Building businesses, running technology at scale, and helping founders navigate what comes next.
Decades across entrepreneurship, enterprise technology, CPG, manufacturing, supply chain, and transformation.
Today: building TekLedger and working selectively with founders and VC-backed companies where growth, technology, and operating complexity meet.
The Thesis
Most advice about scaling comes from people who've watched it happen. Mine comes from doing it — three times as a founder, and once at $2B+ as a CIO.
I write and build from the operator's seat, not the sideline. What's here is what I've actually learned running technology at enterprise scale, building companies from zero, and sitting across the table from the founders and boards who hire people like me.
The Operating Arc
Founder, operator, recognized leader, builder — in that order.
Founder
Three exits
Built and sold technology ventures before "founder" was a career path. Learned capital discipline and outcome accountability the hard way.
Operator
15+ years as CIO & C-suite executive
Ran enterprise technology and operations at Goya Foods — $2B+ in annual revenue, 23 global locations, 6x growth architected.
Recognized
ORBIE Enterprise CIO of the Year
Industry recognition from NewYorkCIO.org (2021), Manufacturing Leadership Council (2023), and Constellation Research BT150 (2024).
Builder
Now building AI-native platforms
Applying two decades of operating discipline to TekLedger and a portfolio of AI-driven products, plus board and advisory work.
Technology Connected to Real Operations
“1 second of delay = 19 hour impact to productivity.”
The kind of number that only shows up when you have actually run the plant floor — not read about it. That discipline is what carried over from operating Goya's $2B+ enterprise to every platform I build today.
Current Work
Active advisory engagements
Ongoing work across AI platforms, healthcare, manufacturing, and enterprise leadership forums. Details are generalized — most of these engagements are confidential.
AI Platform, Series C
Strategic Advisor
Shaping go-to-market strategy for a VC-backed enterprise AI platform — positioning for adoption in regulated industries and aligning product with CIO, CFO, and board priorities.
Global Healthcare Innovation Network
Forum Lead
Convening healthcare leaders, investors, and innovators across Technology and Venture forums, shaping dialogue on AI, secure systems, and venture-backed healthcare infrastructure.
Manufacturing Pricing Intelligence
CTO & Operator
Building a multi-tenant pricing intelligence platform for manufacturers and distributors — combining price-cost-margin engineering with tariff-aware, AI-driven market signals.
Enterprise CIO Councils
Advisor & Moderator
Advising CIO leadership councils and moderating panels on cybersecurity and enterprise AI at industry conferences, shaping how peer executives think about transformation risk.
For Founders
I've been the founder raising the round. Now I help the founders in that seat.
Three exits taught me what breaks a company between rounds — and it's rarely the product. It's the systems, the technical debt nobody flagged, and the leadership gaps that surface under pressure. I write and advise on the operator side of that gap.
- How to hire (and brief) a fractional CIO before you need a full-time one
- What enterprise buyers actually check before they sign — and how to pass
- When to build platform architecture versus when it will just slow you down
- How to talk to your board about technology risk without over- or under-selling it
For VCs & Boards
An operator's read on the technology risk in your portfolio.
Technical diligence
Assessing whether a portfolio company's architecture and team can actually support the growth plan in the deck.
Board-level assessment
Reading a CIO or CTO's roadmap the way an operator reads it — not the way a deck presents it.
Risk before it's a headline
Spotting the technology and leadership risk that shows up in board minutes six months before it shows up in the news.
What I'm Building
TekLedger, and a lab of smaller bets
TekLedger
CTO & Investor
A patent-pending, AI-native CIO–CFO intelligence platform focused on FinOps and technology strategy — bridging CIO and CFO decision-making with benchmark-driven cost and performance insights. Turning technology spend into a strategic advantage.
tekledger.aiThe Lab
AI-Native Guest Experience Platform
An AI-powered platform for destinations and events, enabling self-guided, immersive experiences with affiliate distribution built in.
aha.guideAI-Native Pricing Intelligence Platform
Multi-tenant pricing intelligence for manufacturers and distributors — price-cost-margin engineering combined with AI-powered market signals.
Latest Writing
Field notes from the operator's seat
Why I Am Building the CIO Operating System
Years of building, implementing, and operating enterprise technology led me to a simple question: why is running the business of technology still so fragmented? That question led to the CIO Operating System and to TekLedger.
What Is a CIO Operating System?
CIOs already have systems of record for Finance, IT, Security, Procurement, projects, and contracts. A CIO Operating System addresses a different problem: helping leadership connect those facts around the decisions required to run technology as a business.
AI Is Changing the Economics of Enterprise Technology
AI and consumption-based technology change the relationship between adoption and cost. CIOs need to understand usage continuously, connect consumption to business activity, and forecast technology spending with greater frequency.
Media
On stage and in the room
In the Work
Part of the CIO community, not just adjacent to it
I stay in the rooms where enterprise technology decisions actually get made — advisory councils, technical boards, and the peer networks that shape how CIOs think about risk and transformation.
AT&T
Manufacturing, Transportation & CPG Advisory Council Member
2021–Present
Verizon
Technical Advisory Board Member, MEC
2022–Present
Manhattan Associates
WMS Board of Advisors
2018–Present
Zebra Technologies
Technical Advisory Board Member
2022–Present
Inspire CIO New York City
Vice Chairman
2022–Present
Selected Recognition
Verified track record
15+ years as a CIO and C-suite executive, with enterprise-scale operating experience and founder exits.
15+ Years as CIO & C-Suite Executive
Goya Foods
Led enterprise-wide transformation at scale—modernizing core platforms, operating models, and infrastructure supporting $2B+ in annual revenue across 23 global locations.
SCALE
$2B+
Enterprise Scale
GROWTH
6×
Growth Architected
LOCATIONS
23
Global Locations
Exited Entrepreneur
Multi-Exit Founder
Built, scaled, and exited technology ventures—bringing builder discipline, capital awareness, and outcome accountability to enterprise leadership and advisory work.
Awards & Recognition
Industry recognition for transformational technology leadership
2024 — Business Transformation 150™ (BT150)
Constellation Research • Recognition for transformational business impact
2023 — Top 5 Digital Transformation Leader Finalist
Manufacturing Leadership Council • AI-driven transformation leadership recognition
2021 — Enterprise CIO of the Year (ORBIE Award)
NewYorkCIO.org • Premier recognition for technology leadership excellence
2020 — Top 5 Finalist, ORBIE Award
NewYorkCIO.org • Enterprise CIO leadership recognition
Media & Thought Leadership
Wall Street Journal CIO Journal — Multiple articles on cloud strategy, vendor management, and enterprise technology — WSJ
TIBCO NOW 2019 Conference Keynote — Supply chain innovation and digital transformation leadership — TIBCO Software
Cloud Wars Live — Broadcom-VMware Analysis — Strategic analysis on major technology acquisitions and cybersecurity — Acceleration Economy Network
Supply Chain COVID Response — Strategic insights on supply chain resilience during global disruption — Cloud Wars
Most leaders meet me after something breaks. My value is helping them avoid that moment.
Great leaders don't push harder — they redesign the system.