About

Born in Miami, Fl. Raised in Boca Raton. Live my life in Atlanta.

Growing up in South Florida, I learned that nothing in life worth having comes easy. After graduating high school in 1995, I first attended Florida State for a year before transferring home to Florida Atlantic University. While there, I tried my hand at many different subjects but ultimately focused my major on Communications with a minor in Journalism. I was also the president of Alpha Tau Omega my senior year and made many long-lasting friendships.

After college, I began my career working for Keiser University as a Community Relations Coordinator but quickly decided that my future would have to be away from the area I had known my whole life. I decided to move to Atlanta and found that I truly enjoyed people-centric work; first becoming an Assistant Director for BBYO Inc (a high school student leadership organization) and then getting promoted to the Regional role back in Fort Lauderdale. However, by that point, I had already met the woman who would become my wife and mother of my three beautiful kids. I came back to Georgia and worked at UGA as the Program Director for Hillel International and then moved on to the second part of my career.

I wanted a career that combined the ability to use my ever growing repertoire of sales skills with a chance to help save someone’s life. I tried my hand at senior living but I was too young to understand the true nature of what it meant to care for a loved one so I took the opportunity to become a General Manager for an architectural representation company called CAMCO Inc. CAMCO allowed me the chance to learn about construction, project management, architectural design and estimating while also allowing me to essentially run my own company, hire and train my own salespeople, prepare my own budgets, acquire new product lines, attend trade shows, and work with truly interesting people. It wasn’t saving lives but I was proud that our products were being used in low-income housing, military bases, and college dorms. The housing crash after 2010 truly took the enjoyment away and by 2013, I decided to try senior living again; a decision that has been wonderful for me since that point.

My first stop was for Sunrise Senior Living, where I was exposed to an incredible training regiment that helped me fully understand what my role needed to be; a liaison between the family and the community. After increasing occupancy by 41% over the course of a year (winning the Horizon award for community occupancy increase 3 times), I was recruited to Belmont Village in 2014. Belmont was where I became the sales leader I am today. I took a community that had just lost both salespeople and was languishing around 70% occupancy, to 90% by the end of my first year. From 2015 through late 2017, we reached 100% occupancy for an East Coast record 18 straight months. I thought I would be at Belmont for my entire career but in 2018, they decided to sell their Atlanta properties. Rather than start new with a company I didn’t know, I decided to move on to Jewish HomeLife; which had been recruiting me for a number of years. I came to JHL with the understanding that I would be promoted to the Regional role as soon as I got the occupancy up at one of the communities that had been struggling since opening a few years earlier. By late 2019, I got the community to 100% and by early 2020, I was named to the Regional role. The pandemic hit the industry hard but my sales teams were still able to hit and exceed move in metrics throughout the past two years. In June 2022, I was able to land my dream job as the Regional Director of Sales & Marketing for Integral Senior Living but that role was also to be short lived. After learning a new skill set in a Business Development Role for Advantage Private Home Care (my first foray into the private duty home care sector), I went back to my roots as the Regional Admissions Director for the senior living communities of Pruitt Health . It’s been a great career so far and I’m always looking forward to growing professionally.

My wife Jennifer and I live in Alpharetta along with our three children; Hailey, Isabella, and Kyle. We enjoy hanging out with friends, going to parks, movies, and I’m teaching them all to love Miami-based sports teams (for better or for worse) and 1980’s rock music.