Executive leader, advisor, manager and educator focused on innovation and growth.
Managing director of mid-market advisory and management firm Caerus, and always exploring new opportunities. Full-time leader and leadership developer. Creator of the Applied Innovation Pathway series at Tulane University; designer and lead instructor for SCEN-6060. Serial entrepreneur with significant transaction experience, having been an executive leader, senior executive, strategy consultant, investment manager and private equity investor. Extensive experience with start-ups (concept, project or company), in recent years providing early-stage management and strategic growth consulting for businesses in financial, Internet, science and technology, real estate and hospitality sectors, while acting as managing director for a closely-held PE firm.
Concurrently, I've been involved as founder and a c-level manager or acquirer of over a dozen companies, most recently in the technology, defense, infrastructure and manufacturing industries, and have provided transaction-oriented consulting on many more. My direct experience and personal network extend across North, South and Central America; the Caribbean Basin; Eastern and Western Europe; and Asia; and I've been personally responsible for the acquisition of tens of millions of dollars in contracts with SMB, large enterprise, military and government clients.
Presently engaged as a director or active Board Member of several growing companies, I was recognized by CitiBusiness Magazine as a Power Generation Award recipient, by Kappa Sigma with a national Leadership award, am a Beta Gamma Sigma honor society member, and have received both undergraduate and graduate degrees in language, sciences, finance and management from Tulane University.
Specialties: business advisory; executive management; mergers and acquisitions; turnarounds; start-ups; private equity; information and technology.