I started on a job site at 18, pulling damaged wood and siding off houses in the summer heat. That fall I left for Goucher College in Baltimore on a lacrosse scholarship. Four years as a starting long-stick midfielder, captain my senior year, a semester at Charles University in Prague, and a degree in business management with minors in economics and international business.

Every summer I came home to intern. Selling copiers door to door for Shamrock Office Solutions, I set three company intern records, mostly by walking into high-rises until security walked me out. The next summer I was inside the numbers at Accela, reconciling sales and payments to get the books audit-ready. That is still the pattern I'm built on: find the person who can say yes, earn the yes, then go make the thing actually happen.

After graduation I did a one-hour evaluation with a 12-year-old lacrosse player named AJ. Three sessions a week later, his improvement got me my first head coaching job: the Pleasanton U12 team that had gone winless the year before. We went undefeated and won the 2019 championship in overtime. One private client became twenty, which became Winn Lacrosse Academy, and with two partners I co-founded Bay Elite, a club that grew past 200 boys from ages 8 to 18.

Sales ran in parallel. At ADP I turned my Bank of the West branch partners into a referral team and acquired a CPA's entire payroll book, more than 100 small businesses in one deal, which put me past 200% of quota on its own. A player's mom got me an interview at Envestnet | Yodlee, where I helped build the business development department from scratch, hit quota in 7 of 8 quarters, earned a promotion to Senior Business Development Manager six months in, hosted fintech events in New York and San Francisco, and opened the conversation that put T-Mobile into digital banking on a $250M deal. During Covid I used Envestnet's tuition program to finish an MBA. At Salesforce I was an enterprise BDR for financial services, opened the Blackstone cycle that closed at $200M, and hit quota in 17 of the 19 months I carried one.

In May 2023 a friend asked me to leave Salesforce and start a construction company with him. My first job was three years of his old company's books. I used AI models to read every transaction and found $5 million in fraud. We shut that company down and started Silver Creek Construction with its crews, and I've since closed and run a $1.6M tenant improvement for CBRE, Google, and Taara from preconstruction to closeout.

The same partner owns JG Academy, where I had been running business development since 2021. When the Tracy gym's community broke apart, I took ownership, coached kids and adults as a blue belt, cleaned up a membership system with six months of overdue fees, and more than doubled the student base in eight months while cutting turnover in half. Then we opened the headquarters in French Camp, where I still coach most mornings.

Owning a business is a completely different education from selling for one. Payroll, taxes, memberships, marketing, and the follow-up that never ends all land on you. So in 2026 I built the system that handles it: AI agents that run my back office while I do the part only a person can do. I sell. My agents do the rest.