The short version

The Operator

I've spent the last twelve-plus years operating at the intersection of finance and technology — building the kind of business and financial acumen that comes from actually running transformations, not advising on them from the sidelines. Seven roles across management consulting. Federal Services managing client financials for agencies like DHS. Post-merger integrations. Pricing strategy for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio — the kind of work that teaches you what margin really means and where a business model makes or breaks itself. A Finance Director seat through the pandemic, driving strategic decisions for a 1,000-Managing-Director business. Transforming a 1,000-person FP&A organization, enabling a 25% headcount reduction through digital and process reinvention. Then defining a global organization's first-ever Generative AI Finance Strategy — building the agent ecosystem, deploying Gen AI across pre-close, SEC, payroll, and treasury.

Today I lead AI strategy for CFO clients — helping finance leaders drive efficiency, speed to insights, and growth to the top and bottom line. In the last six months alone, I've engaged with 50+ CFOs across industries, building end-to-end AI roadmaps, deploying agentic solutions, and reimagining how finance functions operate. Enterprise AI delivery at scale, for real organizations, with real stakes. That's one half of my AI experience.

The Builder

The other half is personal. About two years ago, when ChatGPT landed, I couldn't stop. Six months of 2am nights, five days a week, teaching myself Python, APIs, databases, then agents, then multi-agent orchestration. Roughly two thousand hours at the keyboard later, I know AI the way I know it because I've actually done the work. Built, shipped, broken, debugged, rebuilt. That obsession turned into four AI products across wildly different domains — StoryCraftr, Alfred, AutoRev, and SirHENRY — each one stress-testing a different piece of what modern AI can actually do.

The reason what I say at work carries weight is the same reason these personal products exist: I understand function and business, and I really understand AI. How you apply those two things together is where the real value sits. My day job gives me the enterprise lens — scale, stakes, regulation, organizational dynamics. My nights give me the builder's lens — what's actually possible, where things break, what's two releases away. Both inform the other.

The Person

Family-first, always. A husband and father of three — a six-year-old, a four-year-old, and a ten-month-old — and a guy who thrives on movement, growth, and challenge. Raised with Christian values, trying to pass them on to my kids, in part through the bedtime stories I write for them. Based in Northern Virginia. BA Economics from Dickinson College. Before any of this, I ran Mike Aron Visuals, a creative agency for food and beverage brands. When I'm not at the keyboard these days, I'm hiking, on the slopes, in the kitchen testing a cocktail, or at the grill.

The whole point is to show up every day as the best version of myself — for my family, my friends, and the teams I lead. Two years in, I'm still playing the same game: how much can I learn, how fast can I ship, how far can I push this. The laptop still opens around 10. The headphones still go on. The game hasn't gotten old.