About Me

Focused on parental rights and fiscal responsibility.

I am a Grosse Pointe Park resident and lifelong Michigander who grew up in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, and graduated from the University of Detroit (Mercy). I am a father to three grown children, including a son who graduated from MSU, a daughter who graduated from the University of Michigan and the University of Detroit Mercy for her postgraduate degree, and a daughter who will be a junior at Wayne State in the fall. I also have three young grandchildren, two of whom are currently in elementary school in the Troy School District. I am an award-winning senior financial analyst with one of Detroit’s Big 3 automakers and oversee billion-dollar financial transactions on a regular basis.

My journey into local school board politics began in the spring of 2020, when I realized my local school board and administration had no plan to return students to the classroom in the fall of 2020 due to the COVID lockdown. I watched as local private and parochial schools, as well as schools just across the border in Macomb County, planned to reopen in September 2020 for face-to-face learning. I spent the better part of the next two years fighting to return students to the classroom late in April 2021 and then fighting to remove mask mandates that kept local students masked until February of 2022.

By June of 2022, Grosse Pointe Public Schools had lost 840 students, or 11% of their pre-COVID enrollment, and $9 million in fund equity despite receiving an $8 million COVID cash infusion from the state and federal governments. It was clear that new leadership was required. In January 2023, I was asked to join the Grosse Pointe Schools Finance and Facilities Committee, where I and several other local business people supported the new school board in right-sizing the district’s bloated budget and administration. By October 2023, I was appointed to the School Board, where I served until December of 2024, helping to restore fiscal responsibility to Grosse Pointe Schools and end the triple-digit enrollment losses of the prior three years.

As a member of the State Board of Education, I will be committed to restoring parental transparency and fiscal responsibility to the Michigan Department of Education. Michigan public schools have been on a steady decline over the last 25 years, going from a high of 14th to the current low of 44th in the nation. At the same time, school administration has ballooned by 95%, while the number of teachers has grown only 10%. These trends must stop and be reversed. I will return the focus to reading, writing, and math while ensuring that every tax dollar is spent wisely.