I've stood on your stage.
Now I help run the business behind it.
The Music
Before I ever built a chart of accounts, I built a career on stage.
For nearly a decade, I toured and performed nationally as a guitarist and vocalist, backing artists with major-label histories across the Christian, country, folk-rock, and pop genres. I performed at international award shows, national festival stages, and release and radio shows in the Nashville market, including a night at a historic venue in downtown Franklin.
As co-owner of the independent label behind it, I later released a full-length album produced by a Grammy Award-winning producer whose credits include some of the biggest names in music. That meant learning PRO registration, publishing, distribution agreements, and royalty management — not as a consultant reading about it, but as the one living it.
The Business
Along the way, I discovered a second skill set that ran just as deep: building financial and operational systems for businesses that had outgrown their own back office.
Over the past several years, I've overseen accounting, compliance, payroll, and multi-entity financial structures for more than 80 businesses — from solo operators to organizations doing multiple millions of dollars in annual revenue. My credentials speak to my experience, from securities and investment licensing to fluency across the major accounting platforms in use today — but what actually sets my perspective apart is the sheer number of client realities I've worked through, each with its own mess to untangle and its own version of "normal." That's not something a textbook teaches; it's earned one client at a time. I approach financial systems the way I was trained to approach music: with precision, discipline, and an insistence on getting the fundamentals right.
Why C-Suite Exists
I started C-Suite because I kept seeing the same gap: talented people doing everything right creatively — songwriters, performers, producers, engineers, label owners — while the business side quietly worked against them. A tax deadline missed because no one was watching. A contract signed without understanding what it actually costs. Years of royalties that were never even claimed. Generalist bookkeepers and accountants don't know what a PRO is, let alone how to reconcile a royalty statement.
I built C-Suite to close that gap — for people who make and produce music and deserve a financial partner who's actually been in the room.
“Off-stage,” I'm a husband and father of three. Most of my time outside of work goes to the same place — my kids' activities, time outdoors as a family, weekend projects on our property, the occasional motorcycle ride, and a good book when things finally slow down. I hold a Bachelor of Music, earned summa cum laude — a degree that, in hindsight, was excellent training for a career spent listening closely and getting the details right.
Keeping that side of life strong has shaped how I think about business as much as anything I learned professionally. I've come to believe the same thing is true for a career or a company: it only works long-term if it's actually built to be sustainable, not just survived.
