From Pennsylvania pines to Colorado peaks.
I grew up in rural Pennsylvania surrounded by pine trees, cold creeks, and white-tailed deer. Hunting, fishing, camping under actual stars. I earned my Eagle Scout before 18, an experience that taught me self-reliance, service, and a deep respect for the natural world.
MIT sharpened my mind. Materials Science & Engineering, the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, co-founding Hemetrics (biomedical diagnostics), and winning the $1K Warmup Competition. The best way to understand something is to build it.
California ignited my ambition. Concentrated solar at Amonix, world-record CPV modules across the Southwest. Electric vehicles at Evercar, putting Nissan Leafs into rideshare drivers' hands. Autonomous delivery at Nuro, one of the earliest operations hires scaling from a founding team to a real company.
Colorado became home. Rachael, Scout, and I put down roots in Boulder. I co-founded Elephant Energy to electrify everything and spent five years building the team and technology that made it the easiest way to get off fossil fuels. Now I'm building again.
