My InvestmentS

Since leaving the corporate mainstream in 2000, I’ve been really fortunate to become a serious student of business models and to have been introduced to thousands of business plans across almost every industry imaginable. To date, I’ve invested in over 60 of them, before retiring from active angel investing in 2022. Currently, I'm in about six deals and am engaged at various levels as they play out. Angel investing has been a special part of the journey for now 25+ years: less so now, but I still wake up every morning, and each day is different.  Angel investing has given me the gift of experiential variety, but, in all frankness, angel investing can be crazy-making, and now I’m ready to get these remaining deals behind me as I head into the sunset!

I've been chairman and lead investor in two startups that Fortune 500 companies have acquired: Internet retailer BUYSEASONS, which owns and manages the largest retailer of costumes in the world, BuyCostumes.com (sold to Liberty Media in 2006), and ModernMed. This healthcare services company was sold to DaVita in 2012. I was also the largest angel investor in Propeller Health, which was sold to ResMed.

My personal LLC is ETR Group, LLC, which previously owned and managed the world's largest Christmas-specific portal, Christmas.com.

Current Investments