I've been the first hireand the trusted partner to the world's biggest brands.Real relationships are at the core of both.

The throughline of my career has been the same from day one: figure out what a client actually needs, then go build the path to get them there. I don't run pitch cycles — I run relationships. The deals I'm proudest of weren't won on the first call; they were earned over months of being the person who showed up, asked better questions, and stayed in it long after the contract was signed.

My first job out of college was at Crispin Porter + Bogusky — AdAge's Agency of the Decade — where I helped build the agency's first proactive new-business function and contributed to a $100M+ pitch-win streak. I worked an unholy number of all-nighters to keep the best creative going out the door, and yes, I also hand-modeled internationally for Best Buy and Burger King. Genuinely.

From there I went smaller and scrappier. As the first hire at Cooke + Wax, an indie NYC ad agency, I helped grow the company more than 300% in one year past $2M (and assembled a heroic number of IKEA chairs along the way). I then advised Lunarpad, a bootstrapped no-code mobile platform, on bringing the product to market — onboarding top-tier creative agencies as beta partners and leading BD on mobile dev contracts. One of those was Cord, a voice messaging app with 1M+ users that Spotify acquired in 2016.

Then enterprise: Oracle (JPMorgan Chase, PepsiCo, J&J, Amazon, Merck), Fastly (selling to engineers who don't care about your slides), and Zeta Global — where I led GTM for the first agentic AI email acquisition product to hit the market, with brands like Vail Resorts, Groupon, JCPenney, Stitch Fix, and JSX. Most recently, VP of Sales at FancyAI, helping brands compete in the answer layer with implementation-ready GEO outputs instead of dashboards that just tell you you're losing.

Startup of one to Fortune 500. Scrappy NYC walkup to enterprise war room. The constant: be the person clients want in the room when something hard needs solving.

The other half of how I work: I build. I write Claude Code commands to automate the boring parts of selling. I wire up Playwright agents that audit how prospects show up in LLMs. I read the docs. I think the best sellers in the next decade are the ones who actually understand what they're selling — and the only way to do that is to put your hands on it alongside your clients.