I’m proud to say that I’ve spent my whole career in the construction industry, with the good fortune to learn from some incredible leaders along the way. I am shaped by the people who came before me.

Shepherd is the company I’ve always wanted to build. It is the rare combination of social good that can be created alongside a profitable and sustainable business model. We succeed only when our customers do.

The core services which support construction: finance, insurance, and legal are ready for new models in order to create incentives for using technology. In the end, everyone benefits.

Growing up in Toronto, I dreamt of becoming a doctor. But as I began University, I found myself drawn to entrepreneurship and the excitement of exploring new ideas. I realized I wanted to build things rather than heal them - so I taught myself to code.

At Shepherd, we have an enormous (and exciting!) technical challenge ahead of us, but when I think of the solutions we need to implement I always start with team. People before everything.

The construction industry has seen an amazing surge of new technology in the last decade, but we’re only still in the early innings.

I believe both the construction and insurance industries are at a critical inflection point. Both are vital to economic growth and prosperity, yet each are among the most antiquated and manual process-driven industries in the world.

Fostering new and emerging technologies to unlock advancements in safety and productivity is genuinely crucial.

Supporting this progress while also influencing a more agile and efficient insurance underwriting process makes the Shepherd mission so profoundly meaningful to me.