I work with founders, creators, and business owners to build businesses worth more, close acquisitions worth making, and exit on terms worth taking.
Book a call if you're ready to move on something real. A direction is enough to start.
Work With Me
Where you're starting shapes where we begin. Find the path that fits and we'll go from there.
For creators, experts, consultants, and founder-led teams.
I help creators, experts, and founder-led teams build a product stack that works: cleaner offers, stronger customer movement, and a plan for what to build next. Fewer random launches. More customers who stay.
For buyers and owners.
I evaluate businesses, structure offers, work through deal preparation, and negotiate alongside you. The goal is the same whether you're buying or selling: close on the right terms and walk away better.
For founder communities, creator groups, acquisition audiences, events, podcasts, and workshops.
Talks built on a working operator's view and 200+ deals worth of advisor work. Product, ownership, acquisitions, and what makes a business worth more.
My career has lived at the intersection of product, acquisitions, and what makes a business worth more.
I was Head of Product & Experience at Contrarian Thinking, where I worked with thousands of buyers and owners, helping them acquire businesses, grow what they owned, and build more value into both. I'm a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Certified Business Broker. I've spent more than 20 years working with business owners, and my experience on the product side goes back just as far.
Today, I work alongside founders, creators, buyers, and owners on the hardest parts of building, buying, and selling a business. Practical, direct, and in the work with you. The goal is a more valuable business, not a busier one.
I care about ownership done well. Cleaner thinking, stronger operations, and a business that's easier to run, grow, transition, or sell.
The work that makes a business easier to grow is the same work that makes it easier to operate, buy, sell, or improve. Product, acquisitions, operations, and ownership all compound into one thing: enterprise value.
Solve problems people will pay for. Earn the trust that keeps them. Create value for yourself and others.
Cash flow quality, revenue predictability, concentration risk, owner independence, transferability, growth. The same things sellers undervalue.
Better systems, clearer decisions, stronger operations. A business that's easier to run is easier to finance, scale, transition, and sell.
Essays for buyers, owners, and builders on acquisitions, products, and building a business worth more.
On Owning is where I write about the work most advisors treat as somebody else's problem. The decisions in front of every owner and every buyer. What to build, what to buy, what to fix, what to sell, and when.
Whether you own a business, are buying one, or are building one, this is where the real thinking gets done.
Speaking
I speak to founder and creator communities about building better product businesses, and to acquisition and ownership audiences about buying, selling, and improving enterprise value. Practical and direct. Built for the people who came to leave with something, not collect another idea.
Spoken to founder, creator, and business owner audiences for more than 20 years.
Background
The same discipline that makes a product worth paying for makes a business worth buying. Product strategy and acquisition advisory look like different work. They're not. The question is always the same: where does the value actually come from?
Product work, done well, is architecture: what gets built, in what order, for what customer, toward what outcome. Today is a culmination of over twenty years in finance, marketing, acquisitions, and product. I spent two years as Head of Product at Contrarian Thinking where we grew membership by over 3x by enhancing existing products and rounding out the product stack to reach an even larger audience. Knowing what drives enterprise value is what made that possible.
There is one pattern that surfaces consistently across the businesses I've worked with and the deals I've been involved in: emotional attachment shapes decisions. Founders launch products ahead of what the data supports. Sellers price businesses based on effort and history. Buyers get attached to deals and start rationalizing past the data. I'm a numbers person and I'm a process person. Data gives us a cleaner read on reality and opportunity, and a structured process gives us a repeatable and provable way to act on it.
Book a call. Tell me what you're working on. If there's a fit, we'll talk through the right next step. If there isn't, I'll tell you that too.
You'll be asked what you're building, buying, selling, or improving so the conversation starts in the right place.