Founder of Motion AI Systems. M&A advisor with $550M+ deployed across 70+ acquisitions at Vital Records Control, where I rebuilt the company's reporting infrastructure from Excel spreadsheets to a Power BI environment running on 100M+ rows. This is the work I want to do for more companies.
I spent the better part of a decade looking at small and mid-sized businesses as acquisition targets. Hundreds of them. Across industries, geographies, ownership structures, and management styles.
One pattern showed up over and over: none of them had their data hooked up correctly. The data was a mess. Owners didn't know what their company was worth. They weren't running things efficiently. They knew they had a problem — they just didn't know what good looked like, or who to call.
"AI is the easy part. The data underneath isn't. Most companies don't have the foundation, and no one's telling them the truth about it."
At Vital Records Control, I had a chance to do something about it. When I arrived, the team was running the business on Excel spreadsheets — bumping into row limits, losing context, rebuilding reports every month by hand. I built out databases and Power BI models. Today, our data model runs on over 100 million rows and is used by everyone from operations managers up to the CEO, CFO, and board of directors.
That experience clarified something: my purpose here is to serve other people. The companies that need this most — growing mid-market businesses, CFOs trying to prepare for an exit, founders who built something real but can't see clearly into their own numbers — they deserve to have what enterprise companies have, sized to their reality. That's what Motion AI Systems exists to do.
I do a lot of speaking, programming, and community work — because the only way the mid-market gets better at this is if the people who know how share what they know. Some of the recent and upcoming work:
Husband, father of five, frequent visitor of zoos with very loud opinions on which animals are the best. In quieter hours: complex puzzles, nonfiction, Mozart, and artisan loose-leaf tea. I believe the work matters most when the people doing it have something real to come home to.
30 minutes, no pitch deck. Tell me what's slowing you down. I'll tell you whether Motion AI Systems is the right fit — and if it's not, I'll point you toward who is.