He is currently focused on helping individuals, entrepreneurs, incubators, charities, & companies to help realize their fullest potential. In 2014, he founded Crown Canyon Capital, which invests in underserved opportunities & implements innovative strategies to drive sustainable results (like www.crowncanyon.com). He also is a General Partner and Co-Founder of the Sonoran Founders Fund, an early stage VC firm, focused on underrepresented founders with paths to outsized returns. He has founded several startups, and is currently building a stealth startup in the legal tech space. Prior to this, he was a business executive with Fortune 1,000 public companies, including PetSmart & RSC Equipment Rentals, as well as being a CEO & Director of an emerging growth private company. He focuses on assembling great teams & facilitating profitable growth strategies, which drives a strong culture of placing safety first, sustainability & customer service. He has a proven track record of transforming companies & enhancing shareholder value, culminating with IPOs & acquisitions. As CEO, he steered a successful turnaround of ECM Energy Services, a company focused in the U.S. shale play offering equipment rental & logistic services. This ultimately led to being on the door step of pricing an IPO, before the #2 largest player in the industry, Sunbelt Rentals acquired ECM’s equipment rental division in 2014 at a substantial premium. Previously, he invested in private equity owned RSC Equipment Rental & was SVP–General Counsel. He then brought RSC public (NYSE:RRR) in 2007 with a $458M IPO & ultimately helped to sell RSC in 2012 for over $4.2B to United Rentals, the #1 largest player in the industry. In addition to serving in a legal capacity, he had P&L responsibility over other functional areas, such as safety, environmental, risk, real estate/construction & HR. He also created and led the industry pioneering corporate social responsibility efforts. He is proudly focused on philanthropic endeavors to make an impact on: access to justice, sustainability, and helping to welcome refugees. In addition, he speaks on various topics including: leadership, startups, venture capital, sustainability, refugees, ethics & driving results, such as delivering the midday address on Sustainability Leadership at the United Nations Global Compact at the U.S. Mission to the UN.