About

I’m an operator, investor, and advisor focused on long-term work: building businesses, exercising judgment, and supporting leaders who take responsibility seriously.

My life’s work is building Decada Group with my best friend Adam, a holding company we formed in 2020 to acquire and steward enduring businesses in Utah. We take a long view, favoring craftsmanship, strong fundamentals, and continuity over speed or financial engineering. When we acquire a business, it’s a baton pass, honoring what came before while working carefully to build what comes next. Today, we steward five businesses in Salt Lake City.

Alongside that work, I invest and advise through Patina Capital. Patina operates like a small, personal family office, providing minority capital, board service, and CEO counsel to founders and operators building meaningful companies. The work is quiet and selective by design, grounded in stewardship over chasing local maxima.

Over time, I’ve become less interested in fast growth for its own sake and more interested in judgment: how decisions are made when information is incomplete, incentives are misaligned, and the stakes are real.

That perspective shapes how I invest, advise, and write.

I’m also involved in civic and nonprofit work, primarily around small business advocacy and community-building efforts in Utah and Washington, D.C. I currently serve on the boards of the Utah Independent Business Coalition, GREENbike, the Internet for Growth Advisory Council.

I write in a few different contexts: evergreen essays on leadership and stewardship, occasional community-focused pieces, and more personal writing elsewhere. Links to that work live on the Writing page.