Get to know me…

I’m an entrepreneur with 2x exists (so far), lots of strikeouts, angel investor, former venture capitalist, and worked in Marketing at America Online.

I started my professional career on the Internet in 1996 as the Founder/CEO of Worldwide Angler, Inc. Worldwide Angler became the #1 social networking and e-commerce site for sport fisherman on the Internet.  I bought the company back from the investors in 2001, re-branded it, and led it to a successful exit a decade later.

My career has taken me from working at America Online when it was the largest Internet company in the world, working at two venture capital firms, starting a CRM company that turned into an intelligence platform backed by In-Q-Tel, running a software engineering company serving the DOD and other USG customers(exit) to serving as the CFO and COO of a bond management company with $700 million AUM.

To keep busy while finding what’s next, I’m working on building the worlds best contacts manager called Trevally to fix a problem my wife and I have had that no one seems to have solved yet.

I live Half Moon Bay, CA with my wife and two dogs.

When not at the mic or keyboard you can find me riding my road bike zipping up and down the California coast 🚴‍♂️

Education

• MBA from UNC, Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School
• Masters in Psychology from Washington College (Psi Chi National Honor Society)
• BA in Psychology from Washington College (President of the Psi Chi National Honor Society, Honors Thesis, NCAA Sports Writer Scholarship)
• Post Graduate work at Stanford University: Certified Expert Tiny Habits Coach – B.J. Fogg, Stanford’s Behavioral Design Lab
• High school: The Boys’ Latin School of Maryland

Volunteer Work/Associations/Other

• Marine Ventures Foundation (2001- present) – Board Member
• Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee (2022- present) – Chairman, City of Half Moon Bay, CA
• Hacking for Defense (H4D) – Management Science & Engineering- Stanford University – Mentor (2016 – present)
• Future Enterprisers (2022 – present) – Founder, teaching high school students how to build a business plan and start a business
• Outdoor Writers Association on America (1996- present) – Member
• Author:  Back of the Napkin to…Business Plan in 11 Slides. So easy you can do it on a flight from San Francisco to New York.
  (#1 Amazon Best Seller)
  
• Maryland Sport Fish Advisory Commission (2009-2013) – Commissioner, appointed by the Governor of Maryland
• US Patent Holder
• Academic Published Author – Navy Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA: Understanding Warfighters’ Personal Identifiable Information (PII)
  Derived from Publicly Available Information (PAI)
• A Changing Delta – Short Film, Aired on PBS, Film Festivals Selection, Producer,  watch for free here
• Keeping Country – Short Film, Film Festivals Selection, Producer, watch for free here
• Angel Investing:

  STAQ – Big data company. (Acquired)
  Modern Picnic – the worlds most fashionable lunchbox.
  Knightscope – Autonomous Security Robots (ASRs) powered by AI. (Went public: $KSCP)
  Halé Financial – bringing aloha to the lender and mortgage business.

• Podcast Network: Top 100 Ranked Podcasts: The Brandon White Show, Productivity, Marketing, Business Plan, Real Estate
• EDGE Email Newsletter: Weekly email newsletter that 15,000+ people rely on for an edge to achieve their best selves in business and life.

Speaking Topics

• Business plan and how to build one
• Digital Media
• AI, machine learning, emerging technology and it’s applications
• Marketing (financial modeling, SEO, social media, email, podcasting, video, direct marketing)
• Digital Operations
• Venture Capital / Angel Investing
• Pitch deck creation to raise money from investors
• How to raise money from investors at each of the different rounds (Pre-seed, A, B, C, D, public markets) of capital raises
• Entrepreneurship
• Productivity Systems and Operations
• For more information on having me speak at your event please visit my keynote speaker page.

Fun

Latest Biking Adventures
Grand Fondo & Century Finishes:

• Death Ride, Tour of the California Alps (14,000′ of climbing,  103 miles, over six (6) HC Alpine climbs)(California)
• Garrett County Diabolical Double (126.2 miles over 16,500 feet of climbing)(Maryland)
• Levi’s Gran Fondo (Growler, 137.95 miles over 13,604 feet of climbing)(California)
• Terrible Two (200k, 121 miles over 11,284 feet of climbing) (California)
• Jensie Gran Fondo (California)
• Wine Country Century (California)
• Seagull Century (Maryland)
• and many others…

Fishing/Fly Fishing

• Check my fishing page.