I have been working since before it was legal to. At seven I had a landscaping company, if you can call a kid with a mower and a lot of nerve a company. I knocked on doors for lawns to mow, and when it snowed I worked the block shoveling driveways.Through high school I ran shifts at the local ice cream shop for four years, bused tables, and picked up construction work on the side. In college I waited tables and trained clients at a gym while carrying a full load.

I graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in three years, summa cum laude. That final spring I landed on Wall Street at Forte Capital Group, a firm selling shares of late-stage private companies to high-net-worth investors. I passed my Series 7 and Series 66 in my first month. For the next year I worked on a five-person team responsible for a book north of $100 million, offering access to private positions in companies like SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Anduril, and Shield AI. The kind of names most people only read about.

I left to build something of my own. I had wanted to be in real estate since I read Rich Dad Poor Dad in high school, and I see property as one of the great wealth-building assets. Today I originate mortgages and run Veld Financial, the practice I am building to sit across every part of a person's financial life.