Most people call me Spin.

Chicago raised, Nashville based, and honestly just wired a little different than most people you'll meet in a business setting. I talk to everybody like we grew up on the same block. I care too much. And I have never once been able to stop myself from making an introduction I can see needs to happen, whether anybody asked me to or not.

Turns out I was never really a recruiter.

I got my start in technology recruiting, and it didn't take long to figure out I wasn't really a recruiter at all. I was an advocate. I was the guy who understood what somebody had actually built, what they were really capable of, and what their real story was. And then I walked into rooms and made sure the right people heard it.

That's still the job. Everything since grew out of that.

I've been in the rooms where these hires happen.

I've built partnerships, opened markets, and run corporate development. But most of what I do is search, putting people in seats from the C-suite down to the folks actually knocking out the work. That range matters. It's the difference between knowing a market in theory and knowing it because you personally put the people in those chairs.

I don't do professional theater.

The best business gets done when people act like people, and I mean that pretty literally. Real conversations. Real trust. Real relationships that don't expire the second a deal closes.

I've always believed the way people feel about working with you is the whole game. So that's what I'm thinking about on every search. How did the candidate feel when we hung up? How did the client feel when the shortlist landed? If the answer isn't "great," I've got more work to do.

A connector. A storyteller. The guy who knows a guy.

I've been called a recruiter, a fixer, a coach, a strategist, and more than once "the guy who somehow knows a guy." Probably all fair. At the end of the day I'm a connector. I see the pattern before most people do, and I can't help myself from saying something about it.

And so yeah, that's me. If that sounds like somebody you want in your corner, you know where to find me.