I’m ramping up my activity in the PNW as an active angel investor and advisor to early-stage companies.

In the spirit of being a founder-friendly investor and advisor, below are some helpful founder resources:

  • Grubstakes – 20+ individual investors in Seattle that fund and mentor startups in the Pacific Northwest.
  • Seattle Angel – Seattle Angel is a not for profit organization, focused on educating angel investors, entrepreneurs, and prospective team members about the ins and outs of raising startup capital, scaling business operations, and related legal and financial issues.
  • UW Comotion – CoMotion® is UW’s collaborative innovation hub dedicated to expanding the economic and societal impact of the UW community and beyond.
  • WeWork Labs – global community of early-stage startups with membership benefits including workspace, mentorship and education.

I’ve lived in Seattle for a few years after being born in Portland, OR, growing up in Atlanta and living a bit all over – Dallas, Chicago, NYC, and Austin. My background includes co-founding a sports tech start-up (LeagueCast, 2013 - 2015), serving as VP of Product at a direct-to-consumer live sports company (FloSports, 2016 - 2017) and now as a product manager of a greenfield reporting and analytics solution at Amazon (2017 - present).

In the start-up realm, my experience includes working for companies at the sweat equity, bootstrapping, friends and family and Series B and C stages, and I also partially self-funded LeagueCast, a start-up I co-founded in 2013 and shelved in 2015.

Experience | (Some) Industries of Interest:

  • Investment banking at Rothschild and Blackstone in NYC; member of the deal team which advised the Los Angeles Dodgers’ former owner and management on the $2.3 billion sale of the team, stadium, media rights and real estate to Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Partners.
  • 6+ years Product Management experience – two sports tech companies in Austin, TX, and Amazon in Seattle.
  • Co-founder of sports tech company from 2013 - 2015; shelved idea in 2015 – raised Friends & Family, beta product in market from ‘14 - ‘15.
  • Driving a greenfield reporting and analytics solution; includes one- and three-year product roadmap, pricing and business model, and ongoing go-market-strategy.
  • Industries:
    • Consumer internet.
    • Enterprise software.
    • Fintech.
    • Sports tech.
    • Experience with big data, analytics, data warehouse, real time data, and ML.
  • Advisory experience can include data strategy, product strategy, GTM, financial forecasting, product/market fit.