He grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, but spent most of his formative summers canoeing and camping at a remote wilderness summer camp called Keewaydin, in Northern Ontario. Keewaydin is the oldest continually operating summer camp in North America, and they take the wilderness experience seriously. He started as a camper there when he was 12 and joined the staff as soon as they would allow him. All told he spent nearly every summer of his youth in the wilderness, surrounded by people who would teach him the thrill of adventure and the satisfaction of accomplishing tremendous challenges. It was here that he truly learned that there is nothing one cannot accomplish if you put your mind, intuition and training to work for you. It was also here where he was fortunate enough to find the love of his life, the soul mate who would be a part of every adventure from that day forward. He attended Kent School in Connecticut for high school, and then Drew University. Throughout high school and university he continued to spend his summers at Keewaydin.
He graduated from Drew in 1993 with a degree in Political Science, and minors in Sociology and Religion. The religion minor came to him not through a deep spiritual sense, but because many of the ethics classes that he found fascinating fell under the religion department at Drew. The Poli-Sci degree came from a love of current events and for debating political theory. Neither have served to guide him professionally so much as shape him personally.
Following graduation, he spent most of a year living abroad working for British Telecom, an experience which mostly helped guide him away from big business. He spent much of his time in England traveling around Europe and the UK, while spending his summers leading canoe trips for kids at Keewaydin.
In 1994 he stopped for the night in Waitsfield, Vermont on his way home from a summer-long canoe trip and effectively never left. During the next year he helped renovate an old farmhouse, he worked as a ski-lift mechanic, and a liftie. The next year he was hired as a seasonal supervisor in guest services and eventually became a manager in Mountain Operations at Sugarbush Resort, where he remained for a total of 8 extremely satisfying and fun-filled years.
He left Sugarbush to take over as the Director of Keewaydin in 2001, a dream job really. He remained there for 4 years, during which time he worked hard to establish the camp as a charitable non-profit in the United States and Canada. He traveled extensively both recruiting for the camp and helping raise money for the fledgling non-profit.
In 2004 he became a licensed real estate agent, and later a broker at Bradley Brook Real Estate, where he remained for almost 10 years. In 2014 he opened his own real estate office in Waitsfield, Vermont. He strives every day to make sure that he compromises nothing in his effort to help prospective home buyers and sellers find exactly what they are looking for.
When he is not in the office he spends as much time as possible with his wife, Sarah and their two wonderful children. They are an outdoors-ey family, spending most of their spare time in search of adventure – hiking behind their house on the Catamount Trail, mountain biking at Blueberry Lake, skiing in their backyard playgrounds (Mad River Glen and Sugarbush), camping and canoeing in the Canadian Wilderness, and generally living in the outdoors.
He has been a member of the Warren Volunteer Fire Department over 20 years, he teaches kids to ski for the Fayston School Winter Sports program, and he serves on both the Fayston School Board of Directors and the Washington West Supervisory Union Executive Committee. Finally, but not lastly, he coaches his sons youth baseball team, which he is proud to say brought home the first ever State Championship to the Mad River Valley Little League during the spring of 2014.
Home Types:
Lot/Land, House, Condo, MultiFamily, Manufactured, Townhouse
Years of Experience:
17