Background & Scale
Electrical engineer by training. Operations and QA automation at AOL through the '90s. Co-founded and ran a nationwide company remote-first from 2004. Founding managing partner of an angel fund. Now hands on with AI every day for the businesses I advise.
Current Focus & Roles
Executive AI & Tech Advisory
Fractional executive technology advisor. I sit on your side of the table for tech investments, vendor claims and data architecture, and I am not selling software.
Strategic Management Coaching
Weekly work with founders on the operating basics: meeting cadence, scorecards, and who owns what. Founder-driven chaos to a rhythm that runs without you.
HV Venture Hub & Startups
Entrepreneur in Residence and advisor at SUNY New Paltz’s Hudson Valley Venture Hub. Capital efficiency and investor diligence for founders, from someone who has sat on the investor side of that table.
Operating at Scale
Enterprise AI Prototypes & Agentic Systems
I architect Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, serverless sub-agents on Google Cloud, and the deterministic tools around them. The point is that work your staff does by hand every day gets done by a system, and somebody can maintain it after I leave.
Hudson Valley Startup Fund
Founding managing partner. Technical and business due diligence on regional growth companies and emerging technology, and a decade of watching which founders take advice and which do not.
CLUBWAKA
CIO and co-founder. We ran a nationwide business remote-first starting in 2004, years before most people had heard of a Zoom call, and built our own enterprise software and web services teams to scale it to $8.5M.
AOL
Core host connectivity, UNIX systems and software automation during the internet’s first big scaling era. AOL Instant Messenger was my baby.
Speaking & Workshops
Keynotes, panels, executive workshops, board retreats. I talk about what it is like to run a business with your hands on the technology, and I do not do hype.