Now

Work

Running GAM Payments full-time. We're a wholesale ISO focused on payment infrastructure for mid-market and specialty merchants — particularly industries that mainstream processors won't serve. Our biggest brand is 2A Pay, the payment platform for the firearms industry.

Building out a Revenue as a Service (RaaS) model for independent service businesses — pest control, HVAC, home services. The idea: give small operators the demand gen, ops infrastructure, and working capital that normally only franchise chains can afford.

Sales is the top priority. Everything else is secondary.

Personal

Fort Lauderdale during the school year, Westfield NJ in the summer. On the water when weather allows. Working on getting back to 3 days a week in the office by January 2027 — not there yet.

Two boys, Ari and Jay. Wife Catherine runs a travel agency. We travel a lot — I'm United Gold, American Silver, mostly on the FLL-EWR corridor.

Reading / Thinking About

How AI agents change the payments infrastructure layer. Whether ISOs that don't build software become commodities by 2027. The embedded finance thesis — good in theory, messier in practice.

Not Doing Right Now

Not taking advisory roles. Not doing consulting. Not available for most coffee chats. If you want to talk about payments, high-risk merchant processing, or building a business — reach out.