Origin

I didn’t think I was the person to build businesses. That seemed like someone else’s path, you know.

I enrolled at university studying Information Science. Back then, Business Management was a compulsory subject. I read the chapters, made the notes, did the work. And I failed. Other students passed without much fuss.

The next year I had a choice: repeat it, or try a new subject the university was offering called Entrepreneurship. I had heard the word before but I just didn’t know what it truly meant. I chose it out of spite. Ten of us showed up for that first lecture but it changed everything… I think my jaw hung open the whole class long. That was the first time I realized I could forge my own path in business and build value for everyone around me through it.

So I started building. And failing. Web development. Animation studio we called “Engimation”. Web hosting we called Webbber”. A CRM for car dealerships. Some of these early stage enterprises I started while still studying, some squeezed into evenings and weekends. None of them made it. But every one was teaching me something about what it actually takes to build value. On that journey, I started noticing something I couldn’t stop thinking about.

The Problem

There are brilliant people out there building real value in products that solve real problems and services the world genuinely needs… and they can’t get the technical support they deserve to make it happen.

These are the people who create what the rest of us rely on and take for granted. They see what’s broken or not there, and they have the conviction to build it or fix it.

My Mission

From the beginning, my goal has been to back people who create value.

I believe businesses are one of the most powerful vehicles for change. People brave enough to build them deserve someone in their corner who genuinely gets it. Not just technically, but viscerally.

That’s what Comotion is built on. We help founders, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, product owners, and business leaders bring their plans to life through software and more.

My Path

In 2012, I co-founded Comotion Business Solutions (Comotion), originally a software development company. Comotion co-founded Seed Analytics right away.

Seed Analytics helps wealth advisors be world champions to their clients by telling data stories that help them grow their wealth. Seed Analytics provides these brokerages with deep, industry, and automated analytics and white labelled statements for their clients.

Comotion founded Comotion Dash, a data lake and data analytics product operating primarily in the life insurance and re-insurance markets. Dash takes the infrastructure and data scaling pain away from actuaries and analysts, allowing them to extract vast insights that help their companies grow.

Comotion founded Comotion LowCode, which offers Mendix, .NET and AI development services to help our clients build true value in the world through successful IT project implementations.

I also co-founded Academy of Coffee, a small two-shop chain of coffee stores. Academy of Coffee no longer operates but I haven’t lost my love for coffee.

Comotion co-founded HireBright, a cognitive ability test platform for the pre-employment process. HireBright then launched Raising Brightness, a pre-covid online education platform. I no longer have operational or board involvement with HireBright outside of Comotion management decision making. Comotion exited HireBright in 2025.

Comotion just launched comotion.ai, an AI analytics workspace for banks, insurers and reinsurers that turns complex data into audit-ready insights, with built-in governance, data lineage and regulatory controls so risk, finance and actuarial teams never lose oversight in the new AI-run world.

Currently, I run Comotion LowCode for the Comotion Group and also manage the marketing departments for both Seed Analytics and Comotion LowCode.

I serve on the Comotion and Seed Analytics boards.