About

There's a particular kind of pressure that nonprofit leaders carry. You're accountable to your mission, your board, your funders, your community, and your staff — often simultaneously, often with fewer resources than the moment demands.

I know that pressure. I've carried it.

As a Chief Operating Officer in the nonprofit sector, I managed the full complexity of organizational leadership — finance, HR, programs, technology, and the endless work of keeping a mission-driven organization moving forward. I know what it means to make hard decisions with incomplete information and limited budgets.

I also spent years as an executive in the technology industry — and I built something.

The AI platform I developed was selected for presentation at the **Clinton Global Initiative**, where I joined heads of state, global foundation leaders, and social entrepreneurs to present both a panel discussion and a scientific poster on its impact. It became the subject of an **NIH-funded research study** — one of the first of its kind. The campaign promoting it earned a **Clio Award** — the advertising industry's highest honor — for the agency that created it. Rocky Mountain PBS ran **celebrity-sponsored promotional spots** during Sesame Street and other programming, featuring scientists and local sports icons, because the platform was trusted enough to put in front of families and children. The **Rose Community Foundation** recognized it with an Innovate for Good award.

My work in intelligent systems goes back further than most. I hold issued patents as primary inventor for technology that tracks, organizes, and acts on data from every RF-emitting device in a defined space — in three dimensions, in real time. The applications covered in the patent include aircraft landing guidance, IED detection, smart traffic control, and retail behavior analysis. *Apogeo Spatial* magazine called it a technology that would "redefine the possibilities for everyone from retailers and marketers to airlines, car manufacturers and municipalities." That was before anyone called it AI. The architecture — observe, ingest, organize, decide, act — is the same architecture that powers every intelligent system being built today. Notably, *Apogeo Spatial* describes its own mission as ensuring "the security of water, food and energy" and helping people "build a more sustainable world." That's not a technology magazine. That's a mission statement — and it's the same values that drive every nonprofit I work with.

My most recent work before launching NonprofitCAIO took me into a different kind of frontier — but the same underlying mission. I spent several years developing financial infrastructure for people the traditional banking system has abandoned: immigrants paying predatory fees to send money home, families trapped in hyperinflationary local economies, refugees stripped of everything they carried at corrupt border crossings. I pioneered the first insurable institutional custody process for digital assets — a financial infrastructure first — and spent three years developing durable multi-signature self-custody processes designed to protect digital assets even in the event of the death or disability of a primary stakeholder. The company didn't survive. The need it was built to serve hasn't gone away. What I learned in that work — about trust, about protecting vulnerable people from catastrophic loss, about building systems that work when everything else fails — is directly present in how I think about AI governance, data privacy, and responsible technology adoption for nonprofits.

That combination — nonprofit operations leadership, technology executive experience, and a two-decade record of building intelligent systems for people who need them most — is rare. And it's exactly what the moment requires.

AI is not coming to the nonprofit sector. It's already here. The question is whether your organization will shape how it's used — or be shaped by it.

I work with a small number of organizations at a time, which means when you engage me, you get me — not a junior consultant with a framework. My work is practical, specific, and grounded in the reality of how nonprofits actually operate.

I'm based in Denver, Colorado. I work with organizations across the Rocky Mountain region and nationally.