🚀 CFO | PE | VC | M&A 💡 Scaling businesses | Driving growth 🎯 Founder @contrailfinance & @krush_media | Former @JobsOhio CFO | Investor ✈️ Pilot | Army Vet

Joined May 2013
Buying an existing business flips the odds in your favor versus starting from scratch. Nail price, structure seller financing, and improve ops. Don’t overpay—due diligence on cash flow is non-negotiable. Use OPM to multiply your equity returns. entrepreneur.com/money-finan… #Buyout
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Business ownership is opening up beyond the ultra-wealthy via streamlined platforms. But real success depends on sourcing quality deals and delivering top-tier investor service consistently. Without that, growth stalls. #InvestorRelations entrepreneur.com/money-finan…
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Rebuild trust in your data: 1. Define one truth: ≈5 core KPIs that run business 2. Tighten data flow: Map sources → transformations → outputs 3. Archive zombies spreadsheets 5. Monthly: tie assumptions to actuals & explain variances contrailfinancial.com #BusinessGrowth
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I have heard about traders mimicking @SpeakerPelosi stock trades for awhile now. Last month, Pelosi bought a significant amount of call options on Tempus AI. I decided to take the same trade. Currently, I am up 137% 😀. Amazing.
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Dear @NFL Pleas don’t ever schedule the @Bengals vs @Browns and @steelers vs @Ravens at the same time ever again.
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Very proud of my colleague Lorraine Terry, @JobsOhio MD of #OHLQ. Lorraine…Jäegermeister is on me when you get back to #Ohio!
Forbes Power Women Summit Changemaker Spotlight: Lorraine Terry, Managing Director of Beverage System for @JobsOhio, speaks about the huge amount of female leadership at Jobs Ohio. #ForbesWomen
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Brian Faust retweeted
🌟 Huge congrats to our Director of Project Ops, @matt_deptola, for being named a @columbusbiz1st 40 Under 40 honoree. Thanks to his stellar leadership & support for community members, he continues to deliver #EconDev results for Ohio. We're so proud to have him on our team!
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Happen to catch the Madden documentary on Fox this last weekend. What a class act. RIP Coach…. John Madden, football legend, dies at 85 - ProFootballTalk profootballtalk.nbcsports.co…
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A Danish museum lent an artist $84,000 for his work. He kept the cash and named the art ‘Take the Money and Run.’ a.msn.com/01/en-us/AAOUgEQ?o…
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Sorry all...looks like my account t was hacked...I’m not really selling sunglasses online...should be good now...
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