About

When I consider what matters most in life, it comes down to two things: your health and your freedom.

I learned about the pitfalls of reactive healthcare the hard way, watching my mom fight Stage IV cancer. Seeing the agonizing gap between what medicine was capable of and what actually made it to her bedside showed me just how much unnecessary human suffering happens in that space.

My dad taught me the importance of freedom. He was a banker, but he didn’t just talk about money. He talked about ownership. Having the agency, the tools, and the capital to build something for yourself. He showed me that owning your work is how regular folks change their family’s trajectory, and there’s nothing quite like the spark that comes from building something of your own. It’s what our economy is built upon. The way ordinary people achieve extraordinary results to realize their dreams.

I’ve spent the last twenty years working to strengthen those two pillars using technology.

Back in 2005, long before the world had ever heard of ChatGPT, I co-founded ChaCha. We built a conversational answer engine powered by a massive community of human “Guides.” They trained the system to answer user questions just like a real person would, until the AI could handle it on its own.

Today, Silicon Valley calls that “reinforcement learning from human feedback.” Back then, we didn’t have a technical name for it, but I saw what was possible when builders willing to work nonstop are inspired by a worthy vision.

At our peak, 30 million people a month were using ChaCha. We answered over two billion questions and actually were the highest trafficked text-message service in the US, backed by some famous names like Jeff Bezos and Rod Canion. While the business was over a decade early due to the technical constraints back in 2005, it proved something I’ve believed ever since: if you build technology right, you can help millions of everyday people achieve their dreams.

In 2011, that mission got deeply personal. I started hc1 to make sense of the mountains of laboratory and diagnostic data sitting around in the medical world. Today, as Founder, Chairman, and CEO, I’m proud that our AI platform serves over 350 health systems and lab sites - helping giants across the country care for patients better and run smarter across 160 million lives.

I carried that same gritty approach over to Health Cloud Capital, where I serve as Managing Director. Healthcare is the biggest, most important industry on earth, but it’s been notoriously slow to adopt modern software. I don’t invest from an ivory tower by managing spreadsheets; I invest right where software, data, and patient care meet, placing long-term bets on companies solving real problems. That includes hc1 Insights, DecisionRx (which uses genetics so doctors hit the right prescription on the first try), 3aware.ai (speeding up life-saving medical devices), and Ryght.ai. To give diagnostics innovators a platform, I host Boombostic Health, a media platform where we shine a spotlight on the courageous innovators quietly transforming how we prevent, treat, and cure disease.

In 2026, I launched Fido Fintech with two amazing cofounders, Max and Andrew, and our flagship AI service FidoHQ.ai. Fido Fintech was created to give current and aspiring small business owners the precise AI powered capabilities required to succeed.

Sitting on the board at the National Bank of Indianapolis, witnessing my dad’s banking career, and building companies my whole life, I saw the endless red tape and headache business owners face just trying to get started, manage cash, get a loan, or handle the many tedious daily tasks that a smart financial partner should handle. The machinery of starting something shouldn’t punish the people brave enough to try it. Fido HQ uses smart AI agents to handle the tedious paperwork, business planning, financing, and money management that usually gets in the way of true independence. We are leading the SWFTM™ movement, enabling millions of small business owners to Stop Working For The Man and start working for themselves.

At the end of the day, every project I commit to has to pass one simple test. It can’t just be interesting. It has to matter. I’m not interested in technology for its own sake; I’m relentlessly building the future of health and commerce to help real people live healthier, gain freedom, and achieve their financial dreams.