Bio

PLEASE DO NOT INVITE ME TO LINK if we don't know each other. I won't even respond... Linking only to people I know keeps my Links meaningful. Thanks. Highly effective operating executive and strategist. I've co-founded three firms. The current (third) one, ezCater, is a three-sided marketplace with very high satisfaction and retention stats on all sides, very high employee satisfaction, and a string of very fast growth years starting in 2012, interrupted by COVID, and getting back to great growth in late 2020 and beyond. My first co-founder scenario was a nice success, and sold for 14X. My second company hit a wall, but we managed to build a well-oiled machine that one-third of the target audience was using before we died for lack of funding. Earlier in my career, I revamped one troubled company, vaulting it to #1 in its market (a position it still holds many years later), and brought another to profitability for the first time in four years. I've also helped a half-dozen other firms devise strategy, raise funding, and strengthen operations. Specialties: Particular strengths in leveraging practical technology to frugally build and run businesses, and creating powerful cultures wherein the employees are happy and resilient enough to operate without me.