A career spent connecting people, ideas, and opportunities.

I started at West Point, where I studied systems engineering and learned that most hard problems are people problems wearing a technical costume. From there I flew CH-47 Chinooks in the Army, including combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan — work that teaches you quickly what preparation, trust, and calm under pressure are actually worth. I later added an MBA from Drexel, though the Army had already covered the parts that matter most.

My turn at the burn barrels in Iraq — If you know, you know.

After the Army I spent two decades in aerospace and defense: nearly a decade at Boeing, leading business development and finance teams across the Chinook, Osprey, and Apache programs; senior roles at L3 Technologies; and more than seven years at General Digital, where I led business development as a vice president. The thread through all of it was the same — finding the right people, the right idea, and the right moment, and building something great.

What the work added up to

Two decades of being trusted with the deals that mattered — the programs, the customers, and the relationships that held long after the paperwork was signed.

• Business development and finance leadership across the Chinook, Osprey, Apache, and other vertical-lift programs during nearly a decade at Boeing, plus senior sales and marketing roles at L3 Technologies.
• More than seven years as Vice President of Business Development at General Digital — responsible for the strategy behind new business, sales, product development, and marketing.
• Founded Dunn Independent, a firm that placed junior military officers into corporate roles — early proof that the veteran-to-business lane was mine.
• Strategic advisor to Fovea Aero Systems, and an entrepreneur-in-residence with VXL, a platform that places veterans into small-business leadership.

In 2021 I took a different kind of step: I bought a small business. The Pursuit Goal Journal was a goal-planning journal I believed in enough to acquire outright — a path known as entrepreneurship through acquisition. More than 25,000 people have used it to chase something that mattered to them, and running it taught me as much about myself as about business.

The veterans community has been a constant through-line. I serve on veteran-focused boards across southern New Jersey and greater Philadelphia, I'm an entrepreneur-in-residence with a platform that places veterans into small-business leadership, and much of my current work is aimed at people making the same leap I once made — from military structure into a world that runs on different rules.