our people

A decade of seed investing alongside founders across the Mountain West and the U.S. Ran University Venture Fund II end to end and became managing director of the Sorenson Impact Institute team that served as outsourced due diligence to investing entities, presenting and defending recommendations to three different investment committees. Interviewed, hired and trained over 300 college and graduate students who worked deals from sourcing to IC. Former Deloitte CPA.

Co-founded Oakley Networks and, as President, scaled it to $75M in revenue before its acquisition by Raytheon. Helped scale TaskEasy, a national exterior-maintenance marketplace, through its 2022 exit to private equity. Served as a partner at Alta Capital Management, a $500M quality-growth equity manager for institutional and high-net-worth clients. Has advised Shape Security, Synack and other startups.

Co-founded BCBS Ventures, a $300M healthcare venture fund at Sandbox Industries. Venture partner and advisor to Apple Tree Partners and Granite Growth Health Partners. Served on the board of Phreesia ahead of its NYSE IPO, and is an active board member at Cinch, Swell CX, JQ Medical and more than ten other companies. Former partner at Kirkland & Ellis, where he focused on corporate governance, healthcare and intellectual property.