I am easily bored, and over the years, have 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.
My uninspiring career started in television in the early 1990s. I quickly realized it was not for me and ultimately stumbled into a role in public relations, working my way up the ladder 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 creative agency called Elasticity—a highly creative, vertically integrated agency that aims to more effectively leverage the ever-evolving information landscape.
Throughout my career, I’ve had the honor of working in partnership 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.
When not working in marketing, I front the band Atomic Junkshot, host the largely-ignored 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.
More than anything, I am a husband and father.
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