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I’ve scaled a SoftBank-backed company from 6 to 376 hotels in six months. Sold enterprise SaaS at a pre-IPO and a publicly traded firm. Built books of business at three of the world’s largest insurance brokerages. And I held Bitcoin through every chapter since 2017.

VP of Employee Health & Benefits at the #1, #3, and #6 ranked global insurance brokerages. Dual licensed.
SoftBank-backed operator who scaled a hotel and hospitality portfolio from 6 to 376 properties in six months.
Bitcoin practitioner since 2017 — through SoftBank, SaaS, and back to benefits.
The Path Here

I started in employee benefits at the #3 global brokerage as an intern who won the national sales challenge, earned a full-time producer role, and built a book of business in Dallas in under three years. Then I got recruited to OYO, the fastest-growing SoftBank portfolio company in the world.

At OYO I was a Senior Commercial Manager who scaled their U.S. hotel portfolio from 6 to 376 properties in six months. I helped build the underwriting algorithm with SoftBank’s team to assess and deploy CapEx, grew the team from 4 to 43, and closed the Hooters Hotel in Las Vegas. When the global COO relocated us to Palo Alto to lead a vacation homes launch, I went. When COVID hit, I adapted. I moved through Domio, pre-IPO Paycor (one deal from Presidents Club), and Coupa (publicly traded, Thoma Bravo buyout) building emerging market divisions before returning to what I know best.

I came back to benefits at the #6 global brokerage, took over a large retiring executive’s book, grew it, and earned the Vice President title covering both employee benefits and commercial lines. Dual licensed. From there, I was recruited to VP of Employee Health & Benefits at the #1 insurance brokerage firm on the planet, where I was rebuilding a $1.5M book in my home market of Detroit before pivoting to going all in on Lightning Strategies.

Through SoftBank board rooms, SaaS sales floors, and brokerage C-suites, I held Bitcoin. Accumulating since 2017, watching it deliver returns no reserve instrument could touch while the benefits industry kept recommending the same losing strategy.

Lightning Strategies is the firm I wish existed when I was advising self-funded employers.

Not another Bitcoin evangelist. Not another insurance consultant. A practitioner-led Chief Bitcoin Officer advisory firm built specifically for founder-led, self-funded mid-market employers that refuse to let healthcare inflation outpace their reserves.

I sit between two worlds most advisors never bridge: the operational reality of self-funded health plans, and the hardest money ever created. The mandate is simple — build a treasury that compounds faster than your claims trend, governed under a board-approved policy, owned and controlled by you.

If the math works for your plan, we engage. If it doesn’t, I tell you before you spend a dollar. That is the whole job.

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