- Date of Birth: August 14th
- Birthplace: Walnut Creek, California
- Education: UCLA – M.S. Mechanical Engineering
- Literature: Paul Hawken, Stephen King, George Orwell, Guy Kiyosaki, IDEO books
- Interests: Colombia, Salsa, Skydiving, Neti Pot, Master Cleanse, Sustainable Business, Rapid collaboration/Innovation, liars dice, riding motorcycles, civilization studies
- Aversions: fast food, TV, crashing motorcycles, food poisoning, cheap plastic goods
- Travel: Mexico, British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Canary Islands, Costa Rica, Portugal, Morocco, Spain, Germany, Austria, England, France, Switzerland, Canada, Amsterdam
- Green Plans: Building Opportunity Green into a bastion of awesomeness. Connecting people who are smart, educated, have fun, are great in business, and want to use their talents and drive to create constructive business. Also, collaborating, connecting, facilitating influential people who care about bigger picture issues and want to be somebody about them. Interesting Fact: Completed Mechanical Engineering after transferring in my 4th year. Own half of a successful green business conference company. Have broken 13 bones in my body, but have only thrown up twice
Grew up in the East Bay Area (Danville) where I developed an aversion to the scenario of marrying, having kids, working for a while then retiring with heart problems and complaints. When I was 18 my friend Sean left his small block and large block engines, 2 Bultaco motorcycles, a transmission, and various other car parts in my Dad’s barn (which would be removed a mere 7 years later), and also made it out to UCLA. Along the way I travelled Europe, made some great friends, honed my ability to get into peoples’ heads in rock paper scissors, and developed a desire to be a business man. So I created a web start-up called Soup of Knowledge right out of college. While we made great progress, the company didn’t work out for me, though my buddy KM utilized some of the information of what it was like to run a company to get an excellent job, for which he still owes me a beer. Staying in LA, I continued with learning the web, and worked for a web development company, then started my own development company with my business partner Karen. Then out of nowhere she suggested that we turn our interest of green business into a conference. I thought it was an idea of questionable value, but I´m OK with being wrong sometimes. It turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to create Opportunity Green. Now I’m here with Feral Green honing my knowledge of the world, prepping for creating an incredible company and other out of the ordinary, fun adventures.
