The Communications Academy was created to work with people who need help communicating important messages. We help them uncover improved communication strategies. Currently, we work with junior golfers and their parents to navigate the college golf recruiting process. We strive to teach confidence in communications.

Fenwick High School is the only Dominican high school in the country that is led by Dominican Friars -- priests and brothers of the Order of Preachers. My responsibilities were to assist with marketing and communications, alumni relations, events and fundraising. In my time at Fenwick, I led a grant writing effort focused on both building improvements and health improvement (air quality) that was ultimately successful in securing $3.6MM for the school. Additionally, I helped to successfully raise over $100,000 for a special project related to the aquatics program.

Tennis Resorts LLC was involved in a unique contract with Disney as the exclusive operator and licensee of the Disney ESPN Wide World of Sports tennis complex consisting of 10 Har-Tru clay courts including a 1,000-seat center court stadium. We offered a variety of tennis vacation packages to tennis enthusiasts around the world to include one of a kind tennis experiences along with accommodations at the finest Disney resorts/hotels and memorable theme park experiences at Disney World. My responsibilities were to manage all finance and banking relationships, coordinate accounting and marketing the offerings to prospective clients and groups. I was also involved in raising capital (over $750k), sponsorships, and working with joint venture partners.

Goldstein Financial Group, LLC (GFG) is one of the country’s leading life insurance advisory firms serving the ultra-affluent market as a member of the M Financial Group. They offer proprietary, institutionally priced insurance products that are uniquely managed by the insurance carriers and M Financial for the benefit of the policy owners. As one of the firm’s leaders I was responsible for marketing products and services to high net-worth advisors, including attorneys, investment managers, and family office professionals. My primary role was to increase the network of advisors and educate them on the value and strength of their services.

Responsible for attracting and developing new business for institutional custody clients of Northern Trust from a period of 1994-2000, specific to corporate investment product. In 2000 I transitioned to sales & marketing of personal investment and trust services to affluent marketplace around the United States and then specifically to north shore Chicago.

While at American Nurseryman Publishing, my responsibilities involved growing the advertising sales revenue for the eastern half of the United States. American Nurseryman is the leading publication serving the horticultural industry for over 100 years.