Three decades of business. Ten years of restaurant ownership. A portfolio built one decision at a time. And now, the next chapter.
For three decades, I built a career leading major business and operations overhauls for some of the biggest companies in the world. I won't drown you in job titles and company names — what actually mattered is that I got very good at solving complicated problems for organizations that couldn't afford to get them wrong, and at leading teams across different countries and cultures to do it. I never once thought I'd spend my 50s relearning how to train, eat, and build wealth from scratch — but here we are.
That career took me to Singapore in my 30s, where I opened a regional office from nothing and learned what it actually takes to build a team and a culture in a place where nobody owes you anything. Around that same stretch of life, I also spent ten years running a restaurant — a completely different kind of pressure, where the lessons were about cash flow, customers, and showing up at 6am whether you felt like it or not. Few things teach you about people and money faster than the service industry, and I'd put those ten years up against any business degree.
On the financial side, I built things the way most people actually do — by doing, not by studying finance in school. Over the years that's meant buying and managing rental properties, building a stock portfolio, and more recently learning the ins and outs of crypto. Some of it worked well. Some of it taught me expensive lessons. All of it shows up in the Upgraded Wealth pillar, in plain language, the way I wish someone had explained it to me.
When I stepped back from the corporate grind, I noticed something: almost everything aimed at people over 50 was either too generic to be useful or too polished to be honest. Generic fitness content built for 25-year-olds. Wealth advice that assumed you were either already rich or starting from zero. Nothing that spoke to people who'd actually lived a full, varied life and wanted to build the next chapter of it well.
So I started documenting my own system instead — the training approach that took me from sedentary to 30 lbs leaner in 6 months, the real estate and investing decisions I make with my own money, the habits that keep my mind sharp, and the travel and lifestyle choices that make all of it worth doing. Prime Chapter is that documentation, made public.
This isn't a brand built by a 28-year-old influencer who read a few studies online. It's built by someone who has run a restaurant, built a portfolio one decision at a time, lived and worked on three continents, and led real teams through real pressure — and is now applying that same hands-on approach to his own body, money, and mind.
Your strongest chapter starts now. I'm building mine in public — and I'd like you to build yours alongside me.