Inventor of The Mug With A Hoop! and Chief Creator of MAX’IS Creations, a family-run sports mug business that I started at 8 years old.• Featured small business on Amazon with over 200,000 units sold and over $4M in lifetime sales. Mugs also sold at Uncommon Goods, Nordstrom and the Basketball Hall of Fame. Featured regularly in national press such as The Today Show, The Boston Business Journal, The Boston Globe, The New York Post along with outlets such as BuzzFeed and PopSugar.• Intellectual property portfolio includes five design patents and one utility patent (first at age 10) along with numerous trademarks and copyrights. Awarded multiple judgements against U.S. and Chinese companies selling counterfeit products. Multiple international and national licensing deals including Walmart and Typo/CottonOn.

While the way I think can make traditional learning hard, it also allows me to see the world differently. I am proud to share the success of my idea to inspire other nontypical thinkers like me:• Understood.org Ezine Interview (October 2022)• WBZ/CBS News Segment (October 2022)• Amazon This Is Small Business Podcast (June 2022)• Amazon Feature Story & Video (October, 2017)• WBZ/CBS News Segment (April 2016)• Presented Distinguished Advocate Award to Daymond John and Margo John at NCLD Benefit Dinner (March 2016, New York, NY)• National Center for Learning Disabilities Benefit Dinner Keynote (April 2015, New York, NY)• Presentation at WME/New Profit Reimagine Learning Launch with Daymond John & John Legend (Feb 2015, New York, NY)

I am proud to provide mentorship to other young entrepreneurs:• Honorary Kid Chairman, Weston Wayland Children’s Business Fair (October 2022 & 2021, Weston, MA)• Amazon Small Business Spotlight Interview on Amazon Live (Oct 2019, Washington DC)• Fantastic Lives Business Sense Interview (Time for Kids, 2018)• 3D Systems Interview and Feature Story (press release and video, 2015)• Creative Child Magazine Interview (2015)• Entrepreneur Kids Academy Interview (December, 2014)• Youth CITIES Keynote (May 2013, Cambridge, MA)

I am proud to donate a portion of my profits to charities that support people who learn differently. I have donated thousands of mugs and over $90K to charities such as:• Understood.org (including a $25K Teaching Fellow grant)• National Center for Learning Disabilities• Made By Dyslexia• Dyslexic Advantage• Eye2Eye International• Noticeability• Landmark School• Carroll School• Freishtat accessibility teaching program at Brandeis University• In Kind donations (mugs) to The Red Sox Foundation, The Jimmy Fund, The Bruins Foundation, The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, etc.