I was born outside of Boston, Massachusetts, in historic Concord. Home to the Alcotts, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and the ‘shot heard round the world’, the town was literally oozing with history. My route to school past Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and the Old North Bridge served as daily reminders. At an early age, I felt I could hear the stories of those times in vivid ways, cementing a passion for history, for storytelling, and at some point some warmer weather!

My interests led me to Harvard University where I studied US history and African history, diving deep in particular into the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It was a great time. I read, I wrote, then read more, then wrote more. And out of it came a passion for writing and for communicating, as I pieced together events from our American past.

With diploma in hand, I finally said goodbye to the East Coast cold, packed what few belongings I had into my car, and drove off to San Francisco. I still remember it like it was yesterday, the Boston skyline in my rearview mirror as I headed due west, literally into the sunset.

Once in San Francisco, I started out as a media planner in a global advertising agency. While the job at hand wasn’t my calling, I became quickly fascinated by all the technology that surrounded me—the computer in front of me, the mainframe down the hall, and the crazy spaghetti of network that connected all of our offices, albeit at a snail’s pace, around the world.

With my interest piqued, I quickly buried myself in IT trade magazines and read whatever I could lay my hands on. The early ‘90s turned out to be a pretty exciting time as client-server architectures were taking hold, forever democratizing enterprise IT and challenging the rule of the trusty mainframe.

Determined to go deeper into technology, I left the world of advertising for Ziff-Davis (ZD) Labs, testing products and writing stories for Corporate Computing, MacUser, MacWeek, PC Magazine and PC Week. It was amazing! I was up to my eyeballs in technology and on deadline to tease out storylines.

After a few years, I took this experience into the vendor community, gaining product management, technical marketing, product marketing, and corporate marketing skills in Fortune 500 and startup environments. And I found that I thrive in fast-paced technically complex environments where intellectual property is guarded, serving as the basis for market differentiation.

Over the years, I have launched and rebranded companies and products to great success and I’ve built, scaled, and mentored high-performing marketing teams. I bring a unique combination of intellectual curiosity and creativity, and a proven ability to grasp the technical, and simplify the complex in lasting, memorable ways.

Beyond this, I’m a family man. I love hiking, mountain biking, fitness, photography and above all being a husband and father.