Nov 16, 2021 5 min read

Major in economics with a double minor in finance and marketing.

Graduate of McKeesport

My dad is a businessman. he’s been a big influence on me. he has helped me a lot through my journey.

Leadership has always been important to me. I’ve always felt like a natural born leader. That’s why I started my own business and I try to take control of things as much as possible. 

Counselors in Talent Search program

Truly I was inspired by what they offered me. Wants to stay involved with TRIO throughout his life. 

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i’m trying to do as much good as I canb for the community. 

The CEO and founder of Finfo, the financial info you need. It’s a financial literacy platform that’s currently being used at Cal U., Clairon and Edinboro to educate our students on financial literacy and the Business 100 course. 

I’ve seen unreal success. Graduating with the founders institute, which has been equated to an MBA. I started in April and graduated in July. I was accepted into the Washington D.C. and the Silicon valley Cohort of the institute.

 It’s a seed accelerator for these tech companies and they help you get off the ground

It was amazing. I met so many amazing people. I got the opportunity to work with Ben Young, who had the biggest investment ever in shark tank 

I’m talking about a weekly basis, working with these types of people. That actually led me to the point where I’m at now. In January, I’ll actually me finishing the paperwork to have my company acquired. When I graduate in May, I’ll come on to this separate company as they’ll become the parent organization and I’ll become the CMO of that organization and I’ll be doing retail marketing through their retail channels with this platform that I’ve developed. It’s almost like a social network for students, young people who are my age to be connected with people who know this financial literacy. On top of that we actually doo offer a white label financial literacy product

It’s been so cool. I’ve learned so much, not just about financial literacy, but about building businesses about the startup process and investement, just so many different things.

Originally committed to NYU. Bill was way too much. Committed to Emery University in Atlanta. Great economics school. Bill was way too much.

Went to Cal U on a baseball scholarship. Two weeks in, I realized I was spending 40-50 hours a week playing baseball when my goal in the long term was to be a business owner. I saw the opportunity to get started in real estate with one of my friends. He was going to teach me about investment. I’ve got to take this opportunity. I started working at a factory. over night 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and going to class and doing nothing but educating myself about business.

While a student at Shippensburg, came up with the idea of Finfo, a mobile platform that talks all about financial literacy – everything financial literacy in one spot for young people to go to. That was 2 1/2 years ago. From that day on, I’ve ben doing research. 

Partnered with leader of the center of innovation – Mark lennon at Cal UJ. Helped me trmendously with my research and pushed me into going into the Founders Institute, which was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. People equate it to an MBA because it is so rigorous and it’s in such a small time frame. 35 people started in the course when we began, four of us graduated.  I was so determined. 

People said it was over for him when he didn’t go to NYU.

I didn’t want to let that happen. I worked so hard to make it not that way. I’ve done pretty well so far. I’m really happy about it.  

We do multi-level marketing. I’m doing research with this parent company which is going to be bringing me on to their team. 

I wrote an 18-page paper for fun on the Robin Hood effect. people my age now, who are like me. They’re interested in it. I’m getting the Alex Daltons at the Penn States at the West Virginias at the Ohio States and they’re coming onto our team and they’re marketing for us.

Whe n januaryt comes around and I’m fully assimilated into this team and I graduate from school, I’ll have the abilioty to pour my full timke into it. I’m really excited where we’re going to be. It’s going to be awesome.

I got $5,000 to put toward my business and once I got trough the Founder’s Institute, I have seen an unreal amount of support. I haven’t raised anymore money, because I don’t need it. Being acquired by this company they will have venture capital invested in them which I will have at my discretion as soon as I come on as the CMO. I’m onlty 20 years old I don’t want $100,000 or half a million to put inbto this business when frankly I could screw it up. I’m going to go with this team of great people.

Introiduced me to lawers and 

I’ll have that money at my discreytion.

Hoping to move to new York city when i graduate,. This parent company wouold olike me to move out therer tyo be closer to Wall Street because we’re in the finacial sector and I’ve got a couple of connections out there founderfs institute that can get me out there. What I’d alos like to do is get my securities licensing. i really have a pasion for financ and finacial litercay because that’s what pushed me into this. i really love investing. I really love real estateI really love the stock market. I’m up at night thinking about this, 

It’s been a wild ride. It’s been fun.