Dad. Husband. Dog lover. Marketer. Musician. Podcast host. Facial hair leader. Bar owner. Conference runner. Journalist. Stuff doer. 

I am easily bored. Over the years, I've done a host of things including a 30-year-career in marketing and public relations, playing music in a band, leading a mustache revolution, hosting a podcast, running a bar, founding a short-lived innovation conference, writing for magazines and blogs and more. 

BRAND REPUTATION

I started in television in the early 1990s, quickly realizing it was not for me. I stumbled into a role in public relations and worked my way through agencies such as FleishmanHillard and two of the nation’s largest energy companies. But I was dissatisfied with the cultures I was working in, what I was doing and the expectations for how to do it—predicated on what I found to be archaic, ineffective methodologies. I had a different vision for building and managing the reputation of brands and organizations steeped in big, bold, creative ideas and using technology to reach audiences and deliver messages. In 2009, with two friends I co-founded an award-winning marketing  agency called Elasticity—a highly creative, vertically-integrated firm that aims to more effectively leverage the ever-evolving information landscape. Throughout my career, I’ve had the honor of working with some great people and a range of tremendous organizations like MasterCard, UPS, AT&T, CapitalOne and Fireball Whisky; state and regional governments, professional sports franchises and leagues, economic development authorities, well-funded startups and large non-profits. 

MY LIFE

I was born in Virginia and ultimately moved west with my wife and our two children. When not working, I front the band Atomic Junkshot, host the Load Out music podcast, co-wrote a terrible book (in which I cursed too much), write an ongoing drizzle of drivel for BroBible, am a Kentucky Colonel, a passionate fan of the Chicago Cubs (so you know that winning is not of great importance to me), and have failed miserably at many, many other things.