Bio
Thirteen years of running finance, in six very different businesses.
Creator economy, experiential technology, consumer hardware, family-office operations, institutional asset management and home services. The through-line is not an industry. It is being the person responsible for the number when it mattered — and coming out of all of it convinced that an owner should never be the last to know what that number says.
The record
May 2025 — present
COO / CFO
Handld Home
Launched a tech-enabled home-services platform from concept. Built the operating systems — pricing, customer intake, scheduling, billing, contractor management — on Stripe, Twilio and custom Next.js applications. Recurring maintenance runs on automated workflows and agents doing work that would otherwise need office staff.
Nov 2023 — Apr 2025
CFO
Martin Management Group
A family office: 17 auto dealerships, a $150M real estate portfolio, an airport, 725 employees across 19 locations in 6 states, $650M in annual revenue. Refinanced $28M of commercial debt with two new lenders, consolidated banking from nine institutions to one and lifted yield 45 basis points, and rebuilt multi-state payroll compliance after an audit. Nineteen direct reports across accounting, finance, HR, payroll and legal.
Apr 2022 — Nov 2023
CFO
Nebula
The largest creator-economy company in the world — 103 employees serving 212 creators across agency, streaming, merchandise, syndication and studio businesses, at $37M in annual revenue. Grew revenue 60% in year one, instituted OKRs across five business units, evaluated several acquisitions, and absorbed the loss of a sponsor representing 41% of sponsor revenue while still growing cash 6% year over year.
Apr 2016 — Mar 2022
COO / CFO
VT Pro Design
An experiential technology firm working for Google, Nike and Netflix. Revenue from $3M to $55M, EBITDA margin from −4% to 17%, headcount from 8 to 61. Sourced $4.5M of commercial debt to acquire and renovate three properties for office space. Acquired by BUCK Design in 2022.
Apr 2014 — Apr 2016
President & CFO
ZBoard
An electric skateboard company with patented modular technology. Raised $500K in equity as a Tech Coast Angels finalist, generated $912K of pre-orders on Indiegogo for the second-generation product, and helped pass California Assembly Bill 604, which legalised electric skateboards in the state.
Sep 2010 — Apr 2014
Equities Analyst
Trust Company of the West
Co-founded the TCW Global Real Estate Fund (TGRYX), which raised $2.2B of assets in its first twelve months. Pitched stock recommendations to seven portfolio managers running $32B, resulting in six investments totalling $330M, and ran macroeconomic research alongside the firm’s CIO for media appearances and investor presentations.
2010 — 2015
MBA, UCLA Anderson · BS Finance, USC
Education
MBA at UCLA Anderson with an emphasis in finance and operations. BS in Business Administration and Finance at USC, recognised as one of the university’s top forty student leaders and selected for President Steven Sample and Dr. Warren Bennis’s course on leadership and communication.
The software came out of the job rather than the other way round. Every finance function above ran into a report that did not exist, and at some point building it became faster than explaining why it was missing.
Bring a real question.
You will get a straight answer whether or not we end up working together.