About
Chief Product & Technology Officer at ClearOne Advantage. Twenty years building and running product, design, and engineering organizations.
The hardest technology problems I've been handed were almost never technical. They were lane confusion, unclear decision rights, or a trusted metric pointing the whole company in the wrong direction.
Twenty years in, I've stopped believing that better technology fixes a company. Better decisions do, made by people who understand why they're making them.
I'm the Chief Product & Technology Officer at ClearOne Advantage, a private equity-backed consumer finance company, where I own Product, Engineering, Data Science & Analytics, Brand & Creative, and IT.
The longer version of how I work is in my README.
How I lead
Three things that don't change across companies.
Decisions, not execution
AI made execution cheap. It didn't make deciding what to build any easier — that's where the effort and judgment go now.
Build the structure
Most people don't stall because they lack ambition; they stall because nobody built the structure that tells them what good looks like. I've built career ladders, calibration, and development conversations at every level, across three companies.
Stay in the room
A strategy only works if it survives being retold by someone who wasn't there when you set it. Storytelling gets filed as a soft skill right up until it's the thing that breaks.
Track record
Outside ClearOne, I advise a small number of technology teams through High Leverage.