Who me?

I was born in southern California. I grew up in the rolling hills of suburbia outside Los Angeles and also in the cowboy and mining mountains of southwest Colorado. I attended a boarding high-school akin to Dead Poets Society or Harry Potter – depending on your generation – and finished my education in Santa Barbara amongst some of the dumbest and smartest people known.

Trying to make my way as a fine artist crushed my attorney father’s soul. I succeeded, showing in galleries and even a museum or two, when the un-passable opportunity to move to Europe and ‘really find myself’ fell from the heavens.

I partnered with my brother and opened a design firm that worked with the biggest to the smallest, the funnest to the most dull, the richest to the poorest across the world over.

For the next 20 years I designed, moved a few times, fell in love, moved again, got married, designed some more, sculpted the perfect dad-bod, and landed amongst the lucky and perversely talented at Philips Experience Design.

I live an earful-of-seals-barking away from the royal zoo in the center of Amsterdam. My amazing wife and I both agree we have the best son the planet has ever known, and ride around the city on our electric bicycle in search of decent Mexican food, fine footwear, and spontaneous dances upon bar-tops.