I’m co-founder of AskForIt.com, a social networking site that helps people get what they want, founded on Rene Girard’s insights about mimetic desire.

I also currently work as the CEO of Scrapbook.com, the world’s largest and most-visited online website and store for paper-crafting enthusiasts. I have worked in this capacity for seven years.

I worked as an Analyst for the investment bank Goldman Sachs designing, among other things, new-hire training and continuing education programs and I ran the Analyst Training Program for the the Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities Division.

I managed touring musical acts and have run an independent record label. Beginning with my junior year in college, I spent a decade recording, performing, and touring with a professional, award-winning a cappella group.

I spent two years teaching in Argentina, living and working primarily amongst the poor, and spent the majority of my time training and leading groups of up to 200 volunteers.

I have coached youth basketball teams and have served as a Boy Scout adult leader.

I majored in Philosophy at Brigham Young University and I pursued post-graduate work at New York University in the music business program (which I left early in order to manage a band full-time).

My writing has been published in several magazines.

I am married with five children and the majority of my free time is spent volunteering at my church.

I believe that none of the above matters if — right now – I am not doing my best to make the world a better place.