Experience

NewRoad Capital Partners

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Partner

  • Mar 2013 - 10 years 10 months

  I helped co-found NewRoad Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners with my Partners Jeremy Wilson, and Doug Degn. Our team is focused on connecting people and ideas that make a difference and create value for our Partners. We also focus on demand driven businesses and provide Series A and Series B financing from $5m to $20m for growing companies that we believe we can help put into hyper-growth mode.



BlueInGreen

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairman

  • 2010 - Dec 2019

  Fayetteville, Arkansas Area Responsible for raising capital and putting together an executive team to take a technology company from an early stage R&D company with patented technology to a vibrant new entry in the water and wastewater industry providing the most economically and effective side-stream gas injection system for oxygen, ozone, or carbon dioxide for water and wastewater treatment replacing chemicals with natural gases that are safer and easier to handle and create less solids for plants and companies to have… Show more Responsible for raising capital and putting together an executive team to take a technology company from an early stage R&D company with patented technology to a vibrant new entry in the water and wastewater industry providing the most economically and effective side-stream gas injection system for oxygen, ozone, or carbon dioxide for water and wastewater treatment replacing chemicals with natural gases that are safer and easier to handle and create less solids for plants and companies to have to handle Show less



Virtual Incubation Corporation, LLC

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

• Director

  • 2002 - Mar 2014

  Business Incubator for start up companies in Bio Sciences and Technology.



Gravity Ventures LLC

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manager

  • 2010 - 2013

  Fayetteville, Arkansas Area Venture Capital focusing on early stage Arkansas and regional start-ups and high-growth companies.



Sport Clips Haircuts

• United States
• Consumer Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• President

  • Nov 2002 - Feb 2010

  Helped Sport Clips and the Logan family grow Sport Clips from 42 stores primarily in the Southwest to 720 stores Coast to Coast during my years there as Area Developer and then President and co-owner with the Logan family.



Edgewater Consulting

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • 1996 - 2009

  Helped transition the move of StaffMark from Fayetteville, AR to Wakefield, MA and the name change to Edgewater which was one of StaffMark's most successful acquisitions. Then helped advise the CEO as needed.



Staffmark

• CEO

  • 1988 - 2001

  Took StaffMark public in 1996 through a roll-up of Brewer Personnel and 5 other StaffMark co-founding companies. We then grew from $120mm to over $1.2 Billion through organic growth and close to 40 acquisitions from 1996 to 2001.