Raleigh, NC

Making marketing
make sense.

I help companies figure out where their marketing is working, where it isn't, and what to do about it.

10+
Years
$3M
ARR built & exited
10M+
Annual visitors
Marketing & Growth
Raleigh, NC
About

Strategy is only useful if
someone can execute it.

I started as a creative director. I learned pretty quickly that a good idea without a working system behind it goes nowhere. So I built the systems.

Over the past decade I've led marketing across agencies, startups, a venture-backed media company I co-founded, and multi-location businesses. In each case the job was the same: figure out what's actually driving growth, build the infrastructure to support it, and make sure the data tells the real story.

I'm not a consultant who hands you a deck. I'm an operator who builds things and sticks around to see if they work.

$2M
Raised to launch a content business. Scaled it to acquisition.
30%
Organic pipeline growth at an enterprise SaaS company in under two years.
62%
Of paid traffic producing zero conversions — found it, fixed it.
50+
Person team built from scratch. 18 direct reports at peak.
Thinking

A few things I keep coming back to. Not frameworks — just observations from working inside a lot of different marketing functions.

On data
More reporting isn't the same as better visibility.

Most teams have too many dashboards and not enough clarity. The question isn't what can we track — it's what do we actually need to know to make a decision this week. Start there and build backward.

On spend
The leak is almost never where you think it is.

When revenue isn't where it should be, the instinct is to spend more at the top of the funnel. But most of the time the problem is in the middle — a handoff that doesn't happen, a follow-up that doesn't land, a conversion path nobody tested.

On growth
Scaling fast without a system underneath just makes the mess bigger.

Growth creates pressure. Pressure reveals whatever you didn't build properly. The companies that scale well are the ones that built the boring infrastructure first — clean data, a working CRM, a process their team actually follows.

Contact

Let's have a
real conversation.

I work with a small number of people at a time. If something here resonates and you want to talk through a problem, I'm easy to reach.

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