Your Name — Builder, Strategist, Founder

My Story

Self-taught at 15.
Building ever since.

At 12, I sold glowsticks at concerts and made $8,000. Bought a 2006 KX100 with the money — spent every dollar on one asset instead of investing it. First business lesson learned the hard way.

By 15, I'd taught myself AutoCAD. At 17, I was working at an engineering firm. Graduated Civil Engineering Technology in 2013, then went back for a BBA in Finance in 2014 because I wanted to understand how capital and risk actually work.

While in school, I started a sport bike club that became the largest in Western Canada. That community became Tonit — a mobile app for motorcyclists. We scaled it to 450K+ users globally with partnerships including the Márquez brothers. It was messy, hard, and the best education I've ever had.

Today I'm a Senior Partner at JIRAH Growth Partners, advising companies on growth strategy, and building in the real estate technology space.

Now

Sr. Partner, JIRAH Growth Partners

Growth advisory. B2B, B2C, SaaS, real estate tech.

Tonit

Founder — 450K+ Users

Sport bike club to global app. Márquez partnership.

2014

BBA, Finance

Capital, risk, financial modeling.

2010–2013

Civil Engineering Technology

Systems thinking. Multiple engineering firms.

Age 12

First Business

$8K in glowstick sales. Bought a dirt bike.

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The Lesson That Changed Everything

Stay hyper-focused on one core offering and nail it.

At Tonit, I chased features, flipped business models, and spread the team thin. The companies that win do one thing exceptionally well before expanding. I learned this by doing the opposite. It informs every decision I make now.

The things that keep me sharp, grounded, and honest about what actually matters.

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Family

The reason I build and the reason I know when to stop. Every business decision filters through one question: does this build the life I want for the people I care about?

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Motorcycle Racing

Started with a KX100 at 12. Still on two wheels. Racing teaches commitment, risk assessment, and the cost of hesitation — in fractions of a second.

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Squash

Chess at 100mph. Strategy beats brute force. Staying composed when you're losing is the same skill you need in a startup going through a hard quarter.

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Travel

The best ideas come from outside your bubble. Different cultures, different problems, different solutions. It's the best market research there is.

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What I Believe

Perspectives that guide how I build

Real estate is the next major software frontier.

The industry is massive, fragmented, and still running on fax machines and handshakes. The companies that build the infrastructure layer for real estate transactions will be enormous.

Most startups die from indigestion, not starvation.

They try to do too much. The discipline to say no — to features, markets, partnerships — is the hardest and most valuable skill a founder can develop.

The best operators understand systems, not just business.

Engineering, biology, physics — the mental models from these fields apply directly to scaling companies. Most MBA thinking is too narrow. Systems thinking is the edge.

Community is the most underpriced asset in tech.

I turned a bike club into a 450K-user platform. Communities create distribution, loyalty, and feedback loops that paid acquisition can't replicate.

Currently

What I'm focused on right now

Building

Real estate technology

Advising Listingbox.io — rethinking how listings are created and distributed across CAN/USA markets.

Reading

Update with your book

Add what you're currently reading. Signals intellectual curiosity to VCs and execs.

Watching

AI infrastructure plays

How AI changes the real estate stack — from listing generation to market analysis to transaction workflows.

MobileCommunityGlobal

Tonit

Strava for motorcyclists. 450K+ users. Márquez brothers partnership.

Founded

AdvisoryGrowth

JIRAH Growth Partners

Growth advisory for companies at inflection points. B2B, B2C, SaaS.

Active

PropTechSaaSCAN/USA

Listingbox.io

Rethinking real estate listings across North American markets.

Advising

Coming Soon

What's Next

Real estate × technology × financial infrastructure.

Soon