I build relationships that turn into revenue.

I've spent my career learning the same lesson from a lot of different rooms: people do business with people they trust.

That's taken me from selling vacation packages on Carnival's fleet, to building a dealership pipeline from scratch at Text2Drive, to guiding founders through the biggest financial decision of their lives at Blue River Financial Group — where I've helped advise on transactions ranging from $7M to over $300M in enterprise value. Along the way I picked up a Certified Mergers & Acquisitions Advisor (CM&AA) designation, but the through-line has never really been about titles. It's about understanding what someone actually needs, earning the right to help them, and following through.

Faith is a big part of who I am. I spent a year as a missionary in Mexico, helping build a church and an orphanage from the ground up, and I still make time to volunteer in my local community today. That experience shaped how I show up everywhere else in my life — with patience, with follow-through, and with the belief that you build something lasting one relationship at a time.

I'm also a father of three and an avid outdoorsman with Michigan roots — Encinitas, CA is home now, but I'll always be a Midwesterner at heart. My brother was employee number one at Handshake, and watching that company grow from three people into an industry leader left a mark on how I think about building something real from the ground up. I bring that same mentality to every deal, every client, and every team I work with.