I help business owners innovate, brand, and fund their company’s growth.

Innovation creates possibility.
Brand creates demand.
Financing determines growth.
Let’s align all three.

Book A Strategy Session

Let’s remove the barriers to your business growth

Book a 2-hour strategy intensive to align your product, marketing, and capital strategy for your next stage of growth.

Purpose

To give small business owners and founders clarity on their business model—and a shared strategic foundation for product innovation, marketing strategy, and fundraising.

What You Get

  • Completed Business Model Canvas

  • Written Growth Alignment Summary

  • Clear recommendation

    • Growth Product Development

    • Brand & Market Alignment

    • Capital Strategy

What We’ll Do

  • Business Model Snapshot (30 min)

  • Growth Leverage Points (45 min)

  • Capital Readiness Lens (30 min)

  • Strategic Path Forward (15 min)

PORTFOLIO

I build and advise platforms that sit at the intersection of innovation, brand, and financing—with a focus on what helps small businesses grow, survive, and earn trust in communities.

ON OUR BLOCK®
Co-Founder | Innovation • Brand • Financing

On Our Block is a fintech platform designed to help small businesses and local communities build wealth together.

We built the company from scratch into a seven-figure B2B platform, working with national banks and community organizations to support small business owners and underbanked consumers. Today, the platform is evolving into a consumer-facing marketplace that rewards positive financial behavior with real value at local businesses.

OPEN CRATES
Co-Founder | Brand Building

Open Crates is a new, evolving experiential marketing platform exploring how music, culture, and shared experiences can help small businesses earn trust and build loyal local audiences.

Built in public, Open Crates begins with music-driven supper clubs and intimate cultural events—bringing together local venues, food, and sound to create moments people want to return to. Each activation is an experiment in how culture drives connection, and how connection turns into repeat business.

STREETS FIRST PODCAST
Executive Producer | Strategy • Financing

Streets First is a culture-driven media platform focused on entrepreneurship, ownership, and economic resilience—told through voices that resonate with real operators.

As Executive Producer and lead financier for Season 3, I helped shape the show’s strategy and growth, supporting conversations that move beyond inspiration into the realities of building and sustaining businesses. Hosted by NYC streetball legend A‑Butta, the show features entrepreneurs, creators, and cultural leaders navigating ownership in real time.

Strategic guidance and capital support led to follow-on investment in a feature-length documentary, expanding the platform’s long-term impact.

Hello.

I’m a Financier with Capital Lending Corp and co-Founder of On Our Block, a blockchain platform that connects residents to local business owners to foster community development.

I’ve spent 15 years as a Venture Capitalist, Business Developer, and Startup Executive working alongside businesses that keep local economies alive—restaurants, trades, retail shops, creative studios, community builders.

What I’ve learned is simple: there is a tier of strong, high-revenue businesses that the financial system consistently misjudges.

My job is to clarify and document strategy that positions my clients for capital.

Let’s work.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • This session is for small business owners and founders with real traction—typically generating revenue, serving real customers, and thinking seriously about growth. It’s especially valuable if you’re feeling stuck, preparing to invest in marketing, or considering raising capital.

    If you’re still at the idea stage, this is likely too early.

  • This is a working strategy session, not advice over Zoom.

    We actively build and pressure-test your business model using a structured framework that connects:

    • What you offer (product/service)

    • How customers find and choose you (marketing)

    • How growth is funded and sustained (capital)

    You leave with clarity, not notes.

  • Minimal preparation is required.

    After booking, you’ll complete a short intake so I understand:

    • Your business model

    • Revenue streams

    • Growth goals

    • Any capital or marketing decisions you’re considering

    This allows us to use the full two hours productively.

  • You will leave with:

    • A completed Business Model Canvas

    • A clear view of where growth is constrained

    • A prioritized set of next steps for product, marketing, and funding

    • A recommendation on whether further advisory support makes sense—and what kind

    Many clients describe this as the first time their entire business “clicked” in one conversation.

  • Yes—but not in a prescriptive, one-size-fits-all way.

    The goal is alignment and decision clarity, not a generic playbook. You’ll understand what matters most right now, what can wait, and what may actually be holding growth back.

  • The Strategy Intensive is designed to stand on its own. If a longer engagement makes sense, I’ll recommend it clearly. If it doesn’t, you’ll still leave with a solid foundation you can act on independently.

    There is no obligation to continue.

  • That’s common—and often helpful.

    This session does not replace those partners. It helps you get aligned so the work you do with agencies, lenders, or advisors actually compounds instead of conflicting.

    Think of it as strategy-of-record work, not execution.

  • The session is especially effective for:

    • Service businesses and operators

    • Restaurants and hospitality groups

    • Consumer brands

    • Local and regional companies planning to scale

    • Owners considering their first raise or expansion

    If you’re running a real business with real constraints, this will resonate.

  • If you’re unsure, that’s often a sign the session is useful.

    This intensive is designed for moments of transition or tension—when growth feels possible but unclear. If you’re still deciding, feel free to reach out with a brief description of your business, and I’ll tell you honestly whether it’s a fit.

  • You’re paying for:

    • Structured strategic thinking

    • An underwriting-informed growth lens

    • Years of experience working across innovation, brand, and capital

    The value is not the two hours—it’s the months of misalignment you avoid afterward.

LET’S ALIGN YOUR PRODUCT, MARKETING, AND FINANCING.

Book A Strategy Session