. I then joined the parent of the New York Stock Exchange as its first Chief Digital Officer. In the past decade, I was a private equity CEO at two different companies, both of which drove 9-figure revenue, and the most recent of which exited successfully in 2019. While a PE CEO, I concurrently founded a software business which we exited to a global travel business.
Over the past 25+ years, I have bought or sold dozens of companies and raised close to $1B in debt and equity. Through my career’s work building executive teams at different companies, I discovered my passion for personal growth. I’m energized by helping others realize the best versions of themselves – particularly the underdogs – and I’m fortunate to do this with ambitious startup founders at Enjoy The Work.