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Hacker, entrepreneur, investor, traveler, yogi, father
I'm a builder and operator across hospitality, real estate, and technology.
My team and I acquire and revive interesting properties, build businesses and software, and bring together the capital and people needed to make them work. I write about what I'm building, learning, and thinking about along the way.
Currently building
Right Now
- Operating Marée, through its first year in Spring Lake
- Renovating The Windswept, a 46-room oceanfront motel
- Raising Capital The Darby, a hotel and restaurant in the Catskills
- In Development Sylvan Hall, in a historic Avon-by-the-Sea building
- Building Convene, onboarding new market organizers
- Consulting Software and technology work through DBL Systems
Projects
What We're Building
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The Windswept
Part of Inplace Hospitality
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Marée Bistro + Bar
Raising CapitalAcquisition
The Darby
In Development
Raising Capital
Sylvan Hall
Operating
The Surf Village
Part of Inplace Hospitality
OperatingRepositioning
502 Brinley
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FRESH Markets
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Convene Markets
Areas of Work
Where I Spend My Time
Hospitality
Bungalows, motels, and a restaurant — run hands-on, not from a spreadsheet.
Real Estate
Adaptive reuse and preservation. Buildings with character, given a working future.
Technology
Products like Convene, the systems behind our businesses, and selective consulting.
Capital
We raise for acquisitions and development, and invest alongside our partners.
Work With Me
We work with investors, founders, property owners and businesses where there's a good fit. That might mean investing together, looking at a property, helping build software, or working through a difficult problem.