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EXPERIENCES
Operating experience, applied to real business challenges.
19-Hotel Portfolio
$135M
DC, Michigan, Florida
Turning around a $135M hotel portfolio
Inherited a 19-hotel portfolio where every decision ran three weeks behind the numbers that should have driven it. General managers were making calls on gut instinct — by the time a report reached them, it was already out of date.
Built the company’s first internal analytics function from scratch — not a dashboard project, but a real shift in how the portfolio made decisions. Cut reporting lag from three weeks to four days, giving GMs current information instead of memory to run on.
Grew portfolio revenue 6% year-over-year on average over the next several years, outperforming comparable properties by more than 200 basis points. Directed $10M a year in capital planning across the portfolio, hitting every franchise quality target along the way.
9-Unit Luxury Dining Group
$56M
Restoring a $56M luxury dining business
Came in during an ownership transition, brought on to run operations while the business figured out its next chapter. The leadership team was fractured, the brand’s positioning was slipping, and nobody had reset the operating cadence in a long time.
Rebuilt the core team within 90 days and got the operation running on a real rhythm again — promoted from COO to CEO on the strength of it. From there, rebuilt the brand from the inside out: culture, local sourcing, service standards, a genuine reinvestment in what the brand was supposed to stand for.
Delivered results where they needed to show up — average check grew 7% year-over-year, comparable sales turned positive, and management turnover dropped by roughly a third. The brand got its footing back, and so did the team running it.
150+ Unit Ghost Kitchen Platform
3 Countries
Building the operating model for 150+ units
Co-founded this with no operating model to inherit and no playbook to follow — just a bet that ghost kitchens could work better than anyone was proving at the time, if the operations behind them were built right.
Built that model from zero: kitchen layouts, a portfolio of 15 brands, supply chain, R&D into alternative proteins. Raised $7M to fund the scale-up and ran the operating side of getting from proof-of-concept in Singapore to a real, multi-country business.
Reached 150+ units across three countries and more than $10M in gross merchandise value within three years, with unit kitchen costs running 18% below traditional benchmarks. Clear proof of building an operation, not just improving one that already exists.