Licensed Trail Guide | WFR | Photographer | Investor

Currently building Upstate Hiking into the premier hiking guide service in New York's Hudson Valley and Catskills regions. We help everyone from individuals to large corporate groups safely and confidently explore the best of Upstate. We offer a variety of experiences in the mountains that can be customized for all skill levels - so whether a group wants to tackle a challenging climb, explore incredible waterfalls or just push a bit outside their normal comfort zone as part of a team-building or wedding weekend event, we guide them on just the right adventure (and take the photos to prove it!). I previously worked at a number of financial technology startups, most recently leading ecosystem partnerships at Mercury, the world's best banking stack for startups, and partnerships at Secfi, where we provided startups and their employees with education and financing to get the most value out of their equity. Prior to that I was the director of partnerships at Upgrade, where we combined consumer credit with free credit education tools to help people understand their credit potential and achieve more affordable credit in the long run, and held various business development and partnerships roles over the course of 5 years at NerdWallet after joining as employee #30. Many moons ago I also worked as the lead portfolio analyst on a $10B+ team in the Private Wealth Management division at Goldman Sachs and graduated from Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service, where I majored in International Economics.