About Me
I run operations and I track the P&L. Those two things are not separate in my head and they have not been for twenty years. I find where an operation is leaving money behind and build what needs to change to close that gap. The clearest recent example was a healthcare services company I acquired and operated. In twelve months we moved margins from 18% to 24%, grew revenue 22%, and scaled the team 40%. We closed a 3.5x exit. The tools were AI-powered sales analytics, digital workflow replacement for manual back-office systems, and a management rebuild built around real accountability.
Prior to this as an Associate Partner at IBM Global Business Services, I grew a $30M technology delivery practice 80% over four years by repositioning the business from packaged CRM delivery to custom SaaS solutions and rebuilding the teams front to back.
Today I run Redwood Growth LLC, a lower mid-market acquisition platform. The model is straightforward. Find businesses with P&L potential their current operations have not captured, operate with discipline, and exit at a multiple that reflects the actual value built.
I hold an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas and Masters degree in Computer Science. That combination helps me stay in tune with both the business and the technology portions of a company
Career Accomplishments
- Founder of an independent sponsor firm that is a lower mid-market private equity type business acquisition entity
- Accomplished organic product based and inorganic acquisition based growth at a major logistics and fulfillment firm
- Founder of a tech startup
- Mentor at a B2B startup accelerator in San Francisco
- Managed global remote teams of 80+ team members and successfully grew a services based P&L
Hobbies
Poker, volleyball, hiking/outdoors, travel (South Africa, Colombia, Germany, Czech Republic, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, India, Sweden, Denmark … so far)
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Blog Posts
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