Serial Founder & Co-Founder with Startups in FinTech, GovTech and Defense, MedTech, Social Services, NFC Technology, and Engineering & Construction. Began my career in Institutional Finance working on both the Buy and Sell Sides in the mid-to-late 2000s before transitioning into work on early-stage companies.Brief Summary of my Startup experience below:Continest USA - CEO & Co-Founder - Foldable, Collapsible Container/Modular Housing company that launched in the USA (2022) after several successful years in the EU with our primary manufacturing plants in Hungary.RAIN Technologies - COO- A Defense-related MedTech solution for Tier 1 Operations personnel utilizing biometric warfighter data shared across TAK/ATAK networks to expedite CASEVAC responses.Socialwyze - Founding Member - A platform that connects people experiencing homelessness to immediate income opportunities to provide public benefit work. Mark Cuban is our lead investor and we partnered with Trammel Crow and EarthX to conduct over 450 work projects in Texas and Hawaii helping hundreds of people along the way.Meetyl - Founding Member, Director of Strategy & Product Developoment - A FinTech platform matching Institutional Investors and publicly traded companies to provide disintermediated Corporate Access. Was successfully acquired in 2014.VoterEngage - Founder & CEO - A non-partisan platform matching candidates and voters that had tens of thousands of voters across all 50 states utilize the platform for the 2018 Midterm Elections. Momento - Founding Member - An NFC Technology driven file sharing hardware & software application.***2022 Grand Prize Winner of Wharton's Pitch Competition***On the personal front, I manage the Carlsbad, CA-based band, Signal for Pilot (SDMA 2x Award Nominees), managed living legend Tavana in Hawaii for 4+ years, served in public office on Oahu for two terms, and am the Founder of Hawaii Ocean Ambassadors, a beach cleanup and ocean conservation organization that has conducted hundreds of beach cleanups over 8 years and successfully advocated for ocean-saving legislation in the State of Hawaii. I graduated from University of Maryland, College Park with a BS in Finance ('05), where I also wrestled Division I.