My InvestmentS

Since leaving corporate mainstream in 2000, I've been really lucky to have become a serious student of business models, and have been introduced to thousands of business plans in almost every industry imaginable. To date I’ve invested in about 60 of them, before retiring from active angel investing in 2022. Point of information: the eight exits, from first funding to exit averaged a little under five years, my top three averaged about six years. Currently I'm in about 6 deals and am engaged in various degrees as they play out. Angel investing has been a special part of the journey for 23 years:  I wake up every morning and each day is different.  Angel investing has provided me the gift of experiential variety.  Since early 2019, I’ve leaned in big time of a local startup in the digital health space, called MediCardia.   

I've been chairman and lead investor in two startups that have been acquired by Fortune 500 companies: Internet retailer BUYSEASONS, which owns and manages the largest retailer of costumes in the world, BuyCostumes.com (sold to Liberty Media in 2006), and ModernMed, a healthcare services company, which was sold to DaVita in 2012. I was also the largest angel investor in Propeller Health, which was sold to ResMed.

My personal LLC is ETR Group, LLC, which previously owned and managed the world's largest Christmas-specific portal on the Internet, Christmas.com.

Current Investments