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🚀 CFO | PE | VC | M&A 💡 Scaling businesses | Driving growth 🎯 Founder @contrailfinance & @krush_media | Former @JobsOhio CFO | Investor ✈️ Pilot | Army Vet

Joined May 2013
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Buying an existing business flips the odds in your favor versus starting from scratch. Nail price, structure seller financing, and improve ops. Don’t overpay—due diligence on cash flow is non-negotiable. Use OPM to multiply your equity returns. entrepreneur.com/money-finan… #Buyout
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Business ownership is opening up beyond the ultra-wealthy via streamlined platforms. But real success depends on sourcing quality deals and delivering top-tier investor service consistently. Without that, growth stalls. #InvestorRelations entrepreneur.com/money-finan…
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Rebuild trust in your data: 1. Define one truth: ≈5 core KPIs that run business 2. Tighten data flow: Map sources → transformations → outputs 3. Archive zombies spreadsheets 5. Monthly: tie assumptions to actuals & explain variances contrailfinancial.com #BusinessGrowth
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I have heard about traders mimicking @SpeakerPelosi stock trades for awhile now. Last month, Pelosi bought a significant amount of call options on Tempus AI. I decided to take the same trade. Currently, I am up 137% 😀. Amazing.
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Dear @NFL Pleas don’t ever schedule the @Bengals vs @Browns and @steelers vs @Ravens at the same time ever again.
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Very proud of my colleague Lorraine Terry, @JobsOhio MD of #OHLQ. Lorraine…Jäegermeister is on me when you get back to #Ohio!
Forbes Power Women Summit Changemaker Spotlight: Lorraine Terry, Managing Director of Beverage System for @JobsOhio, speaks about the huge amount of female leadership at Jobs Ohio. #ForbesWomen
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🌟 Huge congrats to our Director of Project Ops, @matt_deptola, for being named a @columbusbiz1st 40 Under 40 honoree. Thanks to his stellar leadership & support for community members, he continues to deliver #EconDev results for Ohio. We're so proud to have him on our team!
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Happen to catch the Madden documentary on Fox this last weekend. What a class act. RIP Coach…. John Madden, football legend, dies at 85 - ProFootballTalk profootballtalk.nbcsports.co…
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A Danish museum lent an artist $84,000 for his work. He kept the cash and named the art ‘Take the Money and Run.’ a.msn.com/01/en-us/AAOUgEQ?o…
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Sorry all...looks like my account t was hacked...I’m not really selling sunglasses online...should be good now...
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