Highlights of my life — personal and professional — in reverse order. The things worth remembering.
We closed and announced a $54M Fund III and later in the year, Dynamo Fund I clocked in >1.00x DPI.
#myBudHud really showed a passion and talent for baseball with his debut on our community's All Star team.
We welcomed our third child, and second son, #ellisExcelsior on the evening of Easter Sunday, about a month ahead of plan.
My wife and I welcomed #ladyLanie #fancyDelancey to the world. She’s a lamb compared to her brother, a real lion.
My wife convinced me to buy a 71 year old home and renovate it. As stressful as it was, it was definitely also fun.
Our grounds total nearly 2 acres and as a result, I’ve grown to enjoy gardening and select landscaping activities.
In the Spring, I began advising Happy Valley Capital, a Penn State student organization focused on education their membership on startups and venture capital.
In June, Jon Bradford joined Dynamo as our fourth Partner after serving as an Advisor since our inception - huge level up for the whole team.
In January, my wife and I welcomed our son, #myBudHud to the world.
In March, enjoyed a two-weekend wedding celebration where Melissa and I got married.
In the fall, earned Forbes 30 Under 30 accolades for Venture Capital.
Co-founded Dynamo Ventures, a supply chain and mobility seed fund.
I joined Lamp Post Group in Chattanooga, TN, as part of a grand experiment — Lamp Post Labs, an innovation lab. In December, I transitioned to my current role and began laying out the roadmap for Dynamo.
I grew restless and had decided to further explore Product Management and joined General Assembly’s Product Management program in NYC.
I left my first job at Citi and joined Wells Fargo to learn about the technology sector at a deeper level. Specifically, my team covered the IT Hardware & Wireless Equipment industries.
I also spent the year (2009–2010) as a Donor Relations Captain for Penn State Dance MaraTHON. I’m a proud alumn of the world’s largest student-run philanthropy focused on aiding families fighting pediatric cancer.
In May, graduated from Penn State with a BS Finance and Minor Information Systems Management and promptly joined Citi’s Investment Banking program where I joined the Insurance practice.
My cofounders and I sold Bullish Bankers for 4.0x our initial investment after deciding to pursue careers on Wall Street out of college. 2009 also marked a year where I helped oversee the IT allocation for The Nittany Lion Fund, outperforming the S&P 500 IT Benchmark by 6.37%.
Along with three other classmates, I cofounded and sold Bullish Bankers, a financial community after spending a summer at Wachovia (now Wells Fargo) in international operations. Bullish Bankers did well by any standard with a wide syndication and partnership with Jim Cramer’s TheStreet.com.
I was the sole Sophomore to compete in the impromptu case competition, The Next CEO and took third place against a field of ten other preeminent juniors and seniors at Smeal. The Next CEO presented a series of strategic scenarios that were framed by CSIS’s The Seven Revolutions to which participants responded. The program was judged by executives from a variety of Fortune 500 companies.
I enrolled at Penn State after graduating from River Hill High School. After getting a swift kick to the head from reality, I reset, refocused, and became The Nittany Lion Fund’s first Fund Administrator.
I wound down Razor Studios, a business I had founded to provide technology support to small businesses and consumers.
I learned HTML in 6th grade and coded my first site from scratch on the history of Hershey Chocolate. Previously, in 1998, I had built a webpage using Netscape Composer to present my learnings regarding The War of 1812.
I was first exposed to code by my Dad who booted up the BASIC interpreter on a Compaq Presario in 1995.