About The Author

I don’t like to have massive paragraphs about myself…it makes me uncomfortable.  I am a retread at Microsoft, having left the company 9 years ago to head out to Wall Street and a couple of startups.  Having spent time at Soros Private Equity, I learned a ton about the other side of the table, investing over $70 million, mostly in technology related businesses.  Post Soros, I decided to take a management position at RLX, one of our portfolio companies.  We sold that business in 2005 to HP.  I went on to found IMSafer, a consumer Internet company focused on protecting kids online, in early 2006, built the company up to 150K customers, and sold that business to a company in the UK. 

My wife and I wanted to get back to Seattle, and, quite honestly, with two kids under age three, I needed some time to breathe.  So of course I take on the massive challenge of working for Microsoft in our developer platforms division.

I have a very dusty engineering degree and an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an MBA from The Wharton School of Business.  I have to be honest, I’m not sure I’m using any of what I learned in school.

In my free time, I listen to music, read a ton, mess around with Python, train for Ironman and half Ironman distance triathlons, and, most importantly, spend time with my wife and two awesome kids.

You can find me on Facebook and Twitter, and a great interview I did with Andrew Warner of Mixergy here.