At The Welcome Company, our mission is simple: we bring together newcomers and local businesses, professionals, and community groups in the Triangle area. We do this by giving new residents a warm, in-person welcome, helping them find the services they need, and creating lasting connections that keep them coming back.

TapSnap ... The world’s best photo booth rentals right here in The Triangle. Be the company everyone is talking about. Give conference guests an unforgettable experience. Treat your employees to the celebration they deserve. A custom TapSnap experience will be the most memorable part of your event and while guests are snapping and sharing photos, you can gather valuable marketing data with custom surveys, or generate new leads for your business with our data capture feature. Always fun and interactive, with social media integration and amazing image quality. Corporate and social events. Amazing hosts. Happy people. Add some pizzazz to your next event.

The Triangle Tweener Fund is a Rolling Fund (powered by AngelList) affiliated with the Triangle Tweener List. The Tweener Fund has created via investment an index of early stage, private company investments within the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill area. More at: https://tweenerfund.com/

Building a legacy for my family and those of sellers through acquiring and operating small businesses in North Carolina. First acquisition, TapSnap franchise. Next, launched The Welcome Company.

Plum is a venture-backed software platform that simplifies co-ownership for buyers and sellers. Join or form a group to leverage the power of co-ownership to buy your dream vacation home. As a seller, fractionalize to gain liquidity and maintain some ownership/usage of your vacation home. For real estate agents, Plum provides you co-ownership content and talk tracks to help you create engagement. We also have the PlumMarketplace for your vacation home listings to market them to groups looking to buy. Agents that become PlumCertified also are eligible for “real estate agent ready” referrals of buyers and sellers. We love it when buyers, sellers and agents all say, “Plum has thought of everything!”

Cutting edge SaaS platform performing cross-lingual, conceptual, and persistent search of publicly available data at massive scale. Early investor and operator that drove explosive growth and successful exit at 6x to PE. Led diverse, geographically dispersed teams of ~75 across Sales and Marketing, Customer Experience, 24-hour Watch Floor, and Sales Ops. • Ran lean, cost-effective operations that resulted in Revenue/Employee at exit 2x industry SaaS average.• Presented software demos to a wide range of prospects based on an integral understanding of the use of text analytics across range of use cases: national security, public safety, law enforcement, executive protection, event security, disaster assistance, breaking news, brand reputation, and more. Customersin public domain included FBI, DHS, SOCOM, USAF, Secret Service, State Department, and several Fortune 100.• Closed numerous multimillion-dollar, multi-year enterprise engagements with deal sizes up to $6M.• Led the team to achieve 100%+ net customer retention through upselling and cross-selling along with award-winning user training and onboarding, exemplary support, and continual product enhancements.• Navigated complex issues involving privacy, national security, data use rights, T&Cs among others to close deals with average deal size in excess of $250k per year.• Partnered with GC and CFO to build sales platform and processes for complex subscription SaaS model across multiple products.• Contributed to high-level product design and attendant go-to-market concepts.• Spearheaded a hiring push that grew company through various phases from 10 people to ~150; due to rapid growth, oversaw multiple moves involving complex lease negotiations, as well as office space build out, including a 24-hour watch floor monitoring open-source threats.• Led efforts to support the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children through in-kind donations of software and services.

MVP II is an equity investor in early-stage technology and other start-up companies that provide high potential for rapid growth and significant economic returns. Target raise of $25M. Making 40-50 investments. The fund quickly established itself as one of the most active early stage investors in the DC area, and as such, had first look at some of the regions best deals.• Served on Investment Committee reviewing potential investments including management team, financials, market opportunity and deal structure• Raised funds from personal network, local investors, and executives

Charity golf is broken. Most events are the same format, take too long and many aren’t successful financially. Albatross brought a unique format to charity golf by creating a fun, networking centric “skills”-based event structure.

Owned and managed office condominium and invested in residential real estate in Northern Virginia.

Founded and boot strapped government contractor from 1 one person start-up to #312 to on the “Inc. 500” list of fastest growing privately held companies in the U.S. Built firm into market leader high volume workflow management and business support outsourcing for civilian agencies. Sold business in 2012.• At one point, firm performed services on every FHA loan originated in U.S. Projects included issuing mortgage insurance, loan quality control, appraisal quality control on REO, auditing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac affordable housing data, and marketing foreclosures• At the height of the refinance boom in 2003, the firm was insuring over $750 million ($1.2B in today's dollars) in mortgages weekly. Built extensive expertise in high volume workflow management with demanding performance timelines and quality requirements• As the firm grew, responsibilities grew from “jack-of-all-trades” to a focus on leadership, vision, corporate culture, strategic and financial planning, and business development• Provided leadership to diverse team of geographically disbursed senior staff on high visibility contracts• Effectively translated vision and culture into strategic, operational and financial plans and overcame numerous obstacles including government shutdowns, legislative changes, customer reorganizations, dramatic market changes, and others.• Led efforts to design, build and deploy numerous IT systems for both internal and external customers• Led business development efforts including relationship building, obtaining a GSA schedule, opportunity identification, go/no go decisions, winning theme development, writing, editing, delivering oral presentations and pricing.

Loudoun Volunteer Caregivers (LVC), a Faith in Action program, is a non-profit coalition of more than 200 volunteers from Loudoun County who help frail elderly and disabled adults maintain independent living. LVC provides a wide range of support services including transportation to medical appointments, grocery shopping, meal preparation, household chores, special outings and visits to adult care facilities with certified pet therapy teams. More at lvcaregivers.org

Leveraged expert staff and infrastructure at Horizon Consulting to launch a residential, retail mortgage brokerage firm licensed in Virginia.

Conceived, built, and launched platform to facilitate vendor registration nationwide with state and local, municipal, higher education, and other agencies all from a single submission.

A residential real estate asset management and disposition firm. As employee No. 4, launched a single-family (1- 4 unit) asset management and disposition division to compliment start-up firms apartment building focus. • Built division into multi-million dollar operation that expanded from transactional REO disposition into government loan operations management• Served as Project Manager for two demonstration sites of HUD’s Pre-foreclosure Sale Demonstration Program, for Post-Endorsement Technical Review contracts with several HUD Field Offices and for Insurance Endorsement Processing contracts with two HUD Field Offices• Served as Project Manager for Single-family Asset Management and Disposition Agreement (SAMDA) “Bucket” contract for Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC)• Developed themes, wrote, and edited majority of winning proposals submitted by firm

A spin-out of a large regional residential brokerage firm's relocation group, the company managed and disposed of over $40 million (nearly $100M in todays dollars) in distressed 1-4 family REO for some of the nations largest lenders. • Managed day-to-day operations of firm to include P&L responsibility• Developed marketing plans for entire subdivisions and individual properties• Conducted property inspections• Negotiated and approved sales within client-established parameters• Used emerging database technology to obtain greater efficiencies, better results, and dramatically increased profitability