Driven fintech entrepreneur focused on social innovation, user engagement/ satisfaction, and creating client value. 10+ years of professional experience in retail and commercial financial services in business development, relationship management, consulting, and strategic planning roles. These experiences have allowed me to develop, hone, and enhance skills in consultative selling strategies, public speaking, rapid relationship building, and interpersonal skills.I remain as interested as ever in broadening my knowledge base and surrounding myself with engaging, informative, and motivated team members within an awesome company culture.Currently I am obsessed with closing my knowledge gap in software engineering. I am a self-taught front-end dev with a growing understanding of HTML, CSS, Java, and PHP. I hope to be dangerous shortly. Additionally, I remain interested in disrupting the exclusive practice of Angel Investing by breaking down existing barriers of entry and making this historically wealth creating/ lucrative investing practice more inclusive. This initiative led to a precedent setting achievement in November 2013 as SparkMarket became the 1st crowdfunding platform to successful host an equity raise for a private company that was open to both accredited and non-accredited investors. Specialties: project management, new business development, public speaking, relationship management, social media strategy, consulting & business strategy, product development, client interaction/ communication.