I've never taken
the expected path.

Before I built a company, I was a high school teacher. Before I raised venture capital, I worked in the White House. Before I sold my first startup to Mattel, I was told the odds were against me. I did it anyway.

I co-founded Caribu, an interactive video-calling platform for families, scaled it to international recognition, and sold it to Mattel in 2022. Before that, I served as a White House Fellow and senior policy advisor at the U.S. Treasury Department under President Obama. I ran Teach For America as Executive Director in Miami-Dade. I consulted for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I started my career in management consulting at Booz & Co.

Through all of it, the thread has been the same: I walk into complex situations, build the systems, and get things running. I've done it across government, media, technology, education, nonprofits, and startups. Across countries. Across industries no one expected me to be in.

"Most advisors give you frameworks. I give you what actually happened in the room, because I was in the room."

I named this company Dark Horse because that's the story of my life. The underestimated one. The one nobody saw coming. A dark horse is the person in the room who wasn't supposed to win but did, because they outworked, out-prepared, and out-operated everyone else. That's who I work with, and that's how I work.

Today, through Dark Horse Ops, I work with founders, executives, and leaders who are building something that matters. Whether you're navigating growth, fundraising, scale, or exit, I bring two decades of cross-industry operating experience to the table, not theory.