How I’ve worked with others has also defined my career path.

I was born in Media, Pennsylvania, a small town outside Philadelphia—Go Eagles!  My mom helped me get my first    job, which was stocking shelves.  Since I was from a family of five, the store owner wanted to keep my mom as a customer, so it didn’t take him long to hire me.

My passion to help communities adopt software started in college at the University of Delaware—Go Blue Hens!  The college had just purchased its first IBM PCs.  My job helping students and the U D community learn how to use spreadsheets and word processors was my first experience helping a community migrate from the old way (HP calculators and typewriters) to a new way (computers and software).

My work at UD helped me land my first job at JP Morgan in New York City.  At Morgan, I helped bankers, secretaries, the executive team, and anyone who had a PC learn how to be more productive.  I worked with nearly every department in the bank and enjoyed watching people smile as software allowed them to work smarter and faster.  After putting lots of smiles on the faces of bankers, I decided it was time to go work for a software company.  I joined Lotus Development as one of the first six Lotus Notes sales engineers.

Since then, I’ve led teams at Radnet, IntraLinks, WizeHive, and iPipeline.  At IntraLinks, we helped the M&A community move the due diligence process from stacks of documents in locked rooms (physical data rooms) to the cloud (virtual data rooms).  At iPipeline, we helped the life insurance community migrate the life insurance application and underwriting process from paper and manual underwriting to online applications and automated underwriting.

I’ve been fortunate to have worked for some great companies with outstanding employees and awesome customers.  At 58, I recognize the Lord has played a big role in mapping out each step of my career. I faithfully believe he led me to ProDeal.

As I was transitioning out of iPipeline in late 2019, I was introduced to ProDeal by a former IntraLinks investor.  After meeting ProDeal’s founder, executive team, and several board members, I fell in love with the product, developed a passion for the private lending industry, and was excited about the opportunity to help another community move from the old way to a better way.

I joined ProDeal as an investor, board member and CEO just three weeks before COVID-19 shut down the world.  After nearly a year at ProDeal, I’m energized by the passion the private lending community has for meeting the borrowing needs of its customers and their willingness to adopt a new and more efficient way of closing deals, especially during the current global crisis.

It has not been lost on me that in my journey to help others move from an old way to a better way, my career has consistently moved to new and better as well.