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Helping leaders grow

For the last 30 years, I’ve worked in various combinations of engineering and product — I love both disciplines, and value both super highly.

I’m currently offering coaching for executives and emerging leaders.

I’ve managed engineering teams ranging in size from 2 to 500; I’ve led product at startups desperately trying to find traction; I’ve worked as a principal engineer building and operating complex systems.

Most recently, I spent five extremely rewarding years as CTO at Ellevation Education. Before that, I led the Supply Chain Engineering teams at Wayfair, building systems to support a sprawling set of logistics domains that included inventory planning, container shipping, warehousing and final mile fulfillment.

Further back I was an early employee at HubSpot, where I learned an enormous amount how to build, operate and scale complex systems, while also getting to observe first-hand a world-class marketing and sales team. I have also worked at a variety of startups that failed, in a variety of interesting and informative ways.

I am deeply fascinated by the challenges of getting groups of humans to work together to solve big, complex, meaningful problems.

I hold a BS in Computer Science from Yale University.

I live in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in the city of Boston.