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I am a lifelong resident of Connecticut and spent the better part of my youth fishing on LI Sound. My dad was a biology teacher in Stamford and gave me my earliest taste of the marine environment. Both my parents are avid botanists and mycologists. Professionally... I spent the first 15 years of my professional life on Wall Street at a couple of the worlds most successful hedge funds. I was chief trader in FX, fixed income and commodities for George Soros at Quantum fund from 1984 to 1988 and worked as an economic and commodity analyst for Louis Bacon at Moore Capital from 1988 to 1994. After that I spent two years as a commodity analyst under Mike Aronstein at West Course Capital. At West Course I did some venture capital analysis on several aquaculture investments thanks to my interest in fishing and fisheries. I eventually took a job at one of them (Aquafuture). Working at Aquafuture (now Australis http://www.australis.us/ ) helped me establish the four rules of aquaculture and set me on a path to find a way to actually make an aquaculture venture commercially successful. Through sheer chance, I ended up meeting Jim Markow in the spring of 1999 and started CT Cultured Oysters shortly thereafter.

I now split my time between capital market endeavors; working for FXA and managing a small pool of capital for a long time friend and market associate, which keep me in close touch with the world of finance, and my cultured oyster farm operation, which allows me to get away. I live in Pawcatuck, Connecticut with my wife Jill my daughter Sydney and my boy Asher. I consider myself a "true" environmentalist. I still love to fish though I am less frantic about it these days.