25 years in the US Army, intelligence community, and Department of Defense. Now a business owner, advisory board member, and nonprofit board leader in St. Louis. Same discipline, different systems.
Get put into a complex, high-stakes system — often stuck, always changing. Bridge the people who don't talk to each other. Turn the plan into motion. Develop the leaders. Leave it running better than I found it. I've run that play inside a spy agency, a growing engineering firm, a nonprofit in leadership transition, and a business I built from zero.
Global office of 180+ people and a $100M budget. Enterprise transformations moving decades of legacy systems to the cloud. Four years in Afghanistan negotiating partnerships in an active combat zone. Seven years teaching leadership at NGA's college.
Left a senior government career in 2024 to build Ignite Performance & Health from zero — a medically directed strength, nutrition, and hormone clinic in Chesterfield, Missouri. Sales, operations, team, partnerships: end to end.
Advisory board member at CDG Engineers. Executive board member at CHADS Coalition for Mental Health — co-led the CEO succession when the founders retired. Board member at the Special Operations Charity Network.
"Vision without execution is just hallucination."THE OPERATING THESIS
I take on a limited number of advisory and board engagements — businesses in growth or transition, and nonprofit boards where I can move the mission. If that sounds like your organization, let's talk.