Primary Job Title Founder/Managing Partner Primary Organization 
Second Line
Location New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male
Website www.secondline.com Facebook View on Facebook X (Twitter) View on X
Background: I have been best described as a serial entrepreneur and guru with strategy, management, and design. Over the last 15+ years, I launched several successful startups and consulted the worlds greatest companies, executives, and visionaries.
Human Networks: Human Networks grows organizations aligning strategy to management objectives
applying design concepts to maximize human touch points. Human Networks specializes in marketing, branding, strategic planning, change/transformation, portfolio/program/project management, process redesign, business model development, compliance/assurance, and IT management.
Second Line: Second Line is the first regionally-based Impact Investment Fund in the United States. Second Line is raising $10M investing in ideas creating social, economic, and environmental change. Second Line is also an accelerator. We partnered with leading consultancies accelerating market adoption applying narrative-driven, design-oriented business practices in our impact ventures. Second Line sponsored the Second Line conference in 2011 in partnership with New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation promoting the intersection of design, impact, innovation, and investment.
Mentorship: One my passions is mentoring entrepreneurs, activists, and community leaders. I work as a mentor for TED Fellows program. It is an amazing group of people. I am working with six fellows on strategy, business planning, product design, and fund raising. I am also working with Tulane and Loyola providing support to their entrepreneurship programs. In my spare time, I do jam sessions with budding entrepreneurs, social activists, and community leaders helping them position themselves and their organizations for crazy success.
