“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming…” – The Man in the Arena
After growing up with a single mother who worked nonstop to make ends meet and seeing the massive/growing income challenges in the U.S., I am happy to be leading a passionate team on building Steady.
Steady helps its Members to supplement their incomes and receive ongoing digital advice on how to reach their income potential and improve their overall financial health, guiding over $500 million of incremental and attributable earnings for its Members in 2019 and has recently facilitated the distribution of millions of dollars of emergency cash grants to low income Americans most heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
I am proud to be a recognized advocate and thought leader for part-time, contract, hourly and gig workers, having appeared to discuss the many challenges facing these tens millions of hard working Americans on MSNBC, CNBC, Yahoo! Finance, Cheddar and published in the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Barron’s, The Daily Beast, Forbes, Newsweek, Glassdoor amongst others. I have also had the opportunity to serve as a return guest speaker on Financial Inclusion at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, as a return speaker at SXSW, Financial Health Network (CFSI) Emerge, Money20/20, Collision, Quarantine Summit, LendIt and many other tech and financial services conferences.
I am proud of my years of ups and downs / battle scars as a young entrepreneur, learning as I went. I am passionate about facilitating income enhancement, and spent years focused on economic development in developing markets.
I spent 9 years building and investing in businesses in China, the most challenging years of my life, including 6 years working to help stimulate economic and jobs growth in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities of China with a focus on investing heavily in renewable energy to lower China’s out of control carbon footprint.
I spent the first 6 years of my career in investment banking, working on M&A and corp. finance transactions, primarily at Lehman Brothers and Barrington Associates (acquired by Wells Fargo).
I am thankful to have served on the Board of various non-profit/charitable organizations including the L.A. Tourism & Convention Board, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and Los Angeles and U.S. Doctors for Africa.
