This is sort of my notes app -- a place where you can learn a bit about things I've done and what I'm currently working on.

Me as a VC

The Mother Years

Oceans of Talent

New is old

Daycast

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True story. I co-founded Oceans Talent, an off-shore recruiting and staffing company that taps the best talent from Sri Lanka. This is thanks to the vision, leadership, and pure hustle of my friend and frequent collaborator, Ian Myers.

This business ended up not being so foreign to me (pun intended). From the beginning, we focused on building an employee culture that translated into a great client experience. Easier said than done, and the credit all goes to Ian and the team. Below: a few fun facts and pictures from travels to Sri Lanka.

--> Oceans is one of the largest employers in Sri Lanka (team ~1,000)

-->Oceans serves ~350 clients -- largely early and growth stage companies

-->I look great in a tunic.

Being part of New Stand will forever be a defining part of my career and life experience. My co-founders and I had a bold vision for blending retail and media. At a time when the world was pushing 'content to commerce', we were pushing 'commerce to content' — using our stores and app to intro people to cool new things. We REALLY went for it — over $50M raised, partnership with the largest real estate company in the world, and a number of big pivots. We saw some great success. But we also made too many mistakes…and Covid kinda put the nail in the coffin. New Stand has been restaged and has helped to form a new venture, Daycast. I am forever grateful to my co-founders, employees, investors, advisors, partners for helping me get this incredible experience. The biggest shout-out goes to my wife Heather, who road a rollercoaster with me for ten years without complaining too much.

In my previous career, I spent countless hours reviewing, debating, and refining ideas for clients—evaluating whether concepts were truly "breakthrough" or “on strategy”. We could easily spend six months developing a brand positioning or campaign for a new energy drink.

All that effort was before production where we'd then spend months (and often millions of dollars) obsessing over details like casting, typography, music selection, or the opinions of a CMO’s nephew. Sometimes all that effort produced a hit. Sometimes it failed completely. More often, the result landed somewhere in between.

I’ve yet to see anything approaching the same level of focus that’s routinely applied to consumer or customer marketing applied to employee experience. It’s not that employees are an afterthought. Rather, there is no comparable ecosystem of resources dedicated to helping companies connect meaningfully with their employees.

Today, organizations looking to improve employee engagement are forced to choose between partners that don't span strategy and execution. There's 'big consulting' (eg. Accenture) offering high-level strategy disconnected from implementation, or there's 'big hospitality' (eg. Aramark) providing logistics without strategic depth.

In between sits a fragmented collection of point solutions: offsite planners, survey providers, gifting companies, and countless others that organizations must stitch together and manage themselves. And, almost none bring meaningful creative ideas or capabilities to the table.

It’s with this gap in mind that I’m launching Daycast.

Daycast brings agency-level strategy, creativity, and execution to workplace experience—partnering with leadership, HR, and facilities teams to thoughtfully elevate the employee experience.