Thanks for stopping by and checking out my (much-neglected) website. I’m retired from a desk job, but I occasionally help friends and “special situations.” I’m also an active investor, so I also spend a good amount of time researching investment opportunities. Like most execs, I’ve seen some crazy stuff over the years. As time goes by, I might share a few episodes – although some will be sterilized to protect the not-so-innocent…
Bio
I joke that I could never hold a steady job, and that worked out pretty well. My most recent full time gig was CEO of Westone Labs, a lower middle-market company here in Colorado. After a successful sale to a private equity group in 2011, I was a CxO consultant to Charlotte’s Web Holdings, Inc., the US market leader in hemp-derived health and wellness products.
I started out with the Houston office of PwC (Audit). After several years, I joined several PwC alumni at a real estate development company that was developing First Colony, a 10,000-acre master planned community in southwest Houston. We had great legal counsel and upstream leadership in the Hines organization, and I learned a ton about real estate development, legal & financing agreements, and investment sales. I was CFO of this outfit until 1998, when we moved to Colorado for a lifestyle change. See Background and CV for more.
I grew up in East Texas – deep behind the “pine curtain.” I was a music major my first year in college, then I lost my mind and got an accounting degree. After PwC, I became much more interested in corporate finance, and that’s how I spent most of my career.
Business and Executive Advisory Services
I am managing director of Alpine Advisory Group, a boutique consulting firm that specializes in growth management, turnarounds, and sale or recapitalization of small to middle market companies. I focus on undercapitalized or under-managed situations with unique value creation potential. I specialize in strategy development, competitive advantage, and assembling a team that can drive execution and create sustainable value. Please contact me for further info.
My Contact Information
You can contact me using the contact page on this site, or you can connect with me on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn.
Site Information
This blog is built on WordPress (self-hosted). I use the Genesis Eleven40 theme by StudioPress. Local web and SEO guru swanie helped me with the initial setup, plugin selection and general startup. The photographs on the site are either my personal iPhone photos, or they were obtained from iStockPhoto. The site is hosted by WP Engine.