About

Health and wealth are the two pillars of a life well lived. I learned the first watching my mother fight Stage IV cancer, where the distance between what medicine knew and what reached her bedside was measured in suffering. I learned the second from my father, a banker who understood that true wealth is not just money, but ownership, agency, opportunity, capital formation, and the fundamental ability to build. I saw that ownership is how ordinary people change their circumstances, and that nothing amplifies human ingenuity like building something of your own. I have spent twenty years building the technology to hold both pillars up.

In 2005 I co-founded ChaCha, a conversational answer engine built two decades before the world met ChatGPT. ChaCha's community of human Guides trained the system to answer questions the way a person would, until the system could do it alone. The industry now calls that approach reinforcement learning from human feedback. We simply called them Guides. At its peak the service reached 30 million monthly users, answered more than two billion questions, and led SMS search in the United States ahead of Google, backed by Jeff Bezos, Compaq founder Rod Canion, Morton Meyerson, and Jack Gill. The company's technology was ultimately acquired in an asset sale. ChaCha proved the thesis that would define everything after it: technology, built well, can put institutional-grade intelligence in the hands of anyone.

In 2011 the mission found its most personal expression. I founded hc1, an AI-powered platform that transforms laboratory and diagnostic data into actionable insight for health systems, helping hospitals optimize clinical care, lab operations, and cost. The platform serves more than 1,000 health systems and diagnostic laboratory sites, spans over 19 billion lab results across 160 million patient records, and counts Quest Diagnostics, Cleveland Clinic, and Sonic Healthcare among its clients. I serve as Founder, Chairman, and CEO.

Health Cloud Capital extends that work across the sector. Healthcare is the largest and most consequential industry in the global economy, and one of the least disrupted by modern software. As Managing Director, I invest at the inflection point where software engineering, data science, and patient outcomes converge, taking concentrated, long-term positions in technically differentiated companies. The portfolio includes hc1; DecisionRx, a medication optimization platform that analyzes genetics and drug interactions so prescribers select the right medication the first time; 3aware, a real-world evidence platform that accelerates development and regulatory approval for medical device companies; and Ryght.ai. My edge is proximity. I operate inside the problems I invest in, and Boombostic Health, my media platform, acts as the lighthouse: telling the stories of the people transforming how we prevent, treat, and cure disease, and surfacing talent and opportunity before the market sees them.

Fido Financial, launched in 2026, is the second pillar made real. Fido translates my belief in ownership, agency, opportunity, and capital formation into an AI-native platform that helps people start and run a business.

The idea for Fido was forged at the intersection of my decades of experience building companies from conception and my work supporting small business funding as an owner and board member of the National Bank of Indianapolis. Seeing firsthand the friction that founders face when trying to secure capital and establish a foothold, I realized the machinery of entrepreneurship should not be a tax on the people with the courage to attempt it.

By using agentic AI to automate the formation, financing, and financial management work that has always stood between people and true independence, Fido removes those barriers. Fido's mission fits in five words: Stop Working For The Man. I serve as Co-Founder and CEO.

Across every venture, one test decides what gets built. Innovation with purpose. Elegant solutions to systemic problems. A legacy measured in how people live, work, and thrive.

If it doesn't improve a life, it isn't worth building.