Welcome
Thanks for stopping by. I started this website a few years back when I had a full time desk job. I’m pretty much retired (whatever that means…) these days, but I occasionally help out friends and “special situations.” Like most execs, I’ve seen some crazy stuff over four decades in business, and as time goes by, I’ll share some of the craziness (some have to doctored up a bit to protect the suspects…hah!).
My Biography
I have had a fun and diverse career. I joke that I could never hold a steady job, and that worked out pretty well. My most recent full time role was as CEO of Westone Laboratories, a family-owned business in Colorado. After leaving Westone in late 2013 after selling the company to a private equity group, I was a CxO consultant to Charlotte’s Web Holdings, Inc., the US market leader in hemp-derived health and wellness products. Throughout my career, I have had a serial pattern of joining small businesses that are under-capitalized and under-managed, and trying to make good stuff happen.
I started my career with the Houston office of PwC (Price Waterhouse & Co. back in the day). After several years in the audit department of PwC, I joined several PwC alumni at a real estate development company that was developing First Colony, a 10,000-acre master planned community in southwest Houston. We had great legal counsel, and I learned a ton about contracts, purchase and sale agreements, financing documents, and so forth. I was CFO of this company until 1998, when we moved to Colorado for lifestyle reasons. For more on my business background, click the “Background and CV” tab at the top.
I grew up in East Texas – deep behind the “pine curtain.” I was a music major my first year in college, then I completely lost my mind and got an accounting degree. That degree and my years at PwC served as a great launching point for decades as an avid “business and numbers guy.”
Business and Executive Advisory Services
I am managing director of Alpine Advisory Group, a boutique consulting firm that specializes in growth management, turnarounds, and sale or recapitalization of small to middle market companies. I focus on undercapitalized or under-managed situations with unique value creation potential. I specialize in developing strategy, competitive advantage, and assembling a team that can drive execution to create sustainable value. Please contact me to discuss how I can help.
My Contact Information
You can contact me using the contact page on this site, or you can connect with me on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn.
Site Information
This blog is built on WordPress (self-hosted). I use the Genesis Eleven40 theme by StudioPress. Local web and SEO guru swanie helped me with the initial setup, plugin selection and general startup. The photographs on the site are either my personal iPhone photos, or they were obtained from iStockPhoto. The site is hosted by WP Engine.