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The long version
How I got here
01 / FOUNDATION
Baseball took me to Division I, taught me the long game, and built the habits I still run on. After that, years in Las Vegas running front-office operations at one of the world's largest five-diamond resort properties. Picked up a master's along the way. The unglamorous foundation: how to run something big when things break in real time.
02 / THE OPERATOR CHAPTERS
Bought and ran two franchise locations, served a roster of Fortune 500 event clients, and wound that chapter down cleanly, which is its own lesson. Then I led the operational restructure of a small business with informal books and inconsistent processes, taking it from largely off-books to an SBA-eligible exit.
03 / INSIDE THE STARTUP MACHINE
Then years inside the startup machine. Headed operations across multiple divisions at a venture-backed accelerator, where the work was mostly fixing what wasn't holding together. Ran the Founder Institute's Austin chapter. Built systems for one of the country's top communities for founders and CEOs.
04 / TODAY
Through Topmost Ventures, I've guided early-stage companies through the full lifecycle, from structuring and infrastructure to capital and growth. Seven companies of my own. A book of advisory positions. A small business structured and exited. A franchise owned and operated. A real-estate book I've run myself. Every seat is earned through the work, not just a check.
Real estate
I've run the whole playbook
Property is where I learned that boring beats clever and patient beats lucky. I've owned long-term and short-term rentals, executed a 1031 exchange, wholesaled a property, used hard money lending, and raised capital from private investors.
The book is mine, run on my own balance sheet. It's why proptech is the natural home for what I'm building next. I've lived the transactions, the friction, and the capital structures it's built to improve.
- 011031 exchange
- 02Long-term rentals
- 03Short-term rentals
- 04Wholesale
- 05Hard money lending
- 06Private investor capital
What I'm building
Companies & bets
The businesses I founded and run day to day, plus the holding company and audience I've built around them.
Teams I've worked with along the way
Beyond the businesses
Speaking, judging & community
Director, Founder Institute Austin
Ran the bi-annual accelerator, 2023 to 2025
Austin founder ecosystem
Events, competitions, and peer advisory
Competition judge
Off the clock
When I'm not building
You'll find me four hours into a round of golf, pretending it's meditation. Or on a snowboard somewhere out of state, chasing fresh snow and the reset that comes with it. Live music when I'm in town, which Austin makes easy. Twelve hours into a brisket, because the low and slow ones taste the most like the way I work. I appreciate anything built with intent, cars especially, the engineering as much as the drive. And I'll always spend on the trip, the table, or the moment over the stuff.
What's next
Let's talk
I'm heads-down on something new in proptech, built on the transactions, friction, and capital structures I've actually lived through. Founder, investor, operator, or you just want to talk shop over coffee or a round of golf, my inbox is open. I'm the call when the vision is clear but the execution is falling apart.