Hi there 👋, I’m JP.

Welcome to my Growth Strategies newsletter. Every week I’m sharing the growth strategies I’ve learned across over $300M in product launches and $800M in fundraising for companies, with a heavy splash of life design.

Below is a bit more about me.

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