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I build, operate, and lead great companies. I’ve been doing it for 30 years.
I’m an Electrical Engineer and a Cornell MBA. I’ve founded three companies and joined three others as an early employee. I’ve been a VC. I’ve raised venture and non-dilutive funding across multiple startups. Hardware product lifecycles, pitch development, FP&A, compliance, and team building are specialties. More than fifteen years of C-Level experience, including managing Boards of Directors.
I started SeriesOps because too many early-stage startups fail for operational reasons, not technical ones. The Tech Stack grows ad hoc, processes are duct-taped together, and the weight of it all falls on the founder and technical team — pulling them away from what needs to be their singular focus: product, customers, and fundraising. My job is to make the rest of the company run like a finely tuned, well-oiled machine, so you can allocate your scarcest resource — your time — to the work that only you can do.
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Operator Always.
I'm an engineer — it's how I think. I don't just manage operations, I design them. Systems, processes, tech stacks — I approach every operational challenge the way I'd approach a circuit design: what are the inputs, what are the outputs, simplicity is best; prototype, test, document, monitor. And by the way, my electrical engineering background makes me especially effective with hardware startups navigating the full product lifecycle.
I'm the CEO's second-in-command. The person who makes sure the trains run on time while the CEO focuses on vision, product, and fundraising. In practice that means I wear a lot of hats — part-time GC, CFO & Controller, overseeing Manufacturing, Fulfillment & Customer Support, responsible for FP&A. At Alcatraz AI, I owned Finance, Legal, Compliance, Engineering, Manufacturing, Customer Support, Field Operations, and the PMO. That's the job. I do all of it.
I believe companies should set aggressive, measurable, time-bound objectives — one or two overarching goals, perhaps three to five total at the corporate level. Then measure relentlessly. I conceive the essential metrics, automate their measurement, build the dashboards, and make sure everyone has access — including the Board. Celebrate the wins. Debug the misses with intellectual honesty. No vanity metrics, no hiding from bad numbers.
I have a passion for recruiting teams and establishing culture. I believe core values, mission, and vision should be formulated as a team — not handed down. High-performing teams trust each other, take intelligent risks, and hold themselves accountable. I believe no hire is better than a bad hire. And I insist that when an individual or team commits to a plan, they must deliver — because in a startup, everyone's work is interlinked, runway is finite, and the margin for error is small.
Why "SeriesOps"?
The name comes from where I live — in the space between funding rounds. Pre-seed to seed. Seed to Series A. Series A to Series B. Each stage brings a different set of operational challenges, and the playbook that got you here won't get you there.
"Series" is about progression — building the operational foundation at each stage so you're ready for what's next. "Ops" is what I do. The name is the mission: the right operations to get your startup to the next value inflection point.
Seed → Series A
Series A → Beyond
The challenges change at every stage. The need for operational excellence doesn't.
Engineer + MBA.
At Alcatraz AI, I owned Finance, Legal, Compliance, Engineering, Manufacturing, Customer Support, Field Operations, and the PMO. That was the job. I did all of it.
Canada Scholar. Class President. The engineering foundation that informs everything — systems that are designed before they're implemented, simple, appropriate to the stage and scale, robust and reliable.
Dual degree from two of North America's top business schools. Focus on strategy, marketing, and sustainable development. I felt that if I was going to build and lead great companies then I should learn the language of business in a formal and structured manner.
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No pitch. Just an honest conversation about where you are and how I can help.