About

This blog is updated very irregularly. But if you’re here, I assume you want a brief bio.

Primary focus:
I am the Founder/ CEO of Galleon, where we are reinventing the For Sale By Owner category.

Coverage: Fast Company, MarketWatch, Fortune

Galleon is a real estate marketplace developing an AI-powered transaction platform. We are on a mission to expand residential real estate inventory, simplify the transaction, and empower customers to purchase and sell homes on their terms.

Previously:

I was the CEO of Curve US, leading its US expansions and crypto rewards product. Prior to that I owner-operated a micro PE firm for 6 years, built media buying agencies both in-house and on my own, co-founded a SaaS product (Vincere), advised Gauss Ventures, and remain a small-time angel investor (check size to 50k).

Outside business interests I’ve had the pleasure of serving as a Volunteer Firefighter/ EMT and through UMVIM and Team Rubicon for many years.

Previously

    • CEO Curve US
    • Advisor, Gauss Ventures
    • Founder, W2PY

      W2PY was a lean, profitable media buying agency with a book of owned & operated assets. Using our own capital we acquired, repositioned, and sold distressed or under-monetized digital assets as a micro PE firm.

    • Investor / VP Growth @ Zift & Net Nanny
    • Chief Digital Officer, Journal Multimedia [acq by Gatehouse, renamed Bridgetower Media]
    • Director of Marketing, EngineerJobs.com & NewYorkJobs.com
    • Founder, Lacuna Group [Digital Marketing Agency]
    • Board of Advisors, Affiliate Summit
    • Advisor, CoSign
    • Advisor, GuideHire

Education

BA from The Citadel, Military College of South Carolina (2003)

Non-Professional Certifications:

  • Firefighter 1 (NFPA 1001) [CT & PA Certified]
  • EMT-B [NREMT & PA Certified]
  • Haz-Mat Awareness [CT & PA Certified]
  • Haz-Mat Operational [CT & PA Certified]
  • Vehicle Rescue Technician, Basic (Awareness/ Ops) [PA Certified]
  • Swift Water Rescue Tech [Dive Rescue International]
  • Early Response Teams (ERT) Team Leader [UMVIM]

Random Cocktail Party Fodder

  • I’ve been a Volunteer Firefighter for 2 departments (Washington CT VFD and Manheim Township Fire Rescue)
  • Studied Arabic @ the American University in Cairo (Cairo, Egypt)
  • Worked a few summers as a Commercial Salmon Fisherman (Bristol Bay, Alaska)
  • Led a Disaster Response team after Hurricane Katrina (Gulfport and Biloxi, MS)

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” [United Methodist saying]