Experience · 2001 to present

Twenty-five years,
on the record.

Operator, founder, and builder across travel, real estate, luxury consumer, and investment businesses. The roles below are the record; the Work page is the proof of the last one.

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  1. 2024 to present

    Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder

    Planet 5 · Jackson, Wyoming

    A luxury consumer group: fine art, Everest Coffee Company, Guardian memberships, and expeditions.

    • Lead operations, technology, and growth across two consumer brands from launch, including sourcing at origin, fulfillment, memberships, and high-ticket expedition sales.
    • Architected and shipped the entire operating stack myself: commerce from browse through checkout to fulfillment, a 175-table production database, and an AI workforce across six business functions at a running cost of a few hundred dollars a month.
    • Lead operational execution of a $25M, ten-year Himalayan preservation partnership built on commerce rather than charity.
    • Built the investor materials, data rooms, and financial model behind the company’s capital raise.
  2. 2026 to present

    Board Member

    Mountain Preservation Foundation · Wyoming nonprofit, forming

    The nonprofit arm that carries the preservation work permanently.

    • Structured the revenue-based pledge model that connects the commercial ventures to protected corridors.
    • Built the donation platform and campaign pages, live and accepting gifts for the Nepal program.
  3. 2024 to present

    Independent Engagements

    Investment funds and ventures · Concurrent with the operating role

    Fixed-scope builds and advisory for funds and founders.

    • Autonomous trading platform for a venture fund: twenty-plus systematic strategies, regime detection, tiered risk, and a self-retraining AI advisor reporting every four hours unattended.
    • AI-native investor portal for a newly formed real estate fund: six role-based agents, a secure document vault, and role-scoped access.
    • Venture design for a consumer nature-protection company: strategy, brand, interactive product, financial model, and investor materials, end to end.
    • A health and performance app for a professional athlete, and a speech-first AI language-learning platform.
  4. 2022 to 2024

    Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

    Revedy · AI underwriting and market intelligence for real estate investment
    • Co-founded the platform and led strategy; analyzed more than $55 billion in short-term-rental assets for investors, lenders, and property managers.
    • Built AI systems for capital allocation and underwriting before the current AI cycle: dynamic pricing, revenue management, regulatory risk by market, and institutional acquisition strategies.
  5. 2017 to 2022

    President

    Authentic Vacations · PE-backed online travel company

    Custom travel to Ireland, the UK, and Europe for North American travelers.

    • Ran the company P&L through sustained 30 to 50 percent year-over-year growth; built the systems and team structure required to support that scale.
    • Owned commercial strategy, technology, and operations across North America: booking technology, supplier contracting, digital marketing economics, channel and OTA dynamics, tour-operator margins, and post-pandemic recovery operations.
  6. 2013 to 2017

    Vice President, Sales & Marketing, North America

    Authentic Vacations
    • Joined through the acquisition of my booking technology, which became the company’s core platform, and served as the engineering lead behind it.
    • Led North American revenue; promoted to President.
  7. 2010 to 2013

    Managing Partner, then President

    Wine Bookings · Travel booking technology, acquired by Authentic Vacations
    • Founded a travel-technology company in wine tourism: online booking for winery experiences and marketplace supply acquisition.
    • Wrote and led the booking platform, ran the company, and sold it to Authentic Vacations.
  8. 2001 to 2010

    Independent Consultant

    Ireland and London
    • Nine years of independent technology and operations consulting across European travel and technology businesses.
30-50%
annual growth as President of a PE-backed company
1
booking-technology company built, led, and acquired
$55B+
assets analyzed by a platform I co-founded
30
production systems live today

Capabilities

Five things I am hired for. Each one is backed by a role above and a system on the Work page.

P&L and operations leadership

Ran a PE-backed company’s full P&L through years of 30 to 50 percent growth. Team structure, supplier contracting, board reporting, and multi-brand operations from launch through scale.

Technology and engineering leadership

Wrote and led booking technology that became an acquirer’s core platform. Led engineering organizations, then architected a thirty-system production stack alone. I know what engineering costs, how it fails, and when to build versus buy.

Growth and commercial

North American revenue leadership, digital marketing economics, channel and OTA dynamics, memberships, and high-ticket funnels. Growth measured against settled payments, not vanity metrics.

Finance, modeling, and investor materials

Three-statement models, data rooms, teasers and decks, and raise materials built to survive diligence. A $55B underwriting platform and trading analytics with verified, never retro-fitted records.

AI operating models and automation

AI readiness audits, agent workforces with independent verification, customer-facing concierges with anti-fabrication guardrails, governance and measurement, and handover to the permanent team.

Where I have operated

Rooms I have worked in as an operator, not only as a builder.

Travel & hospitality

Two decades: booking technology founder, President of a PE-backed tour operator, and now expeditions.

Real estate & proptech

Co-founder and CSO of a $55B AI underwriting platform; investor systems for a real estate fund.

Luxury & consumer

COO of a luxury consumer group: fine art, specialty coffee, memberships, and expeditions.

Investment management

Trading systems, fund portals, and investor-grade reporting for funds and family offices.

Private equity portfolios

Ran a PE-backed portfolio company as President; now diagnose and build inside them.

Media & creative

Film, content, and brand systems run as software across every customer surface.