While other kids played, I was moving gravel mountains with Tonka trucks and calling it business development. I didn't know it yet — but I was already in training.
The roots
I was born on the Sunshine Coast, in Gibsons and Sechelt. Losing my mother at three taught me resilience early, and turned me toward the thing that's steered me ever since: building — people, businesses, and the community around them.
The journey
I grew up following my father's construction career across BC, and it taught me a simple truth: moving dirt builds communities. I came up a product of the industry, watching the grit and sacrifice of the people who built this province — then I went and joined them. I worked on the tools as a glazier at BC's biggest new-construction window manufacturer, and my crew elected me the shop steward they trusted to speak for them.
The foundation
In my twenties, life turned toward faith and family. I married, raised three kids, and through every boom and bust we kept the house centered on the same two things: hard work and integrity. They're still the compass.
The career
For four decades I've driven business development across BC's economy — from mines to pipelines to the truck yards and rental counters in between. I've helped four founders grow their companies, two of them from nearly nothing, including a division I built from a standing start to $5M in its first full year and $7M at its peak. Along the way I built something worth more than any single deal: 500-plus real relationships with the owners, operators, and decision-makers who build this province.
The heart of the work
Here's what it comes down to: my passion is people. I've always seen business development as service — sharing what I have, making the connection that changes someone's year, and leaving every person and company better than I found them. That's the whole game.
The mission — Iron Bronco
Iron Bronco is four decades pointed in one direction: helping the people who actually build things. I bridge veteran wisdom and next-generation drive, and I bring owners the three things that move a business — work, people, and the systems to run it.
And that same instinct that moved gravel with a Tonka truck? It's pointed at your business now.