Founded on independent thinking.

I made my first investment at thirteen. After watching the 1987 movie Wall Street, I asked my father to help me put my weekly allowance into the Templeton Emerging Markets Fund, a little at a time, every month.

I have always been drawn to numbers, business, politics, and the idea that lasting wealth is built through discipline, research, and sound decisions, not speculation. I loved finding value other people had missed, whether it was an undersized wide receiver nobody else rated (Wayne Chrebet was my favorite player growing up) or a company the market had largely written off. I never liked following the crowd. I grew up thinking differently than the people around me, and that instinct never went away.

It was not always disciplined. As a young investor, I paid close attention to financial news, and it showed. I chased momentum, sold into fear, and made the kind of decisions that pattern produces: real losses, for reasons I could have avoided. Learning to tune that out took years, and it happened somewhere I did not expect.

By 2003, at twenty-one, I had earned a diploma in financial services from Fanshawe College and completed the Canadian Securities Course. The following year, I earned a diploma in financial planning from George Brown College and completed the Derivatives Fundamentals Course and Investment Management Techniques.

I still did not feel ready to manage other people’s money. I had not lived through a full market cycle. I did not yet understand risk, geopolitics, or how the forces that move markets connect to companies and to what a business is actually worth. So I went back to school, first for a business degree, then for a master’s in public policy, administration, and law.

My graduate research focused on public-private partnerships, a project delivery model the Canadian government had recently embraced through the Building Canada Plan. I chose the topic deliberately. A new federal agency, PPP Canada, was about to be created, and I positioned myself for the emerging field by studying it early and building relationships with the people shaping it. Six months after I graduated, that work led to a position at PPP Canada.

My professional career began there in 2010 because I had identified an important shift before it was widely recognized. That is the same instinct on which this firm is built. I simply did not have a name for it yet.

That early experience opened the door to a genuinely global career: project finance, procurement, and infrastructure investment across Ottawa, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Dubai, working alongside government and corporate leaders on thirteen major infrastructure projects with a combined value of more than twenty billion dollars.

Being in those rooms taught me something a screen or a research report cannot: how differently things look from the inside. I still read the same news and research as everyone else. I simply weigh it differently, knowing how much of it is written from the outside looking in. Other people’s views are a filter against which I test my own thinking, not the lead I follow.

My path to investment advice was not a conventional one. Financial analysis taught me how to evaluate the numbers; sixteen years of infrastructure work across different markets and political systems taught me how incentives, institutions, and people shape the outcomes behind them. It is a perspective that could only have been acquired through experience.

I am also a husband, a father, a homeowner, and a long-term investor in my own right. I have lived through market cycles that tested my patience, and I have made decisions I would make differently today. That experience is not incidental to how I advise clients. It informs the patience, perspective, and respect for risk I bring to every decision.

After sixteen years building infrastructure I am proud of, I wanted to return to what started this at thirteen: the discipline of finding value before the market recognizes it. Museum Park Capital is that return, built on two decades of watching how markets, governments, and people actually behave, and grounded in the patience I did not have at twenty-two but have now.

Clients can expect an approach that is independent but not impulsive, patient but not passive, and grounded in research rather than prediction and consensus. My objective is not to follow every market narrative. It is to understand what an investment is worth, what could prove the thesis wrong, and whether the potential reward justifies the risk.