Rondo Ventures invests in early-stage companies providing capital for growth and expertise in helping entrepreneurs scale their businesses.

Therma-HEXX manufactures ThermaPANEL, a product designed to efficiently heat and cool outdoor and indoor spaces.

Canpango is a global Salesforce.com and marketing automation partner. We provide technology implementation, custom development, and business process consulting services in addition to developing our own technology products to bring to market. In August, 2018 Canpango was sold to Scan Source (NASDQ: SCSC).

Focused on enjoying life, playing guitar, fishing, hiking, snowboarding, traveling, drinking an occasional beer (okay, maybe more than occasional), meditating (not really but it sounds good), tried yoga once (went back to beer drinking), working hard not to irritate my wife too much (failing miserably), planning my next venture.

StreetLinks was a national residential appraisal management company. I purchased Streetlinks as a subsidiary of Novation Companies and grew it over the next several years before selling it to Assurant Insurance Company in 2014.

Corvisa is a telecommunications and cloud software company bringing to market the only true product plus platform as a service offering. We combine powerful contact center software, business phone systems, connectivity service and our Summit development platform. Corvisa was a wholly owned subsidiary of Novation Companies.

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive OfficerI co-founded NovaStar Financial, Inc. (now Novation) in 1996 through a private capital raise of $50 million. I led this mortgage loan origination and securitization company from startup to a publicly traded company with 5,000 employees and a market value of more than $1.7 billion. I led the company through the credit crisis of 2007 during which NovaStar was forced to shut down sub-prime mortgage loan operations and lay off all but a small number of employees. I then led the effort to pay back all secured bank lenders and other outstanding obligations, with the goal of allowing the company to rebuild. Novation owned and operated Corvisa, a cloud-based contact center technology company and StreetLinks Lender Services, a national appraisal management company. Novation acquired StreetLinks in 2008 for a total investment of $3 million and sold the company in 2015 for a total return in excess of $100 million.I was inducted into the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Hall of Fame. I earned my Bachelor of Science in Finance from Old Dominion University.

Saxon Mortgage was a leading national lender of non-conforming mortgages. Founded and led the growth of Saxon Mortgage until the sale of the company in May, 1996.