My purpose in life is to get people to their greatest potential, including my own. I apply the power of storytelling and the art of gathering to accomplish this purpose.

My three guiding principles in life are:

1) Experience is everything. Live by design, not by default.

2) Relationships enhance experiences, and life is our one experience. Make ‘em count.

3) Ruthlessly compete with your own best self.

When I was 19, I graduated from UCLA in two years with a degree in economics, one of my first loves combining math and money. The University of Pittsburgh took on a bet on me or otherwise thought a teenager would do well with graduate students twice my age, and I graduated with an MBA as the school’s youngest graduate at 21 years old.

In 2006, I came back to San Diego to start working on a TV show while producing news at NBC 7/39. I produced and hosted a few TV shows and won an Emmy in 2011 by interviewing CEOs. I found I loved business more than just interviewing people who did business, and I started BAM, a communications agency, in 2008. Today, BAM represents venture backed technology startups that are changing the world for good by telling their stories that matter. In 2023, BAM was acquired by LLYC, a public agency located in 13 countries. I'm also an angel investor and invest in startups and VC funds such as Voyager Ventures, Noemis Ventures, Cooler Heads, Mogul, and Leche that help the people and planet live better and last longer. I've helped BLCK VC with public relations and serve as a Techstars mentor. In 2011, I started Bite San Diego, which became San Diego’s top rated and largest food tour company and sold it in 2016. Soon after, I started OnePitch, a platform to help publicists quit bitching about pitching.

Besides the business stuff, I'm licensed helicopter pilot, a Krav Maga practitioner, a trained Crisis Text Line counselor, an adamant Stoic, a voracious traveler to 80+ countries and counting, and a volunteer with the San Diego Police Department’s Crisis Interventionist team. I hold a PhD in Organizational Change and Global leadership which I completed in 2023. I love hosting a good dinner party that lasts for hours and flipping through a tattered passport. I'm down for a good game of chess and run at 4:30am every day, my version of "dawn patrol."