For more than 30 years I have been starting, growing, running and advising businesses and their owners. My expertise includes business management, finance, and law in industries spanning manufacturing, technology, service, real estate and travel. Building successful enterprises that realize their potential is my sport.I am a native Houstonian, who spent a quarter of a century in the Pacific Northwest attending law school (J.D., magna cum laude), practicing law, building businesses and helping owners realize their dreams and goals. I returned to Houston in 2011 to reconnect with family and continue my work guiding owners of private companies and other high net worth individuals and families.During my career I have run more than half a dozen companies employing more than 500 people, practiced law, restructured more than half a billion dollars in debt, built companies from scratch, saved companies from the brink of disaster, changed lives and repaired fractured relationships, motivated people to give more of themselves than they believed they had inside, developed strategic and operational plans and the budgets necessary to cause them to come to fruition, bought businesses, sold businesses, closed businesses, hired, fired and counseled employees.I have evaluated investments including active operating businesses, and pure investments from stocks to bonds to real estate to commodities to derivatives to currencies.I have gained the admiration, respect and loyalty of those that have worked for me and those that have worked with me. I have saved my clients tens of millions of dollars and made them multiples of that by developing and implementing creative solutions to challenging, sometimes seemingly impossible, problems. My passion is my family which includes my beautiful wife and six wonderful children.