About

Currently, I am the President of RACO Manufacturing & Engineering. I feel an enormous sense of pride stewarding this company, now in its 76th year. RACO offers remote monitoring hardware and software to a variety of industrial markets, but mostly water and wastewater.

Prior to becoming the owner of RACO, I founded Verdo Capital to serve as an investment vehicle for a business acquisition. Verdo is named after my grandfather who had the same name and was a savvy entrepreneur in the 30’s and 40’s. His legacy was Newman & Holmes, a local paint, glass, and flooring store in northern NY. My family owned and managed that store for over 80 years.

Follett acquired the company that I was at prior to Verdo Capital, Valore. During my time at Follett, I was the VP of B2B within the wholesale division of the company.

The startup journey at Valore was formative for me. Startups are never quite what you expect. Ultimately I had full P&L responsibility for our primary business with a heavy focus on product.

I didn’t get into the game expecting to be a product guy, but my love for great products and my passion for understanding and solving complex customer problems led me there.  Valore was a Boston-based e-commerce marketplace that took aim at the archaic textbook industry.  Everyone has a story about how much it sucks to buy textbooks and how little you get back for it at the end of your class. We tried to change all of that.

Before coming to Valore (formerly known as SimpleTuition – the pre-cursor to Valore), I got my MBA at Harvard, did content acquisition for Hulu, developed a small business training program in Central America for TechnoServe, and spent the first four years of my career doing strategy and operational consulting to big tech/telco firms at Deloitte Consulting.

I believe in giving back to the community and/or paying it forward.  Plus, we can never have too many smart, collaborative, and ambitious people on our team.  So, reach out and connect.  You never know what might happen.

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