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I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and moved west in 2003 to study International Business at the University of Denver, where I met my wife. I spent the next several years in Denver working in finance before making the move to Vail. My first significant project here was the capital raise for what became Solaris Residences, an $80+M raise that began in 2010 and funded part of the project at the heart of Vail Village.
When construction was completed in 2013, we moved to Vail. I founded Elevation Resort Management (ERM) to serve as a fiduciary, driving rental sales for our company's limited partners and building ownership. During those years, both of our children were born at Vail Valley Medical Center, and we bought a home in Minturn. Since its inception, ERM has booked more than $45M in gross rental sales, and we continue to help renters looking to spend time in the valley.
Real estate is one of two businesses I built over the last decade in the Valley. The other was hospitality. For more than ten years I was an owner and operator with Elevation Vail Partners, the restaurant group behind Fall Line Kitchen, Crespelle, White Bison, and Pendulum. We've since sold the restaurants, but the years spent running them shaped and grew me profoundly. A decade of feeding the guests coming to Vail and the locals who live here has changed the way I approach everything. Most of the strongest relationships I have in Vail came from conversations on Bridge Street in front of our restaurants, or on a chair lift.
As the 19 units our company owned sold over the last 10 years, ERM evolved as well. Rentals are now structured as wholesale arrangements with the Four Seasons Private Residences, Solaris, the Sonnenalp, One Willow Bridge, and The Sebastian, along with privately rented homes and condos in Vail Village. We place a small number of families directly into these buildings each season, and many of those families become the families I help acquire homes from.
The renter-to-buyer pipeline that started informally has become the practice itself. $31M+ closed in private acquisitions so far in 2026 alone. The work is narrower than what most luxury agents offer: a small number of families, longer conversations, the patience for multi-year decisions. Most of my clients are American, Mexican, and Latin American families thinking about generational ownership in the Valley.