I’m an entrepreneur, consultant, traveler and food enthusiast. In 2005, I bought ExchangeHut.com, after my freshman year at the University of Wisconsin, and transformed it from a local tickets and textbooks trading platform with under 2,000 users to a profitable national business with over 125,000 users by the time I was a senior, leading to its acquisition by a publicly traded company in 2008.
During my 2nd senior year, I teamed up with Jesse Davis to co-found Entrustet.com. Entrustet is a secure online service that allows you to create a list of your online accounts and digital files and then manage their distribution and deletion in the event of your death. You can read about how we founded Entrustet on the Entrustet company blog.
I am very interested in showing people that entrepreneurship is a potential choice for young people and that college is the best time to start a company. I enjoy speaking to people my age about my experience to try to give them the entrepreneurial push toward either starting a company or working for a startup. In May 2009, I founded Capital Entrepreneurs to bring the burgeoning startup community in Madison closer together. For more info about what I’ve been up to for the last ten years, check out this post. If you’d like to contact me, send me a note through on my contact page.
Honors
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Named one of the Top 40 entrepreneurs Under 40 in Dane County by “In Business Magazine” |
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Nominated three times for Global Student Entrepreneur Award |
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Placed in the top 25 in the Governor’s Business Plan Competition |
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Fourth Place in Burrill Business Plan Competition and winner of Students’ Choice Award |
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Advisor to the new Entrepreneurship dorm at University of Wisconsin |
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Testified before Congressional Committee about the rising costs of textbooks and what ExchangeHut was doing to help. Read more |
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Panelist at Wisconsin Entrepreneur Conference |
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Invited to launch of Facebook Developer Platform, F8 |
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Panelist at Wiscontroprenuer forum |
