Engineer, operator, investor. Austin, Texas.
I redesign how founder-led businesses work. Twenty years across manufacturing, data science, supply chain, procurement, and customer support, most of it spent finding the places a business quietly fights itself. Everything I am involved in is listed below.
Companies & building
Group 18
Consulting for founder-led businesses that outgrew the way they were built. Around $3 million in revenue, everything still runs through the founder, and working harder has stopped helping. We redesign the org so it stops fighting itself.
Holding company
Where Group 18 is headed: owning and operating a group of cash-flowing businesses rather than advising on them.
Boards & investing
TJ Angels
An angel syndicate backing founders who came out of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, where I went to school.
Angel investments
Small checks alongside founders I know well.
Writing
The Catalyst
The leader is the lever. One idea you can put to work before the week is out, drawn from twenty years of running operations.
Appearances
Gia AI
Leaving Atlassian to build Group 18, and what the first stretch on my own actually looked like.
The Girl Dad Show
Episode 184. Raising kids on purpose rather than by default, and how that rhymes with running a company.
GrasshoppHer
Holding two opposing ideas at once without collapsing into either, and where balance stops being useful.