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I can help educate SCORE clients about the business world and provide them with tools to help them deal with the challenges and uncertainties they face when starting a new business or growing their current business.

I have over 25 years of experience in the medical device industry, including bootstrapping a protein bar company and starting a successful franchise; my expertise offers invaluable guidance to start-up, small, medium, and large-scale businesses. I specialize in strategic planning, marketing, market expansion, and product innovation. I'm adept at steering businesses through growth and industry challenges.

I can help you determine what type of business will work for you, and then help you look at all the requirements that need to be taken care of to start and grow your business.

Fear is the number one thing that holds us back from success and keeps the majority of the working population chained to a job they don’t love. This is what sets entrepreneurs apart. While everyone has fears, it is how you deal with your fear that makes a difference.

As a small business owner, it can be difficult to determine the true potential of an idea when you’re examining its pros and cons within the echo chamber of your own mind.

Generally, in in almost every aspect of planning, starting, managing and growing a business. Limited specific area or industry expertise, but general knowledge of almost every area from start-up to public company management. Most of career as founder and/or CEO

Having grown up working in a family owned small business I have a passion for seeing entrepreneurs succeed. Although I had a 46 year career in Corporate America and the experience of leading multiple large businesses, my wife and I owned a small business for +10 years during this time. With knowledge of tactical and strategic processes across many disciplines I feel I can be a good sounding board for clients seeking ideas and direction for their specific business endeavor.

I'm here to assist you with any tech or operational roadblocks you might run into with your business. Excited to share my experience across a variety of areas, be it Software as a Service, AI, cybersecurity, inventory management and logistics, making your processes more efficient, or if you're stepping into starting or purchasing your very first business and need to put together your first business plan for investors. Plus, if you just want to bounce some business ideas around, I'm all ears!

I have extensive experience in finance, operations and management. As a 28 year business owner, I also bring expertise in customer relationships and in providing high levels of customer service.