I’m a business, marketing and creative strategy consultant to multiple start-ups and brands including Vans, and founder of boutique creative agency Arts + Science. Previous clients and projects include Nike, Adidas, Bluenote Records, LLama Inn, Incase, Journal Standard, Girl Skateboards, Crescent Down Works, Ebbets Field, Chocolate Skateboards, New Era, Casio, Tacos La Pina, and Blonde.

Previously, I was the founder and owner of DQM (Dave’s Quality Meat), a sneaker boutique and skate shop, and creator of The General, an original, boutique retail concept for global footwear brand, Vans. The high-profile store, an early pioneer of highly localized experiential style retail environments, became Vans’ second highest grossing store in the US within two years, and led to the launch of second and third East Coast locations in Boston and Brooklyn.

At heart - I’m a marketing creative who thinks like an entrepreneur. I’m a storyteller, and a student of marketing psychology and classic advertising. I live for the art of ideas, images, and headlines that fly, but I also know, from my own experience in entrepreneurship: good ideas plus good design equals good business.

I look for marketing and collaboration opportunities like an investor looks for stocks, and layer growth-mindset business strategy into developing creative and marketing strategies for stakeholders at all levels.

My experiences working in retail, marketing, and product design within the street fashion, footwear and skateboarding industries, both as an entrepreneur and consultant for both small and corporate brands, has given me a unique perspective on business and consumer psychology. I am at my best coming up with ideas to connect ‘cool’ to corporate, bridging gaps between small and large brands, and executing on creative that means something to the audiences who matter most.

I have been interviewed by ESPN (‘30 for 30’ airing 2023), my retail stores have been listed amongst the ‘Best Sneaker Stores in New York’ and ‘10 Most Influential Sneaker Boutiques in the Last 10 Years’, and sneakers I have helped design have been listed amongst the All Time Greatest Nike Air Max 90s and Top 50 Dunks of All Time.