Finance, with a human core.

I was raised in Miami and began my career in banking here, eventually working my way into private banking and private wealth management. Along the way, I worked through bank mergers, helped a growing bank establish itself in Miami and spent years alongside entrepreneurs who had already built substantial businesses.

Many of our conversations were about the long view: succession, estate planning, wealth, family and what would happen to what they had spent decades building. Hearing what mattered when owners were thinking about the later stages of their journey gave me an early appreciation for the systems, decisions and relationships that allow something valuable to endure.

Eventually, I left banking to start building something myself. I moved to Singapore and found myself working alongside founders creating businesses from the ground up. More than any single venture or program, being part of that community of entrepreneurs shaped how I learned to build.

I helped founders understand term sheets and prepare for investor conversations, worked with Lean Startup methodology and customer interviews to separate assumptions from real problems, and participated in leadership programs across Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Different countries, cultures and businesses brought different stories, but many of the underlying questions were remarkably similar. The work taught me to listen before solving, ask better questions and understand the person and context behind a business problem.

I had spent years alongside established entrepreneurs thinking about the future of businesses built over decades, then worked alongside founders at the very beginning. What increasingly interested me was the messy middle: what happens after something starts working, when the business, its systems and the owner all have to keep evolving together.

At that stage, coaching and strategy alone are not enough if the books, reporting and financial workflows cannot support the decisions being made. The financial foundation has to become as dependable as the business it is meant to support.

The work that became Explr began in Asia through supporting entrepreneurs and came full circle when I returned to Miami. Today, I bring together what I learned in banking, private wealth, startups and working across cultures to help owners build stronger financial operations and make clearer decisions as their businesses grow.

The numbers are where the work becomes concrete, not where it ends. Reliable accounting and reporting create the foundation for better conversations about growth, hiring, risk, ownership, priorities and the life the business is meant to support. Our work isn’t about making every business bigger. It’s about helping people build businesses that work better, endure uncertainty and support what matters most to them.