Years in the Commercial Real Estate Industry (CRE): 1
What motivated you to get involved in the CRE Industry? I’m here for the opportunity to fix a broken experience. I love building systems, growing teams
, solving complex problems, and yes (!) making money by delivering above-and-beyond quality that blows past industry expectations. Elk Horn Painting is my lab for that: we’re obsessed with superior customer experience, hard-nosed execution, and repeatable excellence. CRE gives me scale: multi-stakeholder, multi-asset, long-horizon work, so we can disrupt the status quo and prove that premium service and strong returns aren’t opposites; they’re the same play.
What is your proudest accomplishment thus far? I joined as a BD a year ago and now help steward the commercial team! It's been a fast climb, but the real win is what we’ve built together: with mentors who opened doors, PMs who tightened the handoffs, and field crews who make us look smart every day, we turned one-off jobs into a steadier, more predictable repaint program for our clients. Fewer surprises, cleaner closeouts, stronger relationships - that kind of growth and improvement makes me proud.
What are one or two professional aspirations or goals you have for the next 5 years? In 2026, my goal is to grow Elk Horn Painting’s Commercial Division to $3M in revenue while holding 35-45% gross profit, keeping rework under 2%, and earning top-tier client satisfaction. In 2027, I plan to roughly double that to about $6M without sacrificing margins, schedule reliability, or quality control. Over years three to five, once Colorado is fully dialed, I aim to replicate the model across the National Painting Group portfolio, launching equivalent commercial divisions and scaling with shared SOPs, centralized pricing/scheduling/QA, and a strong training bench, so we deliver a premium, repeatable client experience and durable profits at scale.
Which NAIOP Colorado/Corporate committees or forums have you been involved with? I’m active at NAIOP Colorado events and Developing Leaders programming, and I’m exploring where I can be useful! Likely Membership or Public Policy. If there’s a spot to roll up sleeves and add value, I’m in.
What career advice would you like to share that you wish you knew sooner? Don’t “wing it” on repeatable work, codify it. Price discipline beats charisma. And protect your calendar like it’s cap-ex: if it doesn’t move the asset or the relationship, it’s noise.
Share a fun/interesting fact about yourself. A few curveballs: at 24 I was hit by a car going 30+ mph and walked away; in college my acappella group (Tufts Beelzebubs) recorded the vocals for Glee’s “Dalton Academy Warblers”; and from 2015-2019 I lived as a Zen monastery monk; I was an organic market farmer during that same timeframe. Net result: I can harmonize, meditate, and fix a fence…preferably not all at once.
