About
I've spent 20+ years building technology — the systems themselves and the businesses around them. Not one or the other. Both.
My career started where all good tech careers start: in the server room. As a sysadmin at the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind, then managing operations at Pearson (Fortune 500), I learned that infrastructure is invisible until it breaks — and that the best systems are the ones nobody thinks about.
That foundation led me to GoDaddy in 2003, where I spent 11 years across five roles. I started as a software development manager, where I architected the DNS system that would eventually manage 30% of all domains on the internet and designed the company's core SOA architecture. Then I did something unusual — I jumped from engineering to business development, creating GoDaddy's BD function from scratch.
That move turned out to define my career. I negotiated Facebook's first major partnership (creating FB.ME and WP.ME), managed 20+ partnerships worth hundreds of millions in revenue, and eventually became the CEO's strategy advisor through the IPO era. I ran a $300M P&L, led 6 acquisitions deploying capital from KKR and Silver Lake, and presented business cases directly to the board. Along the way, I was granted 9 US patents in DNS, SSL, and domain technology.
After VP roles at Namecheap (registry partnerships) and Envato (M&A), and an entrepreneurial detour growing Sniff & Barkens to 3M+ social followers, I joined Acronis in 2020. At this $4B cybersecurity company, I've held three concurrent VP titles — spanning business development, cyber platform strategy, and strategic alliances across a 60,000-partner global ecosystem.
Now I'm channeling all of that into AI. I build multi-agent coordination systems, AI-powered lead generation platforms, and cross-platform automation tools. Not as theory or PowerPoint — as working production systems that I code myself.
The throughline across my career is this: I build at every layer of the stack. From DNS infrastructure to strategic alliances, from Facebook partnerships to AI agent systems. The technology changes; the instinct to build doesn't.
If you're working at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, and enterprise — I'd like to hear about it.