Hi there 👋, I’m JP.
Sunday, Unedited is where I write without a client, a brief, or an outcome in mind.
During the week, I build and document the strategies that help companies grow. I’ve spent years writing the documents that get companies funded and get strategy out of someone’s head and onto a page a stranger can actually act on.
On Sundays, I write for me. No editing pass, no client name on it, no agenda. Sometimes that’s life design. Sometimes it’s whatever I’m building. Occasionally it’s the work itself — what I’m learning from building and documenting the strategies that help companies grow, what actually makes a deal fundable, what I wish someone had told me a decade ago.
My Professional Life
Current Senior Director of Strategy and former Senior Director of Product Management where I lead the largest product build in Jack Henry’s 50+ year history
Led Product Go-to-Market for a $12B publicly-traded company
Startup analyst and investor through the Community Equity Partners investor syndicate
former 💼 C-level (Chief Lending Officer) executive in the banking industry
Led the 🥇top Small Business Administration (SBA) lender in my state for 4️ consecutive years
Marketing degree and have run the Marketing Department for a $230,000,000 organization
Masters in Entrepreneurship, graduating with a 4.0
Have helped entrepreneurs raise over 💵 $800,000,000 💵 in funding between both debt and equity facilities
3x startup founder 📈. Each named “first-mover” in their respective industries
Recognized for innovation in the banking industry for my Line12 venture debt fund
Recognized as the 🏆 top executive in my industry in 2014
Regular pitch competition judge 🧠 and incubator mentor
Former Board member and Managing Director of the Fairview Technology Incubator 🚀
Former Board member to one of the first healthcare co-ops in the United States
Former Board member of the second-largest credit agency in the United States
My Personal Life
Proud husband and father 👨👩👧
Full marathon runner 🏃🏻♂️, trail runner, and mountain biker 🚵🏻♂️
Former mixed martial artist (MMA) 🥊 and undefeated in my weight class; trained in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under the Gracie family 🤼 ; 1996 State Karate Champion 🥋
Have coached multiple people through massive weight loss (50+ pounds)
Love playing video games as well as collecting things like Magic the Gathering cards and Baseball Cards
